ADEN KNAAP Curriculum vitae

Department of History +1 617-949-1998 Harvard University [email protected] Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street scholar.harvard.edu/knaap Cambridge, MA 02138 @adenknaap

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Harvard University, History 2018– Dissertation: “Judging the World: International Courts and the Legal Origins of World Organization, 1899–1966” Adviser: David Armitage (Harvard); Committee Members: Samuel Moyn (Yale); Charles S. Maier (Harvard); Arnulf Becker Lorca (Harvard Law School)

A.M. Harvard University, History 2018 Fields: International and Global History, 1500–1900 (David Armitage) Britain and the British Empire, 1750–2000 (Maya Jasanoff) Legal History and the History of International Law (Samuel Moyn) The Global Twentieth Century (Odd Arne Westad)

L.L.B. (equivalent to a J.D.) Sydney Law School, Law 2016

B.A. (Honors I) University of Sydney, History 2014 Honors thesis: “Apart Altogether from Idealistic Sentiments: Domesticating the League of Nations in Australia, 1920–1939” Adviser: Glenda Sluga

VISITING POSITIONS

Visiting Researcher, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of 2019–2020 Amsterdam Research Affiliate, Department of History, University of Sydney 2019–2022 Research Associate, Laureate Research Program in International History, 2015–2016 University of Sydney Exchange Student, Department of History, University College London 2012

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND RESEARCH GRANTS

Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, The Society for Historians of 2020 American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Mellon Foundation International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), Social 2019–2020 Science Research Council (SSRC) Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Center 2019–2020 for European Studies Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical Association 2019 Mid-dissertation Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 2019 Jens Aubrey Westengard Fellowship, Harvard University 2019 Summer Research Travel Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American 2019 Studies (declined) John Clive Fellowship, Harvard University 2019/2018 Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching Award, Bok Center for 2019/2018 Teaching and Learning, Harvard University Deakin-Royce Graduate Research Fellowship, Harvard University 2019/2017 Foreign Language Study Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 2017 Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University 2016–2019 John Woolley Scholarship, University of Sydney 2016–2019 Nathan J. Perilman Fellowship in Judaic Studies, Duke University (declined) 2016–2021 Foreign Language Study Grant, History Department, Harvard University 2016 Venour V. Nathan Prize, University of Sydney 2015 Judicial Conference of Australia Scholarship in Social Justice, University of Sydney 2015 Levey and Alexander Endowment for Law, University of Sydney 2014 Australasian Pioneers’ Club Research Grant, University of Sydney 2014 Venour V. Nathan Prize, University of Sydney (highly commended) 2014 Australasian Pioneers’ Club Scholarship, University of Sydney (declined) 2014 Sydney Southeast Asia Centre Scholarship, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre 2013 International Exchange Scholarship, University of Sydney 2012 Academic Excellence Award, University of Sydney 2010 Entry Scholarship, University of Sydney 2010 Francis Killeen Prize, University of Sydney 2009

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles “The Hague System: World Organization, International Law, and Arbitration at the Three Hague Peace Conferences, 1899–1920” (article in preparation). “Domesticating Internationalism: The League of Nations in Interwar Australia” (article in preparation). (with Dr. Narrelle Morris) “When Institutional Design is Flawed: Problems of Cooperation at the United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1943–48,” European Journal of International Law 28 no. 2 (2017): 513–534. “‘A Particularly Complicated Kind of Imperialism:’ The Imperialism of Nineteenth-Century Russia,” History in the Making 1 no. 1 (2012): 12-18.

Book Reviews “Seeing beyond the League: A History of International Organization,” Review of Simon Jackson and Alanna O’Malley (eds.), “The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations,” H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, April 27, 2019. Review of Nick Turse, “Kill Anything That Moves,” Not Even Past: The Blog of the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, April 4, 2017.

Online “Reintegrating Apartheid into Post-War Global History: An Interview with Jamie Miller,” Toynbee Prize Foundation (TPF) Blog, December 20, 2017. “Time and Space in the History of Globalism: An Interview with Or Rosenboim,” TPF Blog, November 30, 2017. “How to Start an Empire: An Interview with Steven Press,” TPF Blog, October 4, 2017. “Acts of Faith: Talking Law, Colonialism, and Religion with Anna Su,” TPF Blog, August 21, 2017. “Human Rights and the Global South: An Interview with Steven Jensen,” TPF Blog, July 17, 2017. Report on the Workshops “Sites of International Memory” and “Documenting UNESCO in Australia,” Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, August 19–21, 2015, Cosmopolites: The Blog of the Laureate Research Program in International History, September 17, 2015. “The UN Secretary General,” United Nations History Project, October 23, 2016. “Family Matters: Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Australia,” Honest History, December 2, 2014.

Podcasts Collaborating Historian, “Skeletons of Empire”, History Lab Podcast (December 12, 2018).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Papers Presented “Judging the Americas: The Views from Havana, The Hague, and Geneva” paper presented at “The League of Nations Decentred: Law, Crises, and Legacies,” Laureate Program in International Law, Melbourne Law School, July 18, 2019. “International Courts and International Law, 1899–1946” paper presented at “The League of Nations and International Law,” University of Copenhagen, June 13, 2019. “Legal Internationalisms” paper presented at “Nationalism and Internationalism in the Historical Imagination,” Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, South Korea, November 17, 2018. “A League of Courts,” paper presented at “International Law: Courts and Contexts,” PhD Summer School, Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, June 18, 2018. “A Court by Another Name: What if the Court of Arbitral Justice had been formed?” paper presented at “Contingency in the Course of International Law: How International Law Could Have Been,” Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, June 15, 2018. “Between League, Nation, and Empire: Domesticating Internationalism in Interwar Australia,” paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., February 25, 2017. “Between League and Empire: League of Nations Activism in Interwar Australia,” paper presented at the symposium “League of Nations: Histories, Legacies and Impact,” University of Melbourne, December 11, 2015. “Documenting the History of UNESCO in Australia,” invited paper at the “Sites of International Memory” workshops, University of Sydney and University of Melbourne, August 21, 2015. “From Distant Cattle Station to Lonely Bush: League of Nations Activism in Interwar Australia,” paper presented at the Australasian Association for European History XXIV Biennial Conference, University of Newcastle, July 15, 2015.

Conferences and Panels Organized Organizer, 2019 Toynbee Prize Foundation Lecture by Prof. Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University), “Law and Conquest in World History,” American Historical Association, 133rd Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 4, 2019. Organizer, panel on “Fighting Global Inequality” at the American Historical Association, 132nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January X, 2018. Co-organizer (with Prof. Penny Russell, chair of Australian studies, Harvard University), conference on “New Histories of Class,” Harvard University, April 21–22, 2017. Organizing committee, “Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora,” 17th Harvard Graduate Conference on International History, Harvard University, March 9–10, 2017.

Invited Comments Comment on Anna Su (University of Toronto), “The Rise and Fall of Universal Civil Jurisdiction,” Harvard International & Global History Seminar, Harvard University, April 5, 2017. Comment on Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University), “Durability: A History of the Future, 1869– 1912,” Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar, Harvard University, April 3, 2017. Comment on Liliana Obregón (University of Los Andes Law School), “Writing International Legal History during the Long Nineteenth Century: Lawyers as Global Historians, 1750–1900,” Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar, Harvard University, November 14, 2016. Comment on Lisa Ford (University of New South Wales), “Keeping the Peace in the Shadow of War: The British Empire and Order circa 1763,” Harvard International & Global History Seminar, Harvard University, September 21, 2016.

TEACHING

Teaching Assistant “The War in Vietnam,” Prof. Fredrik Logevall, Department of History, Spring 2019 Harvard University “The British Empire,” Prof. Maya Jasanoff, Committee on General Education, Fall 2018 Harvard University

Research Supervision Undergraduate thesis reader, Harvard University 2019

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE

Executive Director, Toynbee Prize Foundation 2017–19 Co-organizer, Center for European Studies Graduate Research Workshop, 2018–19 Harvard University Research Assistant to Prof. Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento 2016–17 Law Clerk, Linklaters LLP, London 2013–14 Research Assistant to Profs. Glenda Sluga, Miranda Johnson; John Gagné; and 2014–16 Ryan Griffith, all University of Sydney

AFFILIATIONS

Member, American Historical Association, 2018– Member, North American Conference on British Studies, 2018– Member, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2018– Member, American Society for Legal History, 2019–