Carl Strikwerda is the author of “The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order: From the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War”, published by Palgrave Macmillan in London in 2025. He is the co-editor or author of four books and 30 articles, review essays, and essays in edited volumes on European and global history. His research has been supported by grants from GMF, the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Strikwerda is a former president of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William and Mary. He taught at William and Mary, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Kansas.
Strikwerda has served as an historical consultant to the National WWI Museum, as a member of the executive committee of the Council for European Studies, and as a board member of WITF public radio and TV station. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan.