Timothy
Naftali is associate professor at the University of Virginia and director
of the Presidential Recordings Program and Kremlin Decision-Making Project
at U.Va.’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. His research focuses
on: the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the history of intelligence in Europe
and America, the presidency of John F. Kennedy, and World War II and Nazi
war crimes. Trained as a historian, Timothy Naftali writes political histories
on the Cold War, World War II, and espionage. Before coming to the Miller
Center, he was a visiting assistant professor at Yale University, where
he taught courses on intelligence, international relations, and the Cold
War in the Third World.
Naftali serves as a consultant to the Imperial Japanese and Nazi War Criminal
Records Interagency Working Group, an effort established by Congress to
facilitate the declassification of all official records pertaining to
U.S. knowledge of Nazi war crimes and the fate of Nazi war criminals.