Luke A. Nichter — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as the James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies and Professor of History at Chapman University.
New York Times bestselling author or editor of eight books.
Filed a court case in 2009 that led to the declassification of most records concerning the Watergate break-ins case.
Authored "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968" (2023), which received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Authored "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War" (2020), which received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant.
Held visiting fellowships at institutions including the Norwegian Nobel Institute, University of Oxford, and London School of Economics.

Biography

Luke A. Nichter is the James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies and a Professor of History at Chapman University.

He specializes in the Cold War, the modern U.S. presidency, and U.

S. political and diplomatic history, with a particular focus on the period from John F. Kennedy through Watergate, often referred to as the "long 1960s.