Biographie

Nicholas Mulder is Assistant Professor of Modern European History in the Department of History at Cornell University. A specialist in European and international history since the nineteenth century, his research covers political, economic, legal and intellectual history, with a particular focus on the period of the world wars between 1914 and 1945.

His first book, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (Yale University Press, 2022) examines the origins of economic sanctions in the interwar period. Mulder is currently writing a second book, The Age of Confiscation, which deals with the international history of expropriation. The book focuses on the process of property creation and acquisition as part of the great transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and examines how large-scale asset transfers have been a vital force in the political and economic history of capitalist democracies.

Nicholas Mulder studied at Utrecht University College and Cambridge University. He completed his doctorate at Columbia University.