CISAC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, E214
Stanford, CA 94305

David.Holloway@stanford.edu
(650) 723-1737 (voice)
(650) 723-0089 (fax)

Expertise
Russia/Soviet Union; nuclear proliferation; U.S. foreign policy

Languages
English, Russian

David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, a professor of political science, and an FSI senior fellow. He was co-director of CISAC from 1991 to 1997, and director of FSI from 1998 to 2003. His research focuses on nuclear proliferation; the international history of nuclear weapons; and science and technology in the Soviet Union/Russia. His book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 11 best books of 1994, and it won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He also wrote The Soviet Union and the Arms Race and co-authored The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment.

Since joining the Stanford faculty in 1986, Holloway has served as chair and co-chair of the International Relations Program (1989-1991), and as associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences (1997-1998). Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of Lancaster (1967-1970) and the University of Edinburgh (1970-1986). Born in Dublin, Ireland, he received his undergraduate degree in modern languages and literature, and his PhD in social and political sciences, both from Cambridge University.