Daniel Chardell is an America in the World Consortium Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University, where his research focuses on twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations, the Middle East, and the Cold War.

Drawing on U.S. archives and Arabic-language materials, his dissertation uses the Gulf War of 1991 as a lens through which to explore contending American and Arab visions of post-Cold War Middle Eastern order.

Alongside his studies, he worked as a research assistant to Robert Zoellick in preparation of Zoellick’s book, America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Prior to Harvard, he was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Michigan.