Priya Satia

Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and the author of Time's Monster: How History Makes History

Recent Articles

The British Monarchy Helped Mortgage Our Collective Future

Queen Elizabeth II's death should bring about a reckoning in understanding how the British Empire helped destroy the planet

By Priya Satia September 12, 2022

History's Warning for the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather than a source of security

By Priya Satia April 27, 2021

The Problem With Waiting for History to Judge the Present

The idea that history will judge can be used rhetorically by any side in a contest

By Priya Satia October 20, 2020

We Can't Tell Kamala Harris' Story Without the British Empire. We Can't Tell America's Without It Either

Kamala Harris can be seen not just as a quintessentially American politician but also part of a global history, argues scholar Priya Satia

By Priya Satia August 19, 2020

How the End of World War I Brought the Beginning of Drone Warfare

Postwar Cabinet assessments concluded that airpower had found greatest application in the Middle Eastern theaters of the war

By Priya Satia November 8, 2018

What the Firearms Industry's History Teaches Us About Mass Shootings

The global history of gun manufacturing has serious implications for the situation today

By Priya Satia April 10, 2018
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