Mark Atwood Lawrence is Professor of History, Distinguished Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Faculty Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at The University of Texas at Austin. Within the Council for Global Cooperation, he is a member of the Board of Governors.

His research interests, include U.S. Foreign Relations, the Vietnam War, International History and Decolonization. After teaching as a lecturer in history at Yale, Lawrence joined the History Department at UT Austin in 2000. He has published three books: Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005), The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Oxford University Press, 2008), and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (Princeton University Press, 2021). 

His edited works, include The Vietnam War:  An International History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 2014), Nation-States and the Global Environment:  New Studies in International Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2013), Beyond the Cold War:  Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2014), Beyond the Eagle’s Shadow:  New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War (University of New Mexico Press, 2014), and The United States and the World:  A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror (Princeton University Press, 2014). 

Lawrence is the recipient of the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize (2006); winner of President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award (2005); winner of the Silver Spurs Centennial Teaching Fellowship (2019); winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Historians of American Foreign Relations (2022); winner of the Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (2022). He received his BA from Stanford University (1988) and doctorate from Yale University (1999).