GRACE under Pressure John Baldoni GRACE under pressure: John Baldoni with Cathal J. Nolan
Cathal J. Nolan is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Professor of History and Director of the International History Institute at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.
Cathal’s newest book is Mercy: Humanity in War. He also is the author of 14 books of diplomatic and military history. The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars are Won and Lost (Oxford 2017), received the Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History. It was also the first winner of the Distinguished Book Award from War on the Rocks. Nolan has guest lectured at various universities across the United States and internationally. He has also spoken to the Chautauqua Institute, Marine Corps University, National World War II Museum, New York Historical Society, New York Military Affairs Symposium, Smithsonian Journeys (Normandy), U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, U.S. Army War College, National Intelligence University Alumni Association, World Affairs Forum, Center for Military and Diplomatic History, and run a training course for young diplomats at the MoFA in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2011.
He has been interviewed on CBS Radio, Radio Free Europe, Newstalk (Ireland), BBC Mundo, PBS, C-Span, New Books Network, The East-West Institute, The Dead Prussian and Dangerous History. He consults on military history to the PBS science series NOVA, and is principal military history adviser to the American Heritage Museum. His teaching has won multiple awards, at different universities. His overseas community service started as a volunteer teacher for two years in rural northern Nigeria, with the Canadian University Service Overseas. He returned to development work as faculty adviser to BU Global Water Brigade and Public Health Brigade, leading five student groups to Honduras to build potable water pipelines and infrastructure in arid, isolated mountain villages.