Steven J. Brady

Steve Brady is a historian of international relations and the military and society, with special research interests in religion and foreign relations, German-American relations, US relations with the Vatican, early United States foreign relations, and paradiplomacy. He also has research and teaching interests in military and society (especially religion and disability) and U.S. peace movements.

His book Eisenhower and Adenauer: Alliance Maintenance under Pressure (Lexington/Harvard Cold War Studies), examines the West German-American relationship in a crucial decade of the Cold War. His next book was Chained to History: Slavery and United States Foreign Relations to 1865 (Cornell University Press, 2022).

His most recent book, Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War, was published in November 2025 by Cambridge University Press in the Series “Military, War, and Society in Modern American History.” His current projects are: "Reason of States: Governors, Federalism, and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy," which seeks to put diplomatic history into conversation with political science and international relations theory scholarship on paradiplomacy; and “Adlai Stevenson: Liberalism and the Burdens of Leadership,” (under advance contract with University of Illinois Press), the first biography of the mid-century politician and statesman in over thirty years.

Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington, he taught at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a First Year academic advisor for seventeen years. While at Notre Dame, he was honored with three teaching awards, including the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He serves as the undergraduate advisor in the Department.