Jill Kastner

JILL KASTNER, AM ’92, regional studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, PhD ’99, history, is an independent scholar and historian based in London. She is a visiting research fellow in the War Studies Department at King’s College London, where she focuses on international relations from the Cold War to the present with an emphasis on intelligence and subversive activities. She has contributed book chapters on various Cold War crises, including Suez and Berlin, and written for The Nation and Foreign Affairs. She served as the executive editor and collaborator for Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times, the political memoir of Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel. She is the co-author (with William C. Wohlforth) of A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion (Oxford University Press, 2025). She also holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AM in Soviet Studies from Harvard.