ABOUT

Susan Baker is an independent historian specializing in the Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 and the Herzegovina insurgency that ignited it. Her work recovers the perspective of the insurgents themselves — the local commanders, networks, and political aspirations that drove and sustained the uprising — a view long overshadowed by the diplomacy of the great powers.

She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she also received the Harriman Institute Certificate in East Central European Studies.

From 1997 to 2013, she participated in election monitoring and training missions across southeastern Europe with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, working in Bosnia, Ukraine, Belarus, Macedonia, Albania, and Armenia.

She is currently completing a study of the Eastern Crisis from the insurgent perspective, and is at work on an English translation of Milorad Ekmečić’s Ustanak u Bosni — 1875–1878.