Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History, Distinguished Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Director of Graduate Studies at the Clements Center for National Security at The University of Texas at Austin. Lawrence's research focuses on the history of 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. He has published extensively on the subjects of the Vietnam War and Cold War. Lawrence was the recipient of the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize and Paul Birdsall Prize for Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (2006)