Ernest May

Ernest May has been a professor of History since 1963 at Harvard University and Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard since 1981. In 1969-72, he was Dean of Harvard College and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was Director of Harvard's Institute of Politics from 1971 to 1974, Chairman of the Department of History from 1976 to 1979, and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History from 1995 to 1998. Professor May is the author of Thinking in Time: Uses of History for Decision Makers (with Richard E. Neustadt, 1986), American Cold War Strategy: Explaining NSC 68 (1993); The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (with Philip D. Zelikow, 1997); and Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France (2000). Professor May has been a consultant at various times to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the National Intelligence Council, the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and committees of the Congress.