Cornell Research

Expertise

Modern German history, particularly governance, military, and legal; history of international law

Current Research Interest

History of the diplomacy and international law governing state aggression before 1914

Distinction

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Max Weber Stiftung-Historisches Kolleg Prize for Lifetime Achievement in German History and Studies
Visiting Astor Professor, Oxford University
American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit (for A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War)
American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Award (for Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815)
German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize (for Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany)
Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award (for Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany)
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best History Book 1996 (for Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815)

Selected Publications

Hull, Isabel V. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law in the First World War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Hull Isabel V. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

Cornell Research Website Article

Permissible War