# Steven M. Press Research Fellow, WIGH WCFIA Graduate Student Associate PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University person location\_on 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138 smartphone [617-496-3586](tel:617-496-3586) email Steven Press holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (2014). He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. In 2014-2015 he was a College Fellow in History at Harvard; in 2015-2016 he was Research Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He was formerly a Dissertation Fellow and Graduate Student Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Global History Initiative, a Graduate Student Affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Fellow. Steven's research interests are European sovereignty, international relations, and the development of the treaty system. His first book, *Rogue Empires: Conmen and Contracts Behind Europe's Scramble for Africa* (forthcoming Spring 2017 with Harvard University Press), draws on archival work in ten countries and three languages. The manuscript offers a new approach to understanding the European Scramble for Africa by examining one of its forgotten projects: empires run by companies and individual adventurers. In a recent article in the *Journal of Modern History,* Steven has uncovered the exchanges between Germany, China, and Cuba that led to the USA's lease for Guantanamo Bay in 1903. - ## Subject [Capitalism](/filter_by/capitalism) [International Relations](/subject/international-relations) [Political Economy](/filter_by/political-economy) [Statehood](/filter_by/statehood) - ## Region/Country [United States](/filter_by/united-states) - ## People [Past Affiliates](/people/alumni) - ## Era/Date [Contemporary](/eradate/contemporary)