Julia Irwin is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale University. Her research focuses on the histories of U.S. foreign assistance and international humanitarianism. She is the author of Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening and Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century. She is also a founding co-editor of the book series InterConnections: The Global 20th Century and a founding co-editor of the Journal of Disaster Studies.
