Jill Kastner is a London-based independent scholar and visiting fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. She received her master's in Soviet studies and doctorate in history from Harvard University, where she was a Krupp Foundation Fellow. She has written about Cold War crises in Berlin and the Middle East and contributed to The Nation and Foreign Affairs. She most recently served as executive editor of Hope and History: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times, by Ambassador William vanden Heuvel (2019).
