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Christopher McKnight Nichols is the director of the Center for the Humanities and an associate professor at Oregon State University. He is author or editor of four books, most notably Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age. Nichols is co-editor and co-author, with David Milne and Danielle Holtz, at work on the forthcoming Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy: A New History.
