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Academic

Brendan Peter Simms (born 1967, Dublin)^[1] is a Professor of the history of international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Early life

Brendan Simms is the son of Anngret and David Simms, a professor of mathematics.^[2] He is also a grand-nephew of Brian Goold-Verschoyle, a member of the Communist Party of Ireland, who became a Soviet spy and died in a Soviet gulag in 1942.^[2]

Simms was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith.^[2] He studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in 1986,^[3] before completing his doctoral dissertation, Anglo-Prussian relations, 1804–1806: The Napoleonic Threat, at Peterhouse, Cambridge, under the supervision of Tim Blanning in 1993.^[1]

Career

Simms became a Fellow of Peterhouse and now also serves as Professor of the History of European International Relations at the Univ