Michael De Groot

About

Michael De Groot is an assistant professor of international studies at Indiana University Bloomington, where he is also faculty affiliate at the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute and Institute for European Studies.

De Groot’s research focuses on US and Russian foreign relations, economic statecraft, and the international history of the twentieth century. His first book, Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2024. His current book project examines the geoeconomics of containment during the Cold War.

He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Scholars Foundation. He received his PhD in history from the University of Virginia and his BA in history from Stanford University.