Pieter M. Judson is Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2014 to 2024, he held the Chair in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History at the European University Institute. Before that he taught for 21 years at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations. Judson holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (1987). He has authored articles and prize-winning books on diverse aspects of the history of Central and Eastern Europe. Most recently, The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard-Belknap, 2016), has been translated into twelve European and Asian languages.

In 2025 Oxford University Press will publish The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (written together with Tara Zahra). For ten years Judson served as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook, and he was President of the Central European History Society of North America (2020-2022). He has received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, the American Academy in Berlin, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize for Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard 2006).