Isabel Virginia Hull (born 1949) is John Stambaugh Professor Emerita of History and the former chair of thehistory department atCornell University. She specializes in German history from 1700 to 1945, with a focus on sociopolitics, political theory, and gender/sexuality. Since January 2006, Hull has served on the editorial board of theJournal of Modern History.

Hull received her B.A. from theUniversity of Michigan in 1970 and her Ph.D. fromYale University in 1978. She teaches courses on Europeanfascism,World War I, German history 1648–present, andinternational law.

The position for which Hull is best known, embodied in her two most recent books, is that Germany before and during World War I was uniquely indifferent to international law among the great powers, and (contrary to established historiography) that its responsibility for bringing the war about was much greater than that of theAllied powers. In 2014, Hull publishedA Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War, analyzing the Alliedblockade of Germany. The book was criticized by other historians for failing "to take considerations of morality and, perhaps more importantly, legitimacy [of the blockade] into account".^[1][2]

Michael Geyer of the University of Chicago has stated that "Isabel V. Hull is one of the most accomplished German historians and surely the best of her generation," and she has been described byVICE News as "one of America's leading scholars on the role of fascism in history."^[3] She is a winner of theRalph Waldo Emerson Award and theLeo Gershoy Award (1996), is a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been aGuggenheim Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural International Research Support Prize by the Max Weber Stiftung and the Historisches Kolleg.

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• The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982.
• Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
• Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
• A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

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