Marc J. Selverstone is an associate professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, where he transcribes and annotates the secret White House recordings of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He teaches courses on U.S. diplomatic history, World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War in UVa's Corcoran Department of History.

After receiving his B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, Selverstone taught history for four years at Darien High School in Connecticut. He then earned a Master of International Affairs degree at Columbia University and a Ph.D. in U.S. foreign relations from Ohio University.

He is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950 (Harvard, 2009) and The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (Harvard, forthcoming); co-editor of The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, vol. 5 (W.W. Norton, forthcoming) and The Vietnam Tapes: Lyndon B. Johnson, July 1964-July 1965 (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming); and editor of "The Politics of Troop Withdrawal," a special issue of the journal Diplomatic History (Blackwell, 2010).

Selverstone lectures frequently to teachers' groups throughout the nation and has led several initiatives at UVa's Miller Center geared toward secondary school education. He is the former executive editor of AmericanPresident.org, was co-editor of the online and print versions of UVa's Multimedia Guide to the U.S. and Virginia Standards of Learning, and directs the Digital Classroom Initiative for the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program.

His writings have appeared in Social Education, the OAH Magazine of History, the Boston Globe, the Encyclopedia of the American Foreign Policy, and the Encyclopedia of the Cold War.