William Michael Schmidli is a historian of the United States in the twentieth century. He is the author of two award-winning books, Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022) and The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and US Cold War Policy toward Argentina (Cornell University Press, 2012). Schmidli is an associate professor in the Institute for History at Leiden University.
