Dr. Sahr Conway-Lanz is an historian and archivist who has wanted to be Curator of the Swarthmore Peace Collection ever since he conducted dissertation research in the amazing collection years ago. His research focuses on human rights and the problems of war and violence. He is the author of the book Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity After World War II  (2006). His article in Diplomatic History  "Beyond No Gun Ri: Refugees and the United States Military in the Korean War" won the 2006 Bernath Article Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.

He has served as a manuscript historian in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress where he curated over 700 collections in the area of U.S. international relations including the papers of Madeleine Albright, Woodrow Wilson, and Henry Ford's Peace Plan. He has also worked as an archivist at Yale University, the National Archives and Records Administration, and Bryn Mawr College. He has a Ph.D. in the history of American foreign relations from Harvard University, where he also taught as a lecturer in the History Department. He received his B.A. in history from Stanford University.