Bryan Burgett is a historian in training, essayist, and author. He is currently a candidate for a Master’s degree in American history at Northern Illinois University. His work focuses on American political and economic history from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on diplomatic history, especially the Cold War, and on United States foreign policy and grand strategy in support of liberal international institutions and Western alliances. He also writes occasional essays on current events from a classical liberal, “Burkean anarchist” perspective grounded in a humanist and consequentialist moral outlook. In his fiction, he explores alternative-history and speculative futures shaped by dramatically different historical timelines, with a particular interest in their cultural and social consequences and the human experience within them.
He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, and a B.A. from Northern Illinois University. Previously, he advised hospitals and health systems as a transactions specialist and strategist, drawing on 30 years in the United States healthcare industry and work on more than 150 mergers and acquisitions and related transactions. He is a licensed Illinois attorney with experience spanning strategy, corporate finance, and transactional law in healthcare.