Dr. Ted R. Bromund was born in Wooster, Ohio. He received his BA from Grinnell College in Iowa in 1991, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999, where he was advised by Prof. Paul Kennedy, for a thesis on the first British application to the EEC. From 1999 to 2008, he was the Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale, which emphasizes teaching and research in international, diplomatic, and strategic history, and grand strategy. In that capacity, he was responsible for event planning and organization, report and grant writing, fundraising, and fellowship programs.

He was also a Lecturer in History, and, from 2004, a Lecturer in International Affairs, with responsibility for designing, administering, and teaching the core security studies curriculum in Yale’s International Relations MA program. He spoke regularly to campus, alumni, and other audiences on historical and contemporary topics, has published articles and reviews in a variety of scholarly journals, and is a regular commentator on current affairs in Commentary and the Yorkshire Post (UK). Bromund is also the author of the book chapter, "A Just War: Tony Blair and the End of Saddam's Iraq," in The Blair Legacy: Politics, Policy, Governance, and Foreign Affairs (2009).