Dr. Boyd van Dijk  is a Senior Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire of Sciences Po, working on the ERC Advanced Grant project "The Global War on Civilians: 1905–1945", led by Professor Sheldon Garon.

Dr. Boyd van Dijk is an historian of the international order and is working on a new book (now under contract with OUP) recovering a global history of the ideas and practice of international law. He is also interested in questions of arms control and the governance of blockades and air bombing campaigns.

He was a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford. 

He is the author of the prize-winning monograph Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions (OUP), and has written articles for Past & Present, the Law and History Review, and the American Journal of International Law.