Emma Rothschild

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Emma Rothschild

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Born
Emma Georgina Rothschild

(1948-05-16) 16 May 1948 (age 75)
Education Somerville College, Oxford (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Occupation(s) Economist and economic historian
Employer(s) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Cambridge
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Spouse
(m. 1991)
Parent Victor Rothschild (father)
Relatives Rothschild family
Rothschild banking family of England

Emma Georgina Rothschild CMG (born 16 May 1948) is a British economic historian, a professor of history at Harvard University. She is director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard, and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. She formerly served as board member of United Nations Foundation and as a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. [1]

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She is a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a trustee of the Rothschild Archive, [2] the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.

Early life and education

Rothschild was born in London, England, the daughter of Victor Rothschild (1910–1990) and his second wife, Teresa Georgina Rothschild (née Mayor; 1915–1996). On her father's side, she descends from the Rothschild family. Her maternal grandfather, Robert John Grote Mayor, was the brother of English novelist F. M. Mayor and a great-nephew of philosopher and clergyman John Grote. Her maternal grandmother, Katherine Beatrice Meinertzhagen, was the sister of soldier Richard Meinertzhagen and the niece of author Beatrice Webb. [3] She is the sister of Amschel Mayor James Rothschild and the half-sister of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. At the age of 15, she became the youngest woman ever admitted to Somerville College, Oxford, from which she graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1967. She was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Professorships

From 1978 to 1988, she was an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She then was a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and continues to be an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the Cambridge History faculty. [4]

Academic achievements, awards and honours

In recognition of her services to Britain's international cultural and academic relations, Rothschild was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year Honours 2000. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. [5] She is a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. [6]

She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. [7]

Personal life

In 1991, Rothschild married the Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.

Publications

She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Some of her publications are:

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References

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  2. Rothschild. "Research Project: project description". Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  3. Noel Annan and James Ferguson (31 May 1996). "Obituary: Teresa, Lady Rothschild - People - News". The Independent. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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  5. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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  7. "Emeritus and Honorary Fellows". Somerville College, Oxford . Retrieved 26 August 2018.