Gareth Stedman Jones | |
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Born | 17 December 1942 |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | St Paul's School Lincoln College, Oxford (MA) Nuffield College, Oxford (DPhil) |
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Discipline | History |
Institutions | Queen Mary,University of London |
Main interests | History of Ideas |
Gareth Stedman Jones FBA (born 17 December 1942) is an English academic and historian. [1] As Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary,University of London,he deals particularly with working-class history and Marxism. [2]
Educated at St Paul's School and Lincoln College,Oxford,where he graduated in history in 1964,Stedman Jones went on to Nuffield College,Oxford to take a DPhil in 1970.[ citation needed ]
He moved to Cambridge in 1974,becoming a fellow of King's College,Cambridge,and in 1979,a lecturer in history. He was a research fellow at Nuffield College,Oxford,from 1967 to 1970,a senior associate member of St Antony's College,Oxford,in 1971–1972,and an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow,Department of Philosophy,Goethe University,Frankfurt in 1973–1974,before becoming a lecturer in history at Cambridge in 1979–1986 and a reader in history of social thought there in 1986–1997. [3] He has served as co-director of the Centre for History and Economics at King's since 1991 and held the post of professor of political science from 1997 to 2010. [4] In 2010 Stedman Jones became Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary,University of London. [5]
From 1964 to 1981 Stedman Jones served on the editorial board of the New Left Review . He was a joint founder of the History Workshop Journal in 1976.[ citation needed ]
In 2018,reviewing Stedman Jones's intellectual evolution,historian Terence Renaud described a "journey from the New Left,through French structuralism,to a contextualist practice of intellectual history that leaves Marxism behind." [6]
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