Jeremy Adelman | |
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Born | 1960 (age 64–65) |
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Jeremy Adelman (born 1960) is an American historian who was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History [1] at Princeton University,Princeton,New Jersey,from 2014 to 2023. [2] He was also the director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University that was relocated to the Centre for Research in the Arts,Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge in 2023. Previously,he had served as the director of the Council for International Teaching and Research,the director of the Program in Latin American Studies and chair of the History Department at Princeton. His areas of scholarship include Latin American and global history.
Adelman obtained his BA in Political Economy from the University of Toronto in 1984,his MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics in 1985,and his DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1989. In Oxford,he was a member of St. Antony's College. [3]
He has taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Essex in England,the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Argentina,and at Princeton since 1992,and has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Institut d'études politiques (Paris),the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris),and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna). His current initiatives include the formation of the Global History Collaborative with colleagues in Berlin,Paris,and Tokyo. Adelman is currently working on two books,a history of global interdependence since the 1840s and a general history of Latin America. In 2023,Adelman retired from Princeton and relocated to the University of Cambridge together with the Global History Lab whose Director he remains. [4] He was elected to a fellowship at Darwin College. [5]
His awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship of the American Council for Learned Societies.
Adelman is also committed to creating and supporting connected and inclusive learning in fractured societies. He has written and presented courses in global history on various platforms,Coursera,NovoEd,and EdX under the Global History Lab. The initiative branched in September 2016,in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Geneva,to outreach programs to refugees in Kenya,Jordan,Rwanda and Uganda. [6] [7] The GHL now integrates a full-year curriculum of three courses in global history,oral history and documentary methods,and supervised research projects for students worldwide. In 2020,it ceased to be a MOOC and became a network program shared across 25 institutions (universities,NGO's,foundations,and civic activist groups) in 23 countries. Tens of thousands of students have completed GHL courses from Vietnam,Bangladesh,and Germany to Colombia,Greece and Nigeria.
Adelman is married to Deborah Prentice,the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge;they have three children. [8]
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