Jeremy Adelman | |
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Born | 1960 (age 64–65) |
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Discipline | History |
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Jeremy Adelman, FBA (born 1960) is a Canadian historian who was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History [1] at Princeton University,Princeton,New Jersey,from 2014 to 2023, [2] before moving to the University of Cambridge,UK. He is the director of the Global History Lab at the Centre for Research in the Arts,Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge. Previously,he 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 B.A. in political economy from the University of Toronto in 1984,his M.Sc. in economic history from the London School of Economics in 1985,and his D.Phil. in modern history from the University of Oxford in 1989. At 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's forthcoming book (early 2026,Princeton University Press),is provisionally titled Depending on Strangers:Love and Fear in the Making of the Modern World. He is currently working on a history of Latin America and the history of human security. In 2023,Adelman retired from Princeton and relocated to the University of Cambridge together with the Global History Lab. [4] In 2024,was elected to a fellowship at Darwin College. [5] In 2025,he was elected to be a Fellow of the British Academy. [6]
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. [7] [8] 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. [9]