Career
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.
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