Peter Baldwin (professor)

Peter Baldwin
Peter Baldwin
Born	(1956-12-22) December 22, 1956 (age 68)
Occupation	Professor & philanthropist

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956) ^[1] is a research professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, and a philanthropist. ^[2]

Early life

Baldwin's parents were the medieval historians Jenny Jochens and John W. Baldwin. ^{[3] : 450}

Academic career

He was educated at Harvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), and Yale (BA Philosophy and History, 1978). ^[4] He has written several books on the comparative history of Europe and America.

Baldwin also serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, ^[5] the American Council of Learned Societies, ^[6] the Central European University, ^[7] and as chair of the board of the Center for Jewish History. ^[8]

Philanthropy

With his wife Lisbet Rausing, who is an heir of the Tetra Pak fortune, Baldwin co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001. The Fund has given away over $1 billion to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access. ^[9]

Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, ^[10] The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library ^[11] and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund.

Baldwin joined the advisory board of the Wikimedia Endowment in 2016. ^[12] Baldwin and Rausing gave $5 million to the Wikimedia Endowment in 2017 ^[13] and are listed among the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation. ^[14]

Publications

• The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)
• Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005)
• The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009) ^[15]
• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014) ^[16]
• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (MIT Press 2021)
• Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled so Differently across the Globe (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All (The MIT Press, 2023) ^[17]

References

1. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding Library of Congress Linked Data Service :  linked authority record n88275684 .
2. "Peter Baldwin | UCLA History". history.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
3. McCormick, Michael. "John W. Baldwin, 13 July 1929. 8 February 2015" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 160 (4): 450–55.
4. "Peter Baldwin". UCLA. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
5. "The New York Public Library Board of Trustees". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
6. "ACLS Board of Directors". ACLS. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
7. "Board of Trustees | Central European University". www.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
8. "Center for Jewish History :: 15 W. 16th Street NY, NY 10011". www.cjh.org. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
9. "For Libraries at UCLA and Yale, $5 Million Arcadia Fund Gifts Go Beyond Money". Archived from the original on 2012-11-07.
10. "Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities". www.bbaw.de. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
11. "Welcome to the Endangered Archives Program". 2017-09-11. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
12. Brent, Marc (2016-09-09). "Peter Baldwin, professor and philanthropist, is appointed to the Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board". Diff.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
13. Thaney, Kaitlin (2017-09-25). "Matching gift grows Wikimedia Endowment by $10 million". Diff.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
14. Wikipedia 15 Contributors Retrieved December 26, 2023.
15. "Faculty—History: Peter Baldwin". University of California. Archived from the original on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
16. Baldwin, Peter (17 May 2016). "The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle". ISBN   9780691169095.
17. Danton, Robert (December 21, 2023). "The Dream of a Universal Library". The New York Review of Books. 70 (20): 73–74.

External links

• Page at UCLA, detailing various publications.
• Academic publications