Quinn Slobodian | |
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![]() Quinn Slobodian in 2023. | |
Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Professor of International History, Boston University |
Children | 1 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | New York University (PhD) Lewis & Clark College |
Thesis | (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Molly Nolan |
Academic work | |
Era | 20th &21st century |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | Wellesley College Free University Berlin Harvard University |
Main interests | Modern European history International history |
Website | www |
Quinn Slobodian (born 1978) is a Canadian historian specialising in modern Germany and international history. He is currently Professor of International History at Boston University. [1] Previously,he was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,Harvard University. [2]
He is the author of the books Foreign Front:Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012), [3] Globalists:The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018), [3] and Crack-Up Capitalism:Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). [4]
Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton,Alberta. [5] His father was a doctor. [5] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981,and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later. [5] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean in 1992,and returned to Canada a year later. [5]
He studied history at Lewis &Clark College,graduating in 2000,and was awarded his PhD by New York University in 2008. [6]
He is a co-editor of Contemporary European History . [7]
He was the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and a Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,Harvard University. [2] He is Professor of International History at Boston University. [1]
He has written the books Foreign Front:Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012), [3] Globalists:The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018), [3] and Crack-Up Capitalism:Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). [4]
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