Quinn Slobodian | |
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![]() Slobodian in 2023 | |
Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
Occupation(s) | Professor of International History, Boston University |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | New York University (PhD) Lewis & Clark College |
Thesis | (2008) |
Doctoral advisor | Molly Nolan |
Academic work | |
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] Slobodian is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
Slobodian was born in 1978 in Edmonton,Alberta. [3] His father was a doctor. [3] The family moved to Vancouver Island in 1981,and relocated to Lesotho in Southern Africa a few years later. [3] They left for Vanuatu in the South Pacific,in 1992,and returned to Canada a year later. [3]
He studied history at Lewis &Clark College,graduating in 2000,and was awarded his PhD by New York University in 2008. [4]
Between 2013 and 2014,he was a Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Centre of Free University Berlin. [5]
In 2015,he became the Marion Butler McLean Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College. He interrupted his teaching career in 2017 for a year as a residential fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,Harvard University. [4]
Since 2024,Slobodian has been Professor of International History at Boston University. In the same year,he was a visiting professor at University of Roma 3. [6] Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,Harvard University. [2] [1]
Until January 2025,Slobodian was a co-editor of Contemporary European History . [7]
He has written the books Foreign Front:Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012), [8] Globalists:The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018), [8] and Crack-Up Capitalism:Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). [9]
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