Jeremy Adelman

Jeremy Adelman (born 1960) is an American historian who was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History^[1] at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, from 2014 to 2023.^[2] He was also the director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University that was relocated to the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge in 2023. Previously, he had 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 BA in Political Economy from the University of Toronto in 1984, his MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics in 1985, and his DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1989. In 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 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.

Adelman is married to Deborah Prentice, the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge; they have three children.^[8]

• Adelman, Jeremy (1994). Frontier development : land, labour, and capital on the wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Stanford University Press: Stanford, 1999) ISBN 978-0804746823 Winner, American Historical Association James A. Rawley Prize for the best book in Atlantic History^[9]
• Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2006) ISBN 978-0691142777
• Co-authored, World Together, Worlds Apart: An Introduction to World History From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present 3rd Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010) ISBN 978-0393925470
• Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2013) ISBN 9780691155678.
• El idealista prágmatico: La odisea de Alberto O. Hirschman. Ediciones Uniandes (March 1, 2017)ISBN 978-9587744927
• The Essential Hirschman (ed.). Princeton University Press 2015 ISBN 978-0691165677
• Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (ed.) Routledge 1999. ISBN 978-0415921534
• Co-edited with Stephen Aron, Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants. (Brepols, 2001). ISBN 978-2503508764
• Los años del daguerrotipo: Primeras fotografías argentinas, 1843-1870. (with Miguel Angel Cuarterolo. Fundación Antorchas 1995. Spanish and English.ISBN 978-9509837058
• Essays in Argentine Labour History, 1870-1930. Palgrave MacMillan 1992. ISBN 978-0333551844

• Walsh, Adrian (September 2014). "Unorthodox economics : an intellectual biography of a prolific theorist". Australian Book Review. 364: 29–30. Reviews of Worldly philosopher and The essential Hirschman.

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