Susan Pedersen (historian)
Canadian historian
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Susan Pedersen is a Canadian historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University.[1] Pedersen focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, women's history, settler colonialism, and the history of international institutions.[1][2][3]
Susan Pedersen | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2005) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Life
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1959 to Canadian missionary parents,[4] she received her B.A. (1982) from Radcliffe College and both her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D (1989) from Harvard University,[1] where she was also a professor and served as the Dean of Undergraduate Education.[5][6] In the latter position, she defended the university against charges of excessive grade inflation.[7]
Pedersen was a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow for 2002–2003[5] and joined the Columbia University faculty in 2003.[8] Among her works is a biography of Eleanor Rathbone[9] and a book on the League of Nations mandate system.[10][11] In 2005 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[12]
Susan Pedersen was a Bosch Fellow in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2009.[13] She received the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates in 2014.[14] Her book The Guardians received the Cundill History Prize in 2015.[15] She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016[3] and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2020.[2] In the fall of 2021, she was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.[16]
Works
Books
- Pedersen, Susan (1993). Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55834-1.
- Clive, John Leonard; Pedersen, Susan; Mandler, Peter, eds. (1994). After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-07056-0.
- Pedersen, Susan (2004). Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10245-1.
- Elkins, Caroline; Pedersen, Susan, eds. (2005). Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-94924-8.
- Pedersen, Susan (2015). The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957048-5.
Selected articles
- —— (January 1986). "Hannah More Meets Simple Simon: Tracts, Chapbooks, and Popular Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century England". Journal of British Studies. 25 (1). doi:10.1086/385855.
- —— (October 1990). "Gender, Welfare, and Citizenship in Britain during the Great War". The American Historical Review. 95 (4). doi:10.1086/ahr/95.4.983.
- —— (December 1991). "National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy-making". The Journal of Modern History. 63 (4). doi:10.1086/244384.
- —— (18 July 2024). "The Messiah of Cadoxton". Granta. No. 168.
- —— (19 March 2026). "Men explain Epstein to me". London Review of Books. Vol. 48, no. 5.