Professional Affiliation

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University

Expert Bio

Jeremy Adelman is currently the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and the Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. He has lived and worked in seven countries and four continents. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006) and Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013), a chronicle of one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers. He has been the recipient of British Council, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships, as well as the American Council Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship.  He served as chair of the History Department at Princeton for four years and is founder of the Council for International Teaching and Research.  At present, he is finishing two books; the first is called Earth Hunger: Markets, Resources and the Need for Strangers, and the second is about Latin America since 1492. After graduating from the University of Toronto, Adelman earned a masters’ degree in economic history at the London School of Economics (1985) and completed a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989).