Susan Pedersen

Education

Ph.D. — Harvard University, 1989
M.A. — Harvard University, 1983
B.A. — Radcliffe College, 1982

Interests and Research

Susan Pedersen, Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum, specializes in British history, the British empire, comparative European history, and international history. She is now writing a book on the mandates system of the League of Nations and its impact on the imperial order.

Awards

• Fellowship from the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New Public Library, 2011-12
• Fellowship from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 2011
• Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, 2009
• Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2007
• Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, 2006
• Fellowship from the the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2005-6
• Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-3 and 1994-5
• Albion book prize of the North American Conference on British Studies (for Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience)
• Allan Sharlin Prize, Social Science History Association (for Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State)

Affiliations

Advisory Boards: Twentieth Century British History, The Historical Journal, The National Archives

Member: American Historical Association, North American Conference on British Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, American Association of University Women Fellow, Royal Historical Society