Peter Baldwin (professor)
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Early life
Baldwin's parents were the medieval historians Jenny Jochens and John W. Baldwin.[3]Template:R/superscript
Academic career
He was educated at Harvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), and Yale (BA Philosophy and History, 1978).[4] He has written several books on the comparative history of Europe and America.
Baldwin also serves on the boards of the New York Public Library,[5] the American Council of Learned Societies,[6] the Central European University,[7] and as chair of the board of the Center for Jewish History.[8]
Philanthropy
With his wife Lisbet Rausing, who is an heir of the Tetra Pak fortune, Baldwin co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001. The Fund has given away over $1 billion to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access.[9]
Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[10] The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library[11] and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund.
Baldwin joined the advisory board of the Wikimedia Endowment in 2016.[12] Baldwin and Rausing gave $5 million to the Wikimedia Endowment in 2017[13] and are listed among the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation.[14]
Publications
- The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
- Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)
- Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005)
- The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009)[15]
- The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014)[16]
- Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (MIT Press 2021)
- Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled so Differently across the Globe (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All (The MIT Press, 2023)[17]
References
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- ↑ Wikipedia 15 Contributors Retrieved December 26, 2023.
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External links
- Page at UCLA, detailing various publications.
- Academic publications
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