Susan Pedersen (historian)
- Susan Pedersen (historian)
Susan Pedersen is a historian currently working at Columbia University. Pedersen focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, women's history, settler colonialism, and the history of international institutions.
Born in Canada and raised in Japan, she received both her B.A. (1982) and Ph.D (1989) from Harvard University, where she was also a professor and served as the university's Dean of Undergraduate Education. In the latter position, she defended the university against charges of excessive grade inflation.
Pedersen joined the Columbia faculty in 2003. Among her works is a biography of Eleanor Rathbone. She is currently writing a book on the mandate system of the League of Nations; in 2005 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to assist with research on this project.
Works
*"Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century" (edited with Caroline Elkins, Routledge, 2005)
*"Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience" (Yale UP, 2004)
*"Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945" (Cambridge UP, 1993)
*"After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain" (edited with Peter Mandler, Routledge, 1994)
*"Hannah More Meets Simple Simon: Tracts, Chapbooks, and Popular Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century England," "Journal of British Studies" 25 (January 1986): 84-113.
External links
* [http://www.columbia.edu/~sp2216/index.html Susan Pedersen's homepage]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1133702 NPR interview with Susan Pedersen on grade inflation at Harvard]
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