Professor Jeremy Adelman FBA

Summary

Born in Canada, Jeremy Adelman received university degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he completed his DPhil in 1989. After years working in the UK and in Latin America, he moved to Princeton University. In 2023, he joined the University of Cambridge as Director of the Global History Lab.

A recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, Adelman has authored or edited fifteen books.

The most recent include 'Worlds Together', 'Worlds Apart: A History of Humankind from the Beginning to the Present' (W. W. Norton, 7th edition 2024), the acclaimed life-history 'Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman' (Princeton University Press, 2013), and edited with Gyan Prakash, 'Inventing the Third World: The Search for Freedom in the Cold War Global South' (Bloomsbury, 2022) and with Andreas Eckert, 'Nations, Narratives, and Other World Products' (Bloomsbury, 2024). His next book, 'Love and Fear: Making the Modern World', is due out with Princeton University Press in early 2026.

The Global History Lab is committed to teaching world history at a global scale, connecting over 200,000 students from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe – and engaged in rapid response education and research in emergency contexts.