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Biography
Education
Ph.D – Harvard University, 1989
M.A. – Harvard University, 1983
B.A. – Radcliffe College, 1982
Current Departmental Service
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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.
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
Teaching
Courses
Fall 2008
ON LEAVE
Awards
Fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin (2009), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2007), the Guggenheim Foundation (2006), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2005-6), 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).
Selected Publications
Books
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945
Recent Scholarly Articles
“Metaphors of the Schoolroom: Women Working the Mandates System of the League of Nations,” History Workshop Journal 66 (2008), 188-207.
“Back to the League of Nations: Review Essay,” American Historical Review, 112: 4 (Oct. 2007), pp. 1091-1117.
“The Meaning of the Mandates System: An Argument,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 32: 4 (Oct-Dec. 2006), 560-82.
For writing in the London Review of Books, click here.
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