Susan Pedersen specializes in modern British history, the British empire, comparative European history, and women's history. Her publications include Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (Yale UP, 2004) and Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945 (Cambridge UP, 1993). Settler Colonialism: Projects, Practices, Legacies, co-edited with Caroline Elkins, will be published by Taylor & Francis in the spring of 2005. She is beginning a new project on the impact of the League of Nations on colonial governance between the two world wars, and will be on leave at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin to work on that project in 2005-6. She received her AB (1982) and PhD (1989) from Harvard University, where she taught until joining the Columbia faculty in 2003.