Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge

Author of Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government, and historian of the twentieth-century United States speaking and writing on issues of American politics, immigration, and inequality

Past Events

October 26, 2017
“America: Laboratory of Democracy” debuts as a radio show on BBC World Service

November 2, 2017
Chair and Comment on panel, “Race Making in Multiracial Societies,” Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, Canada

November 22-26, 2017
Introducing the Spanish edition of Liberty and Coercion at the Guadalajara Book Fair, and speaking at the international forum, The Siege of Civilization: From Wall to Wall, hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico

July 1, 2017
Third Meeting of Workshop on Inequality, Politics, and Culture in Post-industrial America, University of Oxford

May 31-June 1, 2017
“The Limited Wisdom of Federalist 10,” History of American Democracy Conference, Tobin Project, Cambridge, MA

May 15-17, 2017
“The Rise and Fall of America’s Neoliberal Order,” keynote to Consortium on the History of the State and Society, University of Chicago

May 12, 2017
Second Meeting of Workshop on Inequality, Politics, and Culture in Post-Industrial America, Harvard University

May 5, 2017
“The Rise and Fall of America’s Neoliberal Order,” Royal Historical Society Lecture, London

April 6-9, 2017
“Corruption and American Politics,” Roundtable, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans

March 23, 2017
“States of Exception in American History,” Politics and Society Seminar, Columbia University

March 10, 2017

Debate on Trump’s First Hundred Days, Cambridge Union, Cambridge

January 24, 2017
“Race and Nation in the Age of Obama,” Baden-Wurttemberg Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Germany

January 18, 2017
“Race and Nation in the Age of Obama,” The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford

December 15, 2016
“Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present,” Serious Times Lecture, School of the Visual Arts, New York City

November 29, 2016
“Nationalism, Citizenship, and Ethnic Identity in America,” Keynote Lecture, Center for American Studies, Rome

November 16, 2016, 6.30
“The American Election and the Left,” panel discussion, London School of Economics, The Ralph Miliband Programme

November 11-12, 2016
“Race and Nation in the Age of Obama”, paper presented to Princeton University Conference on the Obama Presidency

October 26, 2016, 5.00
“The Media and the US Election,” panel discussion, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

October 22, 2016, 3.30
“Changemakers: Movements in History,” panel discussion, Cambridge Literary Festival

October 19, 2016, 7.30
“ELECTION: LIVE! The Battle for the White House,” live podcast, Cambridge Literary Festival

October 13, 2016
A talk on Liberty and Coercion and its relevance to the US election, Girton College, University of Cambridge

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