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 13, 2017
Co-Organizer of Symposium, “The United States and World War One: Exploring Political, Economic and Cultural Entanglements,” British Academy, London
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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