Peter Baldwin (professor)

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956)[1] is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, and a philanthropist. He was educated at Harvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), and Yale (BA Philosophy and History, 1978).[2] He has written several books on the comparative history of Europe and America.

Academic career

Philanthropy

With his wife Lisbet Rausing, Baldwin co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001. The Fund has given away over $1 billion to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access.[3] Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS,[4] The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library[5] and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund. Baldwin and Rausing are listed as one of the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation[6]

Baldwin also serves on the boards of the New York Public Library,[7] the American Council of Learned Societies,[8] the Central European University,[9] and as chair of the board of the Center for Jewish History.[10]

Publications
  • The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
  • Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)
  • Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005)
  • The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009)[11]
  • The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014)[12]
  • Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (MIT Press 2021)
  • First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • Athena Unbound:Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free (The MIT Press, 2023)

References
  1. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
  2. "Peter Baldwin". UCLA. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  3. "For Libraries at UCLA and Yale, $5 Million Arcadia Fund Gifts Go Beyond Money". Archived from the original on 2012-11-07.
  4. "Endangered Languages Documentation Programme". www.eldp.net. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  5. "Welcome to the Endangered Archives Program". 2017-09-11. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11.
  6. Wikipedia 15 Contributors Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  7. "The New York Public Library Board of Trustees". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  8. "ACLS Board of Directors". ACLS. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  9. "Board of Trustees | Central European University". www.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  10. "Center for Jewish History :: 15 W. 16th Street NY, NY 10011". www.cjh.org. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  11. "Faculty—History: Peter Baldwin". University of California. Archived from the original on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  12. Baldwin, Peter (17 May 2016). "The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle". ISBN 9780691169095.
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