Professor of History, Columbia University
Bosch Fellow in Public Policy - Class of Spring 2009
Susan Pedersen is a professor of history at Columbia University. She is a specialist in British history, the British Empire, comparative European history, and international history. Her book publications include Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (Yale, 2004); Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France 1914-1945 (Cambridge, 1993), as well as several other edited volumes. She received her BA and PhD from Harvard University, and subsequently taught in the university’s department of history from 1988 to 2003, and then became a professor of history at Columbia University. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.