Peter Baldwin (professor)
Encyclopedia
Peter Baldwin is a professor of History at the University of California
, Los Angeles. He was educated at Yale
and Harvard and has written several books on Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries: The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975; Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930; Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS.
In 2000, he received received the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for his work The Influence of History and Tradition on Public Health Strategies: A Nationally Comparative Approach to the AIDS Epidemic, which explored the variation of international responses to the AIDS epidemic.
A study of the state of trans-Atlantic relations between the US and Europe from Oxford University Press was published in late 2009, entitled The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike.
He is currently working on a cluster of books that focus on the development of the Continental legal doctrine of the right of personality and, more broadly, the differences between civil and Common law countries’ conceptions of human rights.
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing form the Donor board of the Arcadia Fund, founded in 2001. As of 2008, the Fund had made grant commitments of over $181 million to preserve endangered treasures of culture and nature.
University of California
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, Los Angeles. He was educated at Yale
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and Harvard and has written several books on Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries: The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975; Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930; Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS.
In 2000, he received received the Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for his work The Influence of History and Tradition on Public Health Strategies: A Nationally Comparative Approach to the AIDS Epidemic, which explored the variation of international responses to the AIDS epidemic.
A study of the state of trans-Atlantic relations between the US and Europe from Oxford University Press was published in late 2009, entitled The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike.
He is currently working on a cluster of books that focus on the development of the Continental legal doctrine of the right of personality and, more broadly, the differences between civil and Common law countries’ conceptions of human rights.
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing form the Donor board of the Arcadia Fund, founded in 2001. As of 2008, the Fund had made grant commitments of over $181 million to preserve endangered treasures of culture and nature.
External links
- Page at UCLA, detailing various publications.
- Investigator Awards page.
- Academic publications