Susan Pedersen (historian)
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Susan Pedersen (historian)

Susan Pedersen is a Canadian historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University. Pedersen focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, women's history, settler colonialism, and the history of international institutions.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1959 to Canadian missionary parents, she received her B.A. (1982) from Radcliffe College and both her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D (1989) from Harvard University, where she was also a professor and served as the Dean of Undergraduate Education. In the latter position, she defended the university against charges of excessive grade inflation.

Pedersen was a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow for 2002–2003 and joined the Columbia University faculty in 2003. Among her works is a biography of Eleanor Rathbone and a book on the League of Nations mandate system. In 2005 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Susan Pedersen was a Bosch Fellow in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2009. She received the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates in 2014. Her book The Guardians received the Cundill History Prize in 2015. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2020. In the fall of 2021, she was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.

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