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==Academic Career==
 
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Ferguson graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with First Class Honours in 1985. He spent two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, before taking up a Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1989. He later moved to a Lectureship at Peterhouse. He returned to Oxford in 1992 to become Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, a position he held until 2000, when he was appointed Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford. Two years later he left for the United States to take up the Herzog Chair in Financial History at the Stern Business School, New York University. He moved to Harvard in 2004.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7026213.ece PROFILE: Niall Ferguson], Sunday Times, 14 February 2010.</ref>
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Ferguson graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with First Class Honours in 1985.<ref>[http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=16538 Overview], Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.</ref>
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Subsequently, writes Robert S. Boynton, "Ferguson was accepted into the postgraduate program. He chose as his mentor the historian [[Norman Stone]], who was a fellow-Scot, a Glasgow Academy alumnus, a much reviled Thatcherite, and-like one of Stone's heroes, [[A.J.P. Taylor]], a media don."<ref>Robert S. Boynton, [http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=50 Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson], New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.</ref>
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He spent two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin.<ref>[http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=16538 Overview], Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.</ref> Ferguson's supplemented his income by writing for the [[Daily Mail]] and the [[Daily Telegraph]], while studying in the Warburg archives in Hamburg. This research provided the material for his first book, Paper and Iron, which argued that "the hyperinflation that destroyed Weimar's rich bourgeois culture could have been avoided by a combination of deflationary economic policies and authoritarian political measures".<ref>Robert S. Boynton, [http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=50 Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson], New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.</ref>
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He took up a Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1989. He later moved to a Lectureship at Peterhouse<ref>[http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=16538 Overview], Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.</ref>, where he was influenced by the conservative historian [[Maurice Cowling]].<ref>Robert S. Boynton, [http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=50 Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson], New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.</ref>
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He returned to Oxford in 1992 to become Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, a position he held until 2000, when he was appointed Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford. Two years later he left for the United States to take up the Herzog Chair in Financial History at the Stern Business School, New York University. He moved to Harvard in 2004.<ref>[http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facId=16538 Overview], Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

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Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.[1]

Early Life

Ferguson was born in Glasgow on 18 April 1964. He was educated at Glasgow Academy.[2]

Academic Career

Ferguson graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with First Class Honours in 1985.[3]

Subsequently, writes Robert S. Boynton, "Ferguson was accepted into the postgraduate program. He chose as his mentor the historian Norman Stone, who was a fellow-Scot, a Glasgow Academy alumnus, a much reviled Thatcherite, and-like one of Stone's heroes, A.J.P. Taylor, a media don."[4]

He spent two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin.[5] Ferguson's supplemented his income by writing for the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph, while studying in the Warburg archives in Hamburg. This research provided the material for his first book, Paper and Iron, which argued that "the hyperinflation that destroyed Weimar's rich bourgeois culture could have been avoided by a combination of deflationary economic policies and authoritarian political measures".[6]

He took up a Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1989. He later moved to a Lectureship at Peterhouse[7], where he was influenced by the conservative historian Maurice Cowling.[8]

He returned to Oxford in 1992 to become Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, a position he held until 2000, when he was appointed Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford. Two years later he left for the United States to take up the Herzog Chair in Financial History at the Stern Business School, New York University. He moved to Harvard in 2004.[9]

Affiliations

Notes

  1. ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
  2. ↑ PROFILE: Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times, 14 February 2010.
  3. ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
  4. ↑ Robert S. Boynton, Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson, New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.
  5. ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
  6. ↑ Robert S. Boynton, Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson, New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.
  7. ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
  8. ↑ Robert S. Boynton, Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson, New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.
  9. ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
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