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Revision as of 15:36, 26 July 2010
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
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Harvard University
- Harvard Business School
- Center for European Studies
- Jesus College, Oxford University
- Hoover Institution
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
- Centre for Policy Studies
Conferences
Notes
- ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
- ↑ PROFILE: Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times, 14 February 2010.
- ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
- ↑ Robert S. Boynton, Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson, New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.
- ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
- ↑ Robert S. Boynton, Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson, New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.
- ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
- ↑ Robert S. Boynton, Thinking the Unthinkable: A profile of Niall Ferguson, New Yorker, 12 April 1999, archived at robetboynton.com.
- ↑ Overview, Niall Ferguson, Faculty & Research, Harvard Business School, accessed 26 July 2010.
