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*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.
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*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 robertboynton.com.
 
*Johann Hari, [http://www.johannhari.com/2006/06/12/there-can-be-no-excuse-for-empire There can be no excuse for Empire], 12 June 2006.
 
*Johann Hari, [http://www.johannhari.com/2006/06/12/there-can-be-no-excuse-for-empire There can be no excuse for Empire], 12 June 2006.
 
*Johann Hari, [http://www.johannhari.com/2006/06/17/the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions The truth? Our empire killed millions], 17 June 2006.
 
*Johann Hari, [http://www.johannhari.com/2006/06/17/the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions The truth? Our empire killed millions], 17 June 2006.
 
*Johann Hari, [http://www.johannhari.com/2006/06/23/niall-ferguson-the-row-continues Niall Ferguson - the row continues], 23 June 2006.  
 
*Johann Hari, [http://www.johannhari.com/2006/06/23/niall-ferguson-the-row-continues Niall Ferguson - the row continues], 23 June 2006.  
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*[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7026213.ece PROFILE: Niall Ferguson], Sunday Times, 14 February 2010.
 
*Laurie Penny, [http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/06/history-british-ferguson Michael Gove and the imperialists] New Statesman blogs, 1 June 2010.
 
*Laurie Penny, [http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/06/history-british-ferguson Michael Gove and the imperialists] New Statesman blogs, 1 June 2010.
 
*Bernard Porter, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/06/29/bernard-porter/militant-tendency/ Militant Tendency], London Review of Books, 29 June 2010.
 
*Bernard Porter, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/06/29/bernard-porter/militant-tendency/ Militant Tendency], London Review of Books, 29 June 2010.

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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]

National Curriculum role

At the 2010 Hay Festival, the new Education Secretary Michael Gove invited Ferguson to "spend more time in Britain to help us design a more exciting and engaging history curriculum?."[10] Gove had praised Ferguson in 2006 article because he "he dared to approach the legacy of the British Empire with a balanced mind, accepting its manifold evils but also ready to acknowledge its progressive side."[11]

Affiliations

Conferences

External Resources

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.
  10. Charlotte Higgins, Rightwing historian Niall Ferguson given school curriculum role, guardian.co.uk, 30 May 2010.
  11. Michael Gove, There's only one Fergie in the history game, michaelgove.com, 14 June 2006.