Location:
Modern Britain, Imperial History
Susan Pedersen received her B.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1989) from Harvard University, where she taught until joining the Columbia faculty in 2003. Her publications include:
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (2004);
Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century (co-ed., 2005);
Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France,1914-1945 (1993); and
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (co-ed.,1994). She is now writing a book on the mandates system of the League of Nations and its impact on the imperial order. Her review essay surveying recent scholarship on the League, “Back to the League of Nations,” appears in the October 2007 issue of the American Historical Review.
