PETER BALDWIN
PERSONAL
Address: History Department
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
310/396-0108 (home)
310/825-4601 (office)
Fax: 310/388-1321
email: pbaldwin@ucla.edu
Birth: 22 December 1956, Ann Arbor, Michigan
EMPLOYMENT
1999- Professor, History Department, UCLA
1992‑99: Associate Professor, History Department, UCLA
1990-92: Assistant Professor, History Department, UCLA
1986-90: Assistant Professor, History Department, Harvard University
EDUCATION
PhD History Department, Harvard University, 1986
MA History Deparment, Harvard University, 1980
BA Philosophy Department, History Department, Yale University, 1978
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005)
Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990); Spanish translation, La Politica de Solidaridad Social, (Madrid, 1992); Ch. 3 reprinted in Welfare: Critical Concepts in Sociology, edited by Nicholas Deakin and Catherine Jones-Finer (Routledge, 2003).
Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)
Articles:
“Can There Be a Democratic Public Health? Fighting AIDS in the Industrialized World,” in Susan Gross Solomon, Patrick Zylberman and Lion Murard, eds., On Shifting Ground: Health and Space in Twentieth Century Europe (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)
“Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History,” Journal of Policy History, 17, 1 (2005)
“Preemption vs. Reaction: Civil Society and the State in the Victorian World,” in Peter Mandler, ed., Liberty and Authority in Victorian England (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
“Comparing and Generalizing: Why All History is Comparative, Yet No History is Sociology,”in Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor, eds., Comparison and History:
Europe in Cross-National and Comparative Perspective (Routledge, forthcoming).
“The Return of the Coercive State? Behavioral Control in Multicultural Society,” in John A. Hall et al., eds., The Nation-State Under Challenge: Autonomy and Capacity in a Changing World (Princeton University Press, 2003)
"Welfare State and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization," in Andreas Føllesdal and Peter Koslowski, eds., Restructuring the Welfare State: Ethical Issues of Social Security in an International Perspective (Springer-Verlag, 1997)
"The Past Rise of Social Security: Historical Trends and Patterns" in Herbert Giersch, ed. Reforming the Welfare State (Springer-Verlag, 1997)
"Can We Define a European Welfare State Model?" in Bent Greve, ed., Comparative Welfare Systems: The Scandinavian Model in a Period of Change (Macmillan, 1996); revised version, “Der europäische Wohlfahrtsstaat: Konstruktionsversuche in der zeitgenössischen Forschung,” in Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 49, 1 (2003).
"Welfare and social security, promotion of," in Seymour Martin Lipset, ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy (1996)
"Beveridge in the Longue Durée," in John Ditch et al., eds., Beveridge and Social Security: An International Retrospective (Oxford University Press, 1994). Also published in a slightly different version in the International Social Security Review, 45, 1-2 (1992)
"Die sozialen Ursprünge des Wohlfahrtsstaates," Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 36, 11/12 (November/December 1990)
"Les classes moyennes et l'Etat-protecteur de l'après-guerre: Le cas français et le cas allemand," in Mission Interministérielle Recherche Expérmentation, Les comparaisons internationales des politiques et des systemes de sécurité sociale: Colloque de recherche, (Paris, nd); reprinted as "Class Interests and the Postwar Welfare State in Europe: An Historical Perspective," International Social Security Review, 3 (1990)
"Social Interpretations of Nazism: Reviving a Tradition," Journal of Contemporary History, 25, 1 (January 1990)
"Class, Interest and the Welfare State: A Reply to Sven E. Olsson," International Review of Social History, 3 (1989); Swedish translation in Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia, no 50 (n.d.)
"Postwar Germany in the Longue Durée," German Politics and Society, 16 (Spring 1989)
"The Scandinavian Origins of the Social Interpretation of the Welfare State," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 31, 1 (1989), reprinted in Ulla Maija Perttulla and Jorma Sipilä, eds., Social Policy in Scandinavia: Essays in History, Gender and Future Changes (University of Tampere, 1996) and in Julia S. O'Connor and Gregg M. Olsen, eds., Power Resources Theory and the Welfare State: A Critical Approach (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
"How Socialist is Solidaristic Social Policy? Swedish Postwar Reform as a Case in Point," International Review of Social History, 2 (1988); Swedish translation in Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia, no 50 (n.d.)
"Zionist and Non‑Zionist Jews in the Last Years Before the Nazi Regime," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook XXVII, 1982
"Clausewitz in Nazi Germany," Journal of Contemporary History, 1981, reprinted in Walter Laqueur, ed., The Second World War: Essays in Military and Political History (London 1981)
"Liberalism, Nationalism and Degeneration: The Case of Max Nordau," Central European History, 13, 2 (1980)
Review Essays and Responses:
"Riding the Subways of Gemeinschaft," Acta Sociologica, 41, 4 (1998)
"The Welfare State for Historians," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34, 4 (October 1992)
Book Reviews:
Risto Alapuro, State and Revolution in Finland in European Sociological Review, 1990
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 in History of European Ideas, 14, 1 (1992)
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States in History of European Ideas, 14, 1 (1992)
Celia Applegate, A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat in Journal of Modern History, 65, 3 (1993)
Rudy Koshar, Splintered Classes: Politics and the Lower Middle Classes in Interwar Europe in Journal of Economic History, 52, 1 (March 1992)
Alfred Pfaller et al., Can the Welfare State Compete? in Acta Sociologica, 35, 4 (1992)
George Steinmetz, Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany in Contemporary Sociology, 23, 6 (November 1994)
Christoph Conrad, Vom Greis zum Rentner, in American Historical Review, 101, 2 (April 1996)
Barron H. Lerner, Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road in Journal of the American Medical Association, 282, 10 (8 September 1999), p. 996
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age in International Review of Social History, 45, 2 (August 2000)
Roger Davidson, Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland in Scottish Economic and Social History, 21, 1 (2001)
Paul Julian Weindling, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945 in Journal of Modern History, 74, 2 (June 2002).
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown in Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 1 (3 July 2002)
Ronald O. Valdiserri, ed., Dawning Answers: how the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health in International Journal of Epidemiology, 32 (2003)
Amy L. Fairchild, Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force in Journal of the American Medical Association (forthcoming)
PAPERS
“Can There Be a Democratic Public Health? Fighting AIDS in Europe,” Center for European Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 2004
“Understanding the Response to AIDS,” Department of the History of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, November 2003
“The Politics of Public Health,” Danish Medical History Society, Copenhagen, November 2003
“Globalization and the Welfare State,” Spring School in Comparative History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 2003.
“The Political Culture of Public Health,” History and Economics Seminar, Trinity College, Cambridge, May 2003.
“The Public Health Response to AIDS: A Historical Approach,” Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, February 2003.
“The Public Health Response to AIDS: A Matter for Historians,” Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, December 2002.
“On the European State in Comparative Perspective,” Conference, “Locating the Victorians,” London, 12-15 July 2001.
“Comparing and Generalizing: Why All History is Comparative, Yet No History is Sociology,” 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, August 2000
“Globalization, Muliculturalism and Formal State Control,” Conference on “What Can States Do Now?,” Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania, May 2000
“States and Statism,” Robert Schumann Center, European University Institute, Florence, March 2000
"Politics and Public Health: Ideology and Disease Control in Europe, 1830-1930," Social History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University College London, June 1999
"Epidemi og ideologi: Nationale variationer i bekæmpelse af smitsomme sygdomme fra kolera til AIDS," Faculty of the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, 13 March 1998
"Pestilence and Politics: Epidemics, Ideology and Disease Control in Sweden and Germany," Conference on "Communities in Peril: The Memory and History of Crisis in Scandinavia and Germany," European University Institute, Florence, October 1997
"Social Policy in Postwar Germany: Between Renewal and Restoration," German Historical Institute, Washington DC, December 1995
"The Past Rise of Social Security: Historical Trends and Patterns," Egon-Sohmen-Symposium, "Reforming the Welfare State," Prague, 31 August-1 Sept 1995
"Welfare State and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization," Conference on "Interpreting Historical Change at the End of the Twentieth Century," University of California, Davis, 24-26 February 1995
"Can we Define a European Welfare State Model?," Conference on "Comparative Welfare Systems," Roskilde Universitetscenter, Denmark, 5-6 May 1994
"Beveridge in the Longue Durée," Plenary address at the conference, Social Security Fifty Years After Beveridge, University of York, 27-30 September 1992
"New Historical Approaches to the Analysis of the Welfare State," Social Science History Association, 16th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 1991
"Class, Risk and Interest in the Development of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975," American Historical Association Convention, New York City, December 1990
"The Middle Classes and the Postwar Welfare State: The French and German Cases," Research Symposium on the International Comparisons of Social Security Policies and Systems, Mission interministerielle de recherche-experimentation, Ministere du travail and Ministere de la solidarité nationale, Paris, 13 June 1990
"Die sozialen Ursprünge des Wohlfahrtsstaates," Institut für neuere Geschichte, University of Munich, 1 June 1990
"Klassen, Interessen und Risiko im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Die sozialen Ursprünge der Sozialpolitik aus einer vergleichenden Perspektive," opening address at the Jahrestagung der Sektion Sozialpolitik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Bielefeld, 4 May 1990
"Skandinavisk Velferdsstat og de Borgerlige Partierne," University of Oslo, 20 November 1989
"Social Policy and Social Democracy: A Couplet in Need of Disassociation?" Conference on the Future of the European Welfare State, Bergen, Norway, August 1989
"Social Policy and Social Class: How Much of a Connection?," Davis Seminar, Princeton University, April 1986
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2001-03 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Investigator Award
2001-03 National Institutes of Health
2000 DAAD
2000 Fellowship, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA
1998 National Science Foundation, Global Legal Studies Program
1995-97 National Institutes of Health, Grant R01 LM05361-01A3
1994-95 Humboldt Fellowship, Berlin
1989-90 German Marshall Fund Fellowship
1989-90 William F. Milton Fund of the Harvard Medical School, Research Grant
1986 American-Scandinavian Foundation grant for research in Sweden
1984‑85 DAAD Grant for research in West Germany
1983‑84 Krupp Foundation Fellowship for research in Sweden, France, Germany and Britain
1983‑84 American‑Scandinavian Foundation grant for research in Denmark
1978‑79 Fulbright Fellowship for study in West Germany
1978‑79 Marshall Grant for study in Denmark (declined)
1975 NEH Youthgrant for preparation of a project in 18th century American history
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
History Dept, UCLA, 1990-present
History 19: A History of Private Life: From the Village Community to the Global Village?
History 129: Germany in the Twentieth Century
History 101: Introduction to Historical Methodology
History 197: European Fascism, 1875-1945
History 197: Explorations in Neo-Historicism
History 197: Nineteenth Century Germany
History 100: History and Historians
History 1C: Western Civilization
History 191E: Jews and the Third Reich
History 230: Techniques of Comparative History
History 200: German History and Historiography of the Early Modern and Modern Periods
History 199: various individual tutorials
History Dept, Harvard University, 1986-90
History 1500, Society, Politics and War in Twentieth Century Germany
History 1336, European Political Development, 1850-1950
History 1339, Socialism and Social Democracy, 1870-1930
History 1469, European Fascism, 1880-1945
History 2901, Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Comparative History