Peter Baldwin (professor) explained

Peter Baldwin
Birth Date:	1956
Occupation:	Professor & philanthropist

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956)^[1] is a research professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, and a philanthropist.^[2]

Academic career

He was educated at Harvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), and Yale (BA Philosophy and History, 1978).^[3] He has written several books on the comparative history of Europe and America.

Baldwin also serves on the boards of the New York Public Library,^[4] the American Council of Learned Societies,^[5] the Central European University,^[6] and as chair of the board of the Center for Jewish History.^[7]

Philanthropy

With his wife Lisbet Rausing, who is an heir of the Tetra Pak fortune, Baldwin co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001. The Fund has given away over $1 billion to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access.^[8]

Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,^[9] The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library^[10] and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund.

Baldwin joined the advisory board of the Wikimedia Endowment in 2016.^[11] Baldwin and Rausing gave $5 million to the Wikimedia Endowment in 2017^[12] and are listed among the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation.^[13]

Publications

• The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)
• Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005)
• The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009)^[14]
• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014)^[15]
• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (MIT Press 2021)
• Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled so Differently across the Globe (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All (The MIT Press, 2023)^[16]

External links

• Page at UCLA, detailing various publications.
• Academic publications

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Peter Baldwin UCLA History . 2023-11-20 . history.ucla.edu.
3. Web site: Peter Baldwin . UCLA . 27 August 2022.
4. Web site: The New York Public Library Board of Trustees . 2023-07-13 . The New York Public Library.
5. Web site: ACLS Board of Directors . 2023-07-13 . ACLS . en-US.
6. Web site: Board of Trustees Central European University . 2023-07-13 . www.ceu.edu.
7. Web site: Center for Jewish History :: 15 W. 16th Street NY, NY 10011 . 2023-07-13 . www.cjh.org.
8. Web site: For Libraries at UCLA and Yale, $5 Million Arcadia Fund Gifts Go Beyond Money. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121107112330/http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6639667.html. 2012-11-07.
9. Web site: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) – Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities . 2023-11-20 . www.bbaw.de.
10. Web site: Welcome to the Endangered Archives Program. https://web.archive.org/web/20170911065004/http://eap.bl.uk/index.a4d . 2017-09-11. 2017-09-11 .
11. Web site: Brent . Marc . 2016-09-09 . Peter Baldwin, professor and philanthropist, is appointed to the Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board . 2023-12-27 . Diff.wikimedia.org . en-US.
12. Web site: Thaney . Kaitlin . 2017-09-25 . Matching gift grows Wikimedia Endowment by $10 million . 2023-12-27 . Diff.wikimedia.org . en-US.
13. https://15.wikipedia.org/contributors.html Wikipedia 15 Contributors
14. Web site: Faculty - History: Peter Baldwin . https://web.archive.org/web/20230304151409/http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/peter-baldwin. 2023-03-04. 24 May 2017. University of California.
15. Book: "The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle". 17 May 2016 . 9780691169095 . Baldwin . Peter .
16. Danton . Robert . December 21, 2023 . The Dream of a Universal Library . The New York Review of Books . en-US . 70 . 20 . 73–74.