Emma Rothschild
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Emma Georgina Rothschild
)
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| Relatives | Rothschild family Rothschild banking family of England |
Emma Georgina Rothschild
She is a member of the
Rothschild family
.
Early life and education
Rothschild was born in
Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).
Professorships
From 1978 to 1988, she was an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and also taught at the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She then was a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and continues to be an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the Cambridge History faculty.[4]
Academic achievements, awards and honours
In recognition of her services to Britain's international cultural and academic relations, Rothschild was made a Companion of the
New Year Honours 2000. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002.[5] She is a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[6]
She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.[7]
Personal life
In 1991, Rothschild married the Indian economist and
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
.
Publications
She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Some of her publications are:
- Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age (1973)
- Common Security and Civil Society in Africa (1999) (Co-Editor)
- Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (2001)
- Language and Empire, circa 1800 (Historical Research, 2005)
- A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic (Past and Present) (2006)
- The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (2011)
- An Infinite History. The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (2021)
See also
References
- ^ "Emma Rothschild :: Centre for History and Economics".
- ^ Rothschild. "Research Project: project description". Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ Noel Annan and James Ferguson (31 May 1996). "Obituary: Teresa, Lady Rothschild - People - News". The Independent. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
- ^ Guha, I. "Interview: Emma Rothschild". The Cambridge Student. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ "Emma Rothschild".
- ^ "Emeritus and Honorary Fellows". Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
