Dr. Emma Rothschild

Biography

Emma Rothschild is the Jeremy Jane Knowles Professor of History and Director of the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University. She is also a Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and a visiting professor at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris. Rothschild is engaged in collaborative research projects at both the University of Cambridge and Harvard, focusing on the exchange of economic, legal, and political ideas as well as visualizing historical networks. Additionally, she serves as an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School. Her works include influential publications such as 'Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment', published by Harvard University Press in 2001, and 'Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History', published in 2011 by Princeton University Press, emphasizing economic history and its relation to nationalism and political thought from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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