Peter Baldwin
Peter Baldwin
Born	(1956-12-22)December 22, 1956 (age 69)
Occupations	Professor & philanthropist

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

Baldwin's parents were the medieval historiansJenny Jochens andJohn W. Baldwin.^[3]: 450

He was educated atHarvard (MA and PhD, both in History 1980 and 1986), andYale (BA Philosophy and History, 1978).^[4] He has written several books on the comparative history ofEurope andAmerica.

Baldwin also serves on the boards of theNew York Public Library,^[5] theAmerican Council of Learned Societies,^[6] theCentral European University,^[7] and as chair of the board of theCenter for Jewish History.^[8]

With his wifeLisbet Rausing, who is an heir of theTetra Pak fortune, Baldwin co-founded theArcadia 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 promoteopen access.^[9]

Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at theBerlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,^[10] The Endangered Archives Programme at theBritish Library^[11] andFauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund.

Baldwin joined the advisory board of theWikimedia Endowment in 2016.^[12] Baldwin and Rausing gave $5 million to the Wikimedia Endowment in 2017^[13] and are listed among the biggest benefactors to theWikimedia Foundation.^[14]

• 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)^[15]
• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014)^[16]
• 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)^[17]

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