Course: A History of the World. Jeremy Adelman

Jeremy Adelman

Jeremy is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University and the Director of the Global History Lab at the University of Cambridge, which is based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities (CRASSH). Author and editor of over a dozen books, his most recent include Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of Humankind from the Beginning to the Present (W. W. Norton, 6th edition 2021), the acclaimed global life-history Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton University Press, 2013), and edited with Gyan Prakash, Inventing the Third World: The Search for Freedom in the Cold War Global South (Bloomsbury, 2022). He has two books coming out in 2024: Earth Hunger: Global Integration and the Need for Strangers (Princeton University Press) and edited with Andreas Eckert, A World of Narratives: Nations, Empires, and Other World Products (Bloomsbury). His Global History Lab is committed to teaching world history in global emergencies. It has enrolled over 200,000 students since it began in 2012, partnering with institutions in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe to extend learning opportunities to refugees and to fractured communities. Adelman is conducting research on a global history of the civil war in El Salvador (1970s-1990s) and a history of human security.

Nerea Fernández Cadenas

Nerea Fernández Cadenas holds a degree in History from the University of León and a PhD from the same institution. She was awarded the prize for the best final degree and master's degree. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She teaches undergraduate and master's degree courses related to Ancient History, cultural heritage and the reception of Antiquity. Her research focuses on Visigothic slates as a source for analysing rural society and the reception of Late Antiquity in the modern world. He has lectured at several universities such as the University of Crete (Greece), Tübingen (Germany) and Warsaw (Poland). He has carried out research stays at the University of Salamanca and the University of Lincoln (UK). He has several publications in international journals such as the Al-Masaq Journal and the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (JMIS). His article "A Critical Review of the Signs on Visigothic slates" has been awarded as the best article published in JMIS (2021).

Elvira Viktória Tamus

Elvira Tamus is the Course Coordinator of the Global History Lab at CRASSH. In this role, she supports and liaises with Teaching Fellows, and co-organises the annual GHL online student conference. Previously, she was a Teaching Fellow for two years, working with students living in the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, and with students enrolled at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Elvira is also a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. She conducts her doctoral research on early modern Franco-Hungarian diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics and great power relations. She has taught European and world history at the Faculty of History and worked as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Geopolitics at CRASSH. She holds a BA in History and French from the University of Leicester and an MA in History from Leiden University.

Richard Latham Lechowick

Dr Richard Latham Lechowick is a Research Associate with the Global History Lab at CRASSH. In this role, he spearheads the Narrative Observatories programme, a peer-led, globally connected research initiative that empowers observers to investigate how stories shape identity and memory, society and conflict, within and between communities.

Dr Lechowick's academic background is multi-disciplinary, with interests spanning International Relations and Conflict Resolution to Ethnography and Oral History to Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Ethno-Political Studies. He authored the 2024 book, 'I Won't Let Them Be Like Me', a study of, and with, Ezidi (Yezidi) women in Northern Iraq who survived the 2014 Sinjar Genocide. Using women's words and stories, the work portrays their daily lives, experiences, memories, and hopes for themselves, their children, their families, and Ezidi society as a whole. He continues to give talks and lead courses on, among other subjects, memory, narrative, and politics, on ethnographic inquiry, skills, and trust-building, and on learning and education in conflict.

An aid-worker and an academic, Dr Lechowick has lived and worked in Iraq, the West Bank, and Aceh, Indonesia. He has also worked in Europe and North America with refugees from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Laos, Somalia, and Syria. In addition to acting as a communications and capacity-building consultant, he has taught classes to refugees and IDPs (Internally-Displaced Persons) in such subjects as English, Theatre, Improv, Music Composition, and Film Production.