Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and the Director of the European Institute at Columbia University. Previously, he served as the Barton M. Biggs Professor at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. Tooze teaches and conducts research in twentieth-century and contemporary history, with a primary focus on the history of economics, alongside political, intellectual, and military history spanning Europe and the Atlantic world. He is the acclaimed author of Crashed, The Deluge, and The Wages of Destruction, works that have been widely recognized and featured on “Books of the Year” lists by the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Kirkus Reviews, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
Adam Tooze Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and Director of the European Institute
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Professor of Modern German History
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Lecturer in Modern History
Academic History
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Ph.D., Economic History
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B.A., Economics
ACADEMIA
Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and the Director of the European Institute at Columbia University.
Prior to joining Columbia, he taught at Yale University as the Barton M. Biggs Professor and at the University of Cambridge as Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart Fellow in History at Jesus College.
In February 2011, he served as the Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor in Military History at West Point.
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
Tooze is a highly acclaimed historian and author, recognized with numerous awards including the Leverhulme Prize Fellowship, H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, Longman History Today Prize, Wolfson History Prize, and the Los Angeles Times History Prize.
He is the author of several influential books, including Statistics and the German State: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge, which earned him the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History in 2002, and The Wages of Destruction, winner of the 2006 Wolfson History Prize.
His works have been shortlisted for the Kirkus Review, Duff Cooper, and Hessel Tiltman Prizes and have appeared on “Books of the Year” lists from the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
Tooze has also contributed essays, reviews, and commentary to major publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, New Left Review, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Review of Books, Dissent, Die Zeit, Spiegel, TAZ, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.