Niall Ferguson

Historian

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x203
E-Mail: nfergus@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His books include The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (1999), The House of Rothschild (1999), The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000 (2001), Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2003), Colossus: The Price of American Empire (2004), and The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006). Ferguson has written numerous journal articles and is one of the editors of the Journal of Contemporary History. He also edited Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1999). A senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, Ferguson is currently working on Siegmund Warburg: Finance and Power in the Twentieth Century a biographical study set against the backdrop of European (and global) financial integration after 1945, and Henry Kissinger: Life and Times a biographical study based on the private papers of the former secretary of state. More news and updates may be found at: http://www.niallferguson.org/