John brewer historian biography of albert

IAS Fellow at Ustinov College, Durham University (January &#; March )

John Brewer is the Eli and Eyde Broad professor of Humanities and Social Science at the California Institute of Technology.

Educated at Cambridge University, where he received his Ph.D., he has held faculty positions there, at Yale, Harvard (where he was Chair of the History and Literature Program), UCLA (where he was Director of the Clark Library and the Centre for C17 and C18 Studies), the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Chicago and, since , at Caltech.

He has been awarded research grants and fellowships from the UK Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the Guggenheim, Getty, Humboldt and Mellon Foundations. He was the Ford Lecturer at Oxford University in , and has been a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Munich and a visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale i