Peter Baldwin received his B.A. from Yale in 1978 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1986.
He has published The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990); editor, Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate (Beacon Press, 1990), Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Disease and Democracy: The State Faces AIDS in the Developed World (University of California Press and Milbank Foundation, 2005).
Mr. Baldwin is currently working on a comparative history of privacy.