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Since we did recently note Adam Tooze here as a historian worth noting, it's pleasing to be able to refer you to this long profile (to which I was pointed by History News Network) of Tooze as historian-celebrity-pundit-cover model.
One takeaway: is there, has there ever been, a Canadian university history department that could provoke this kind of salute:
Arriving in New Haven in 2009, he found himself part of a new academic economy. Within the artisanal guild system of Cambridge, “if you’re the salami-maker, that’s what you do.” At Yale, by contrast, “you’re being hired as a senior partner to a small academic consultancy and teaching business with a very large capital base. And so what they’re interested in doing is maximizing your human resource.” Tooze spoke fluent German, so he could teach alongside the Germanists; he knew his military history, so he could join John Lewis Gaddis’s Grand Strategy program and “do the whole Kissinger thing.” He’d found a polymath’s paradise and, in his view, the style that would make his career. The interdisciplinary approach Yale encouraged is “why I’ve ended up with you interviewing me,” he said.
