Assistant Professor

History

Curriculum Vitae

Paul Adler joined the History Department at Colorado College in the fall of 2018. Paul's research and teaching focuses on a few key themes. One concerns histories of activist and social movement mobilizations and organizing, examining how people come together, strategize, and act to make social change. Paul also researches recent U.S. political history as well as histories of Global South-Global North relations in the late 20th century, especially around questions of political economy, global governance, and transnational activism. At Colorado College, Paul teaches courses on U.S. history, the "Global Cold War," international political economy, and social movements.

 

His first book, No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality will come out in June 2021, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The book explores how, starting in the late 1970s, public interest advocacy groups (such as Public Citizen, the Sierra Club, etc.) began confronting the rise of global neoliberal politics. It shows how public interest advocates helped bring together unions, liberal politicians, community groups, and more to form what he calls the "fair globalization coalition," a force which rose to become an influential player in U.S. and international politics by the mid-1990s.