Gareth Stedman JonesFBA (born 17 December 1942) is an English academic and historian.[1] As Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London, he deals particularly with working-class history and Marxism.[2]
He moved to Cambridge in 1974, becoming a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and in 1979, a lecturer in history. He was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1967 to 1970, a senior associate member of St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1971–1972, and an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt in 1973–1974, before becoming a lecturer in history at Cambridge in 1979–1986 and a reader in history of social thought there in 1986–1997.[3] He has served as co-director of the Centre for History and Economics at King's since 1991 and held the post of professor of political science from 1997 to 2010.[4] In 2010 Stedman Jones became Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London.[5]
In 2018, reviewing Stedman Jones's intellectual evolution, historian Terence Renaud described a "journey from the New Left, through French structuralism, to a contextualist practice of intellectual history that leaves Marxism behind."[6]
Publications
Outcast London, Oxford, 1971, reprinted 1984 (with new preface), 1992 and 2002
Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832–1982, Cambridge, 1983
Klassen, Politik, Sprache, edited by {Peter Schöttler}, Munster, 1988
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Harmondsworth, 2002: introduction of 180 pp.
An End to Poverty? London, Profile Books, July 2004[7]
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, published by Allan Lane, August 2016