Frank Trentmann

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and also a Professor of the History of Morality at the University of Helsinki. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Princeton University and was the director of the £5 million Cultures of Consumption research program. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation. He has been awarded the Whitfield Prize, a Moore Distinguished Fellowship at Caltech, the Austrian Science Book Prize, and the Humboldt Prize for Research by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard University. He lives in London.