Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and directed the GBP5 million Cultures of Consumption research program. His last book, Free Trade Nation, won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. He was educated at Hamburg University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard University. He has been the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University, the University of St. Gallen, the British Academy, and the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. In 2014 he was awarded the Moore Distinguished Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology.
