Jason Rozumalski is a historian of Europe (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; MPhil. University of Cambridge; and B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison) as well as an academic administrator specializing in the development of global humanities-based programming.
As an academic, Rozumalski specializes in the political and cultural histories of Europe while cultivating diverse interdisciplinarity. He taught at UC-Berkeley in the Department of History, the Department of the History of Art, and in International Area Studies as well as courses in Economics, Law, and Political Science. He has held academic positions and residencies at Yale, Cambridge, the University of London, the University of Oslo, Johns Hopkins, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Huntington Library while also receiving major research and professional awards from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Rozumalski’s scholarship includes studies of popular culture influencing early state formation, the affect of love in modern authoritarian regimes, and public trust in political structures during times of civil war.
As an administrator, Rozumalski creates and manages humanities-based educational and research programs that are global in scale, intellectually inclusive, and academically rigorous. He has served as the Executive Director of the Peder Sather Center (an institute for advanced studies funding research partnerships between UC-Berkeley and leading Norwegian universities) and as the Global Programs Strategist for a network of universities and institutes throughout the world that included on-site projects in East Africa, South Asia, and the Balkans. He has managed projects in partnership with UNESCO and social science research councils in Europe (CIPSH), Africa (CODESRIA), the Arab states (ACSS), and Latin America (CLACSO) as well as individual partnerships with Stanford, National Taiwan University, Harvard, the University of Melbourne, and elsewhere. Projects in his care have received significant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation.
In his personal life, Jason is a long-distance cyclist and wild camper having spent years living off his bike. He shares his life with an egregiously elegant dog, a feral cat, and a chemist of rare elements.