Peter Lewis Allen (author)
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Peter Lewis Allen is a scholar, author, and educator. He earned a B.A.
in classics
and English from Haverford College
, a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago
and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.
Allen has taught literature at Princeton University
, USC, and Pomona College
. His major research concerns include culture, history, and sexuality. Allen continues to enhance the scholarship concerning AIDS and the LGBT community.
Among Allen’s publications is the book, The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present. In 2007, Allen donated his collection of safe sex pamphlets to the Fales Library at NYU. This collection contains material relating to sexual health issues from 1974-2007.
Peter Allen moved from academia into the business world when he graduated from Wharton in 2000. He worked at McKinsey & Company in New York from 2000 to 2007, when he moved to San Francisco to become the Director of Google University (Google, Inc.).
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in classics
Classics
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...
and English from Haverford College
Haverford College
Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...
, a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.
Allen has taught literature at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, USC, and Pomona College
Pomona College
Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member...
. His major research concerns include culture, history, and sexuality. Allen continues to enhance the scholarship concerning AIDS and the LGBT community.
Among Allen’s publications is the book, The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present. In 2007, Allen donated his collection of safe sex pamphlets to the Fales Library at NYU. This collection contains material relating to sexual health issues from 1974-2007.
Peter Allen moved from academia into the business world when he graduated from Wharton in 2000. He worked at McKinsey & Company in New York from 2000 to 2007, when he moved to San Francisco to become the Director of Google University (Google, Inc.).