Jeremy Eichler is the John McCann Assistant Professor of Music at Tufts University. A writer, critic and historian, he served for 18 years as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe. Eichler is the author of "Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War" (Alfred A. Knopf), which was named "History Book of the Year" by The Sunday Times of London and described as "the outstanding music book of this and several years" by The Times Literary Supplement. Chosen as a notable book of 2023 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR, it won three National Jewish Book Awards including "Book of the Year" and was a finalist for the UK's premier nonfiction award, the Baillie Gifford Prize. It has been translated into eight languages.
Eichler earned his Ph.D. in European History from Columbia University, and his work has been supported by a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a fellowship from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2024, he was named the first Writer-in-Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
