Field-Of-Study: Intellectual and Cultural History

Devin Fore is an Associate Professor of German at Princeton University, where he also teaches in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in Media + Modernity. After receiving his Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2005, he taught briefly as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Cornell. Though he writes increasingly

Ann Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on book history, science and religion, and early modern Europe (with an emphasis on France). She has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and was named Harvard College Professor in 2009 in recognition of her dedication to teaching. Blair

Catherine Prendergast is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also an affiliate of the Russian, East-European, and Eurasian Center.  In 2008 she was awarded the title of University Scholar, one of the highest honors in the University of Illinois multicampus system. She has served as Director of First Year

Sophia Rosenfeld is an intellectual and cultural historian at the University of Virginia.  Her work focuses largely on the eighteenth century and the long afterlife of Enlightenment and revolutionary modes of thought.  She is especially interested in revealing the histories behind the basic (and often little noticed) assumptions and attitudes that structure contemporary life, particularly

Leah Price is Professor of English at Harvard University, where she teaches the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, gender studies, and the history of books and reading.  In 2006 Price was awarded a chai

James Johnson is a cultural historian at Boston University who writes and teaches about modern and early modern Europe.  His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France, the history of Venice, and music history.  His work aims to capture the inner experience of people in the past. Johnson’s book Listening in Paris: A Cultural History

Maya Jasanoff is a Professor of History at Harvard University, where her teaching and research focus on the history of the British Empire. She is the author of Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (Knopf, 2005), which investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors

Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College in the Department of Religion. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the Wissenschaft des Judentums. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press),

Laure Murat (Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) is a cultural historian, specialized in the history of literature, psychiatry, and gender studies. She is professor in the department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches the literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her