Suzanne Desan
American historian (born 1957)
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Suzanne M. Desan (born 1957) is an American historian. She is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the author or editor of four books on French history.
Suzanne M. Desan | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Education | Princeton University University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Early life
Suzanne Desan graduated from Princeton University.[1] She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Her sister is Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School (also a graduate of Princeton).[2]
Career
Desan teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History.[1] She is the author of two books and the editor of two more books on French history, especially the role of women in the French Revolution.[1] She is also the author of a series of lectures produced by The Great Courses, entitled "Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon".[3]
Desan won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association in 1992,[4] and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.[5]
Works
- Dusan, Suzanne (1990). Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. OCLC 657399411.
- Desan, Suzanne (2004). The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520939769. OCLC 940727096.
- Dusan, Suzanne; Merrick, Jeffrey W., eds. (2009). Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0271034690. OCLC 799709564.
- Desan, Suzanne; Hunt, Lynn; Nelson, William Max, eds. (2013). The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801478680. OCLC 893491397.
