Suzanne M. Desan | |
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Born | 1957 |
Alma mater |
Princeton University University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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 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]
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]
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