Suzanne Desan Explained
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.
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
- Book: Dusan. Suzanne. Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France. 1990. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, NY. 657399411.
- Book: Desan. Suzanne. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. 2004. University of California Press. Oakland. 978-0520939769. 940727096.
- Book: Dusan. Suzanne. Merrick. Jeffrey W.. Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France. 2009. Pennsylvania State University Press. University Park. 978-0271034690. 799709564.
- Book: Desan. Suzanne. Hunt. Lynn. Nelson. William Max. The French Revolution in Global Perspective. 2013. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, NY. 978-0801478680. 893491397.
Notes and References
- Web site: Suzanne Desan. Department of History. University of Wisconsin-Madison. February 28, 2018. 15 May 2017.
- News: Obituaries . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-04-26 . 0190-8286.
- Web site: The Great Courses . 2023-09-02 . www.thegreatcourses.com.
- Web site: Herbert Baxter Adams Prize Recipients. American Historical Association. March 1, 2018.
- Web site: 1998 Search Results. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. February 28, 2018. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20110622013452/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&lower_bound=1998&page=1&query=&upper_bound=1998&x=27&y=14. June 22, 2011.