Suzanne Desan

Suzanne M. Desan
Suzanne M. Desan
Born	1957 (age 67–68)
Education	Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
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.

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.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Suzanne Desan". Department of History. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 15 May 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
^ "Obituaries". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
^ "The Great Courses". www.thegreatcourses.com. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
^ "Herbert Baxter Adams Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
^ "1998 Search Results". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved February 28, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)