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SOPHIA ROSENFELD Education: Harvard University, Ph.D. in History SOPHIA ROSENFELD Education: Harvard University, Ph.D. in History, 1996; Princeton University, B. A. summa in History, 1988 Current Employment: Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 2017- Previous Employment: Professor of History, Yale University, 2015-2016; Professor of History (and previously Associate and Assistant Professor of History), University of Virginia, 1995-2016 Fellowships and Visiting Appointments: Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton), 2014- 15; Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2013-14; American Philosophical Society Senior Library Fellow, 2013-14; Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, 2008-09; Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 2004; ACLS Burkhardt Fellow, 2004-5; Mellon New Directions Fellow, 2003-04; Remarque Institute at NYU Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2000 Major Publications: *Common Sense: A Political History (Harvard, 2011), winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize (2012) and the Society for the History of the Early American Republic Book Prize (2011); translated into French and Korean *A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France (Stanford, 2001) *Refereed articles in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, William and Mary Quarterly, Early American Studies, French Historical Studies, National Identities, etc. *Articles in edited volumes on European, American, and global history, including recently The Worlds of American Intellectual History, ed. Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg et al (2016); The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, ed. Joseph Miller (2015); A Cultural History of the Senses in the Enlightenment, ed. Anne Vila (2014); Penser l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Antoine Lilti and Céline Spector (2014); and The Concept of Humanity in an Age of Globalization (2012), ed. Zhang Longxi *Review essays and non-academic articles in The Nation, Dissent, The Washington Post, etc. Work-in-Progress: *The Choices We Make: The Roots of Modern Freedom, to be published by Princeton University Press *A Cultural History of Ideas, from Antiquity to the Present, 6 vols., co-edited with Peter Struck (Classics), to be published by Bloomsbury *Co-Editor of Modern Intellectual History (journal) since 2013 Primary Research: history of democracy and human rights; history of speech; history of epistemology and the senses; the Age of Revolutions; the Enlightenment and its legacy .
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