Helena Rosenblatt

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Helena Rosenblatt is a Swedish historian specializing in intellectual history. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of History [1] at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and holds similar chairs in French, Political Science, and Biography and Memoir. [2] She is also a member of the Board of Editors of the Tocqueville Review and Global Intellectual History Review. [3] [4]

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Her most prominent work, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century, was named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books in 2018 [5] and its Spanish translation was listed among the Ten Best History Books of the year by El Confidencial. [6] The book has been translated into nine languages and has been the object of multiple media reviews. [7] [8] [9]

She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, [10] and has held fellowships from the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and the Hunter College with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship. [11] In 2010, she received the Prix Benjamin Constant, awarded by the Association Benjamin Constant in Lausanne, for her work on Constant's political philosophy. [12]

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