Helena Rosenblatt

Last updated

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]

Contents

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]

Publications

Books

Edited volumes

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexis de Tocqueville</span> French political philosopher, politician and historian (1805–1859)

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, usually known as just Tocqueville, was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Benjamin Constant</span> Swiss-French politician and writer (1767–1830)

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raymond Aron</span> French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist (1905–1983)

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.

The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, The CUNY Graduate Center is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". The school is situated in the landmark B. Altman and Company Building at 365 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, opposite the Empire State Building. The CUNY Graduate Center has 4,600 students, 31 doctoral programs, 14 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes. A core faculty of approximately 140 is supplemented by over 1,800 additional faculty members from CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harvey Mansfield</span> American political philosopher

Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. is an American political philosopher. He was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007. He is a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Larry Siedentop</span>

Sir Larry Alan Siedentop is an American-born British political philosopher with a special interest in 19th-century French liberalism. He is the author of Democracy in Europe and an occasional contributor to several major British daily newspapers, including the Financial Times and The Times.

Eloise Quiñones Keber was Professor Emeritus of Art History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she specialized in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Latin American art. She earned her Ph.D from Columbia University in 1984.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Manent</span> French political scientist and academic (born 1949)

Pierre Manent is a French political scientist and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron. Every autumn, he is also a visiting teacher in Boston College at the Department of Political Science.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Noël Carroll</span> American philosopher

Noël Carroll is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art. Although Carroll is best known for his work in the philosophy of film, he has also published journalism, works on philosophy of art generally, theory of media, and also philosophy of history. As of 2012, he is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Patrick Diggins</span> American historian (1935–2009)

John Patrick Diggins was an American professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, Princeton University, and the City University of New York Graduate Center.

James T. Kloppenberg is an American historian, and Charles Warren Professor of American History, at Harvard University.

Susan Buck-Morss (1942) is an American philosopher and intellectual historian.

Judith Stein was an American historian, and a Distinguished Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She worked on African American history, social movements, labor and business history, and political economy. Her major works are World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economy and the Decline of Liberalism, and Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance.

Barbara Caine is an Australian feminist historian.

Merle Dorothy Rosenblatt Goldman was an American historian and sinologist of modern China. She was professor of history at Boston University, especially known for a series of studies on the role of intellectuals under the rule of Mao Zedong and on the possibilities for democracy and political rights in present-day China.

Carol C. Gould is an American philosopher and feminist theorist. Since 2009, she has taught at City University of New York, where she is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, and in the Doctoral Programs of Philosophy and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is Director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute. Gould is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Philosophy. Her 2004 book Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights received the 2009 David Easton Award which is given by the American Political Science Association "for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science." Her 2014 book Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice received the 2015 Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Philosophical Association for "an outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences."

Paul Anthony Rahe is an American classicist, historian, writer and professor of history at Hillsdale College. He taught at Yale University, Cornell University, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Tulsa before taking up his present position.

Annabel M. Patterson is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.

Susan Laura Mizruchi is professor of English literature and the William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, religion and culture, literary and social theory, literary history, history of the social sciences, and American and Global Film and TV. Since 2016, she has served as the director of the Boston University Center for the Humanities.

Sarah B. Pomeroy is an American Professor of Classics.

References