Peter Sahlins

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Peter Sahlins (born April 26, 1957) is an American historian of France and Europe. He was a professor of history at the University of California Berkeley, where he specialized in early modern France. [1] From 2006 to 2008 he was on leave at the Social Science Research Council as its Director of Academic Programs, where he directed the major fellowship programs and led a new environmental programming initiative.

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Biography

Professor Sahlins completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 1979. In 1986, he obtained his doctorate in history from Princeton University. Afterwards he taught at Columbia University and Yale University before joining the history department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, where he has served widely on university and professional committees, was executive director of the France-Berkeley Fund (1994-2002) and founding director of the University of California's Paris Study Center and its constituent international programs. He is a former Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Field major at Berkeley. [2]

His father was Marshall Sahlins, a noted anthropologist.

Work

The interests that form the bulk of Peter Sahlins’ work include the social and legal history of early modern France and Europe. He has written on a range of topics, including the formation of national identities and frontiers (Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenées, UC Press, 1989 ISBN   978-0520074156); Forest Governance, Peasant Culture and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France, Harvard University Press, 1994 ISBN   978-0674308961); State-Building and Immigration in Seventeenth-Century France (with Jean-Francois Dubost, Et si on faisait payer les étrangers? Louis XIV, les immigrés et quelques autres, Flammarion, 1999 ISBN   978-2082118064); The Premodern History of Nationality Law (Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After, Cornell University Press, 2004 ISBN   978-0801488399); and most recently on animals, 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (New York: Zone Books, 2017 ISBN   978-1935408994).

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References

  1. "Department of History, University of California Berkeley | Peter Sahlins". 8 December 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-12-08. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. "Interdisciplinary Studies - Letters & Science - UC Berkeley". 22 January 2014. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2022.