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Steven Laurence Kaplan (born January 23, 1943) is professor emeritus and former Goldwin Smith Professor of European History in the Department of History at Cornell University. His primary fields of expertise are French history, the history of markets, economic regulation, and political economy, and the history of food, specifically the history of bread, the grain trade and provisioning. [1]
Steven Kaplan was educated through high school in New York City public schools. He graduated summa cum laude in History from Princeton University in 1963. While at Princeton, Kaplan was a student of John William Ward. [2] He then attended the Université de Poitiers in 1964 on a Fulbright scholarship. He received M.A. (1966), M.Phil. (1968) and Ph.D. (1974) degrees from Yale University. [3]
Kaplan joined the Cornell University History Department as Assistant Professor of European History in 1970; he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976 and Full Professor in 1980. In 1990, he was named Goldwin Smith Professor of European History, a post he held until he became emeritus professor in 2011. Kaplan was the founder (1995) and inaugural Director of the Program in French Studies at Cornell University. From 2003-2010, Kaplan spent one semester per academic year as professor of Early Modern French and European History at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin.
He has held numerous visiting professorships, including at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Quatrième Section, the Collège de France (1986), the European University Institute (1987), the Ecole Nationale des Chartes (2001, 2002), the Institute d'Etudes Politiques, Paris (2002, 2010, 2013), the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon (2002), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1995), the Université de Lille (2000) and the Maison européenne des sciences humaines et sociales de Lille (2009), and on numerous occasions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sixième Section, re-organized as the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1981.
Paris-Panthéon-Assas University or Assas University, commonly known as Assas or Paris 2, is a university in Paris. It is considered as the direct inheritor of the Faculty of Law of Paris, the second-oldest faculty of Law in the world, founded in the 12th century.
Pierre Rosanvallon is a French historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history.
Georges Balandier was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and is a member of the Center for African Studies, a research center of the École pratique des hautes études. He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1976. He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95.
Jean Favier was a French historian, who specialized in Medieval history. From 1975 to 1994, he was director of the French National Archives. From 1994 to 1997, he was president of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Henry Laurens is a French historian and author of several histories and studies about the Arab-Muslim world. He is Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary Arab world at the Collège de France, Paris.
Pierre Chaunu was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitative history as the founder of "serial history", he was professor emeritus at Paris IV-Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and a commander of the Légion d'Honneur. A convert to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism, he defended his far-right views most notably in a longtime column in Le Figaro and on Radio Courtoisie.
Maurice Vaïsse is a French historian specialised in international relations and Defence. He is an editorial board member on Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies.
Arundhati Virmani is an Indian historian. She was a reader in history at Delhi University until 1992. She teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Marseille.
Dominique Kalifa was a French historian, columnist and professor.
Jean-Paul Willaime is a French sociologist specialized in contemporary Protestantism, Christian ecumenism, Secularism and religions, theories and methods in the sociology of religions.
Jean-Yves Mollier is a French contemporary history teacher.
Michel Antoine was a French, modernist historian.
Jean-Noël Alexandre Robert is a French orientalist, specialist of the history of Buddhism in Japan and of its Chinese predecessors. His work particularly focus on Tendai and the philology of Sino-Japanese Buddhist texts. He is the author of the French translation of the Lotus Sūtra, seminal text of Mahayana 大乘, from the ancient Chinese text.
Ivan Jablonka is a French historian and writer.
Claude Nicolet was a 20th-21st century French historian, a specialist of the institutions and political ideas of ancient Rome.
Dominique Briquel is a French scholar, a specialist of archaeology and etruscology. Briquel studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1964 to 1969 and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1971 to 1974. Since 1974 he taught Latin at the École Normale Supérieure. From 1984 to 1996 he was a professor of Latin at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Since 1992, he has been Director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, in the department of historical and philological sciences and since 1996, professor of Latin at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
Pierre Toubert is a French historian. He is a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris and the Collège de France. Focusing on medieval history, his most monumental work is Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle (1973), in which he outlines an influential, in-depth study of incastellamento in the Lazio region of Italy.
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg was a French art historian and honorary general curator for heritage, a specialist on Gothic and Romanesque art.
Stéphane Van Damme is historian and Professor of Early Modern History at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France.
Jean-Christophe Attias is a French historian and scholar. He was born to an Algerian Jewish father and a Catholic mother from the Charente.
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