Steven Kaplan (historian)

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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. He has held visiting positions in Germany, Italy, Belgium and France. His primary fields of expertise are French history, the history of markets, economic regulation, and political economy, the history of work and apprenticeship, aspects of the French Revolution, and the history of food, specifically the history of bread, the grain trade and provisioning. [1]

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Biography

Kaplan graduated summa cum laude in History from Princeton University in 1963. While at Princeton, Kaplan was a student of John William Ward [2] and Charles C. Gillispie. 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.[ citation needed ]

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 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy (1987), the École Nationale des Chartes (2001, 2002), Sciences Po Paris (2002, 2010, 2013), the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon (2002), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1995), the University of Lille (2000) and the Maison européenne des sciences humaines et sociales de Lille (2009), and the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sixième Section, re-organized as the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris in 1981.[ citation needed ]

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  1. "Steven Kaplan". 8 April 2020.
  2. "His Daily Bread". 29 March 2018.
  3. "For the Love of Bread".