Sophia Rosenfeld

Sophia Rosenfeld is an American historian specializing in European intellectual and cultural history with an emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the eighteenth century for modern democracy. She is currently Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.^[1]

Life and career

Rosenfeld graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in 1984 and received the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.^[2]

Rosenfeld received her B.A. from Princeton University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996. Before coming to the University of Pennsylvania Rosenfeld previously taught at the University of Virginia and Yale University.^[3]

Works

• Democracy and Truth (forthcoming, due 2018; under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press)
• The Choices We Make: The Roots of Modern Freedom (forthcoming; under contract with Princeton University Press)
• Common Sense: A Political History (Harvard University Press, 2011; paperback 2014) ISBN 9780674284166.
• A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 2001; paperback 2004) ISBN 9780804749312.
• A Cultural History of Ideas (6 volume series covering antiquity to present, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic), General Editor (with Peter Struck, Classics, University of Pennsylvania), in progress.

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