Sophia Rosenfeld Appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North

Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History,  has been appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North by the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Rosenfeld, who is also Chair of the Department of History, is an expert in European intellectual and cultural history, with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the 18th century for modern democracy. She has authored multiple books, including A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France; Common Sense: A Political History; and Democracy and Truth: A Short History. Her articles and essays have appeared in leading scholarly journals, including the American Historical Review, the Journal of Modern History, French Historical Studies, and the William and Mary Quarterly, as well as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, and The Nation. From 2013 through 2017, she co-edited the journal, Modern Intellectual History.

Rosenfeld has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Mellon Foundation, both the Remarque Institute and the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as visiting professorships at the University of Virginia School of Law and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

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