Suzanne Desan


Suzanne M. Desan is an American historian. She is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author or editor of four books on French history.

Early life

Suzanne Desan graduated from Princeton University. She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Desan teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History. She is the author of two books and the editor of two more books on French history, especially the French Revolution.
Desan won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association in 1992, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.

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