Jan E. Goldstein
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Jan Ellen Goldstein (born 1946) is an American
intellectual historian Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual hist ...
of Modern Europe. She is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the
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, and co-editor of the ''
Journal of Modern History ''The Journal of Modern History'' is a quarterly Peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal covering European intellectual, political, and cultural history, published by the University of Chicago Press. Established in 1929, the journal covers even ...
''.


Scholarship

Goldstein obtained her Ph.D. from
Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
in 1978. Her academic interests include: *French intellectual and cultural history from the 18th through the 20th centuries *History of the human sciences (Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis) *Philosophical conceptions of selfhood and the self *Historical methodology Her books include ''Console and Classify'', about the birth and development of the French psychiatric profession in the 19th century, which has become a classic in its field. More recently, Goldstein published ''The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750–1850'', which charts the competition among several French schools of philosophical psychology that vied to replace
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in the late 18th century. She has also worked as editor on a volume of the University of Chicago's ''Readings in Western Civilization'' series, ''19th Century Europe: Liberalism and its Critics

a collection of primary source documents used in the History of European Civilization core sequence in the College (University of Chicago), College.


Editorship and other activities

She has served since 1996 as co-editor of the ''
Journal of Modern History ''The Journal of Modern History'' is a quarterly Peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal covering European intellectual, political, and cultural history, published by the University of Chicago Press. Established in 1929, the journal covers even ...
'', the leading journal of intellectual, cultural and political history of Modern Europe. The post is shared by University of Chicago historians John W. Boyer and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson. Goldstein was a named a
Guggenheim fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...
in 1992. In 2010, she was named a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...
. She was elected president of the
American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world, claiming over 10,000 members. Founded in 1884, AHA works to protect academic free ...
for 2014–2015.


Select publications

*''Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux'' (Princeton University Press, 2010). *''The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750–1850'' (Harvard University Press, 2005). *''Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century''. (Cambridge University Press, 1987) French translation, 1997. 2nd ed. with new afterword (University of Chicago Press, 2001). *"Of Marx and Marksmanship: Reflections on the Linguistic Construction of Class in Some Recent Historical Scholarship," ''Modern Intellectual History'', 2 (2005): 87–107. *"Bringing the Psyche into Scientific Focus: A Political Account," in Theodore Porter and Dorothy Ross, eds., ''The Cambridge History of Science'', vol. 7: ''The Modern Social Sciences'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 131–153. *"The Case History in Historical Perspective: Nanette Leroux and Emmy von N.," in Muriel Dimen and Adrienne Harris, eds., ''Storms in Her Head: Freud and the Construction of Hysteria'' (New York: Other Press, 2001), pp. 143–167. *"The Future of French History in the United States: Unapocalyptic Thoughts for the New Millennium," ''
French Historical Studies ''French Historical Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering French history. It publishes articles in English and French. The journal is published by Duke University Press on behalf of the Society for French Historical Stu ...
'' 24:2 (Winter 2001): 1–10. *"Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Post-Revolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi," in
Lorraine Daston Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science. She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the U ...
. ed., ''Biographies of Scientific Objects'' (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 86–116. *"Framing Discipline with Law: Problems and Promises of the Liberal State," ''
American Historical Review ''The American Historical Review'' is a quarterly academic history journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association, for which it is an official publication. It targets readers interested in all periods ...
'' 98:2 (April 1993): 364–375. *"The Hysteria Diagnosis and the Politics of Anticlericalism in Late Nineteenth-Century France," ''
Journal of Modern History ''The Journal of Modern History'' is a quarterly Peer review, peer-reviewed academic journal covering European intellectual, political, and cultural history, published by the University of Chicago Press. Established in 1929, the journal covers even ...
'' Vol. 54, No. 2, June 1982.


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Official Faculty WebpageHigby Prize listing
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