Helena_Rosenblatt

Helena Rosenblatt

Helena Rosenblatt

Swedish Professor of History

Helena Rosenblatt is a Swedish historian specializing in intellectual history. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of History[1] at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and holds similar chairs in French, Political Science, and Biography and Memoir.[2] She is also a member of the Board of Editors of the Tocqueville Review and Global Intellectual History Review.[3][4]

Her most prominent work, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century, was named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books in 2018[5] and its Spanish translation was listed among the Ten Best History Books of the year by El Confidencial.[6] The book has been translated into nine languages and has been the object of multiple media reviews.[7][8][9]

She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019,[10] and has held fellowships from the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and the Hunter College with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship.[11] In 2010, she received the Prix Benjamin Constant, awarded by the Association Benjamin Constant in Lausanne, for her work on Constant's political philosophy.[12]

Publications

Books

  • The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century (2018). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691170701
  • Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521898256
  • Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourseto the Social Contract, 1749-1762 (1997). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521898256

Edited volumes

  • Thinking with Rousseau, from Machiavelli to Schmitt (2017). Edited with Paul Schweigert. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107513596
  • French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day (2012). Edited with Raf Geenens. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 110751553X
  • The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521856469

References

  1. [1]
    "Herman Bennett and Helena Rosenblatt Named Distinguished Professors, Highest Academic Honor at CUNY". www.gc.cuny.edu.
  2. [2]
    "Rosenblatt, Helena". www.gc.cuny.edu.
  3. [3]
    "Editorial Board | The Tocqueville Review".
  4. [4]
    "Global Intellectual History". Taylor & Francis.
  5. [5]
    "The Best of Books 2018". December 14, 2018.
  6. [6]
    Corroto, Paula (June 25, 2020). "Los 10 mejores libros de historia recién publicados: pestes, mitos, romanos..." elconfidencial.com.
  7. [7]
    Vogt, Justin (September 14, 2018). "Modern Political Ideas" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. [8]
    "The Thought Project - Episode 30 - Interview with Helena Rosenblatt" – via soundcloud.com.
  9. [9]
    Bell, David A. "The Many Lives of Liberalism | David A. Bell" – via www.nybooks.com.
  10. [10]
    "Helena Rosenblatt". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
  11. [11]
    "Helena Rosenblatt, 2000–2001". National Humanities Center.
  12. [12]
    "Jean-Marie Roulin, lauréat du Prix " Benjamin Constant " (Lausanne)". www.univ-st-etienne.fr. October 19, 2018.
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