Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn (February 14, 1972- ) is a professor of history at Columbia University. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and sometimes Jewish studies.

He is currently working on a study provisionally entitled "A New Theory of Politics: Claude Lefort and Company in Postwar France", as well as a book on the evolution of human rights 1970s and 80s. He is the codirector of the New York area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History. He is on the editorial board of the journal "Ethics & International Affairs".

He has his A.B. from Washington University of Saint Louis (1994), his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (2000), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (2001). For high school, he attended University City High School (St. Louis).

In 2007, Moyn received Columbia University's annual Mark Van Doren Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching, determined by undergraduates, and its Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for "unusual merit across a range of professorial activities". [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jul_aug07/quads2.php and http://www.columbia.edu/cu/vpas/about/recognition.html] In 2008, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Publications

*"Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics" (2005, Cornell University Press)
*"A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France" (2005, Brandeis University Press)
*Pierre Rosanvallon, "Democracy Past and Future" (2006, editor Samuel Moyn, Columbia University Press)

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/fac-bios/Moyn/faculty.html Moyn's Faculty bio at Columbia University]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/~sam2008/ Moyn's personal website]
* [http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/32513.html History News Network Top Young Historians: Samuel Moyn]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cich/ New York-area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History]
* [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moyn Moyn's review essay in "The Nation" on Lynn Hunt's "Inventing Human Rights"]
* [http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/05/10/mclemee Interview with Moyn about Pierre Rosanvallon and French liberalism]

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