Jan E. Goldstein

Jan E. Goldstein (b. 1946) is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

Work

Jan Goldstein obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University 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)
*Conceptions of selfhood and identity
*Historical methodology

In 1982, she won the Chester Penn Higby Prize from the Journal of Modern History, and has served as coeditor since 1996.

Recent Publications

*"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).

*"Foucault and the Writing of History". (Blackwell, 1994).

*"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. 143-67.

*"The Future of French History in the United States: Unapocalyptic Thoughts for the New Millennium," "French Historical Studies" 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. ed., "Biographies of Scientific Objects" (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 86-116.

External links

* [http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/goldstein.html] Official Faculty Webpage
* [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/page/jmh/board.html] Journal of Modern History
* [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/517542] Higby Prize listing