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

University of Chicago

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Work

Jan Goldstein obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 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

Award

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

Recent 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).

• 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
  Lorraine Daston
  Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin...
  
  . 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