Samuel Moyn is a professor of history at 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...

. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history

Intellectual history

Note: this article concerns the discipline of intellectual history, and not its object, the whole span of human thought since the invention of writing. For clarifications about the latter topic, please consult the writings of the intellectual historians listed here and entries on individual...

, with special interests in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, political and legal thought, mathematical and critical theory, and sometimes Jewish studies.

He is the co director of the New Haven area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History. He is Editor of the journal Humanity, and has editorial positions at several other publications.

He has his A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

 (1994), his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (2000), and a J.D. from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 (2001). For high school, he attended University City High School (St. Louis)

University City High School (St. Louis)

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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". In 2008, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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Moyn is the editor of the academic journal Humanity

Humanity (journal)

Humanity is a peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern world. Contributions come from the fields of anthropology, law, literature, history, philosophy, and politics. The journal is published biannually by the University of...

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Publications

• Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas
  Emmanuel Lévinas
  Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...
  
   between Revelation and Ethics (2005, Cornell University Press)
• A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (2005, Brandeis University Press)
• The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010, Harvard University Press)
• Pierre Rosanvallon
  Pierre Rosanvallon
  Pierre Rosanvallon is a French intellectual and historian, named professor at the Collège de France in 2001. He holds there the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. His works are dedicated to the history of democracy, French political history, the role of the state and...
  
  , Democracy Past and Future (2006, editor Samuel Moyn, Columbia University Press)

External links

• Samuel Moyn interview on Counterpoint Radio with Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities at the University of Memphis.
• Moyn's Faculty bio at Columbia University
• Moyn's personal website
• History News Network Top Young Historians: Samuel Moyn
• New York-area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
• Moyn's review essay in "The Nation" on Lynn Hunt's "Inventing Human Rights"
• Moyn's review essay in "The Nation" on Gary Bass's "Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention"
• Moyn's review essay in "The Nation" on Jonathan Littell's novel "The Kindly Ones"
• Interview with Moyn about Pierre Rosanvallon and French liberalism