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