Samuel Moyn (born 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, 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 (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".[1] In 2008, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Moyn is the editor of the academic journal Humanity.