Steven Englund

 

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  Degrees:

BA, MA, Colgate University.

Marshall Scholar, University of Cambridge.

PhD, Princeton University.

 

  Professor of History and Political Science

 

  Academic Department:

History

 

 

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Profile updated: Jan-12

 
 

 

Steven Englund was interviewed by Laetitia de Witt from Canal/Académique on his article in the December issue of La Revue des Deux Mondes, "Napoleon et les Juifs; Deux Cents Ans d'Ambiguité et d'Ambivalence".

 
 
 

 
Steven Englund took a Ph.D. at Princeton after graduate study as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University. Formerly a correspondent for Time magazine, he has worked for President Carter and for UNAIDS. His recent biography, Napoleon, A Political Life (Scribner, 2004) won the Russell Major Award of the American Historical Association as the Best Book on French History, 2004. It also won the award for Best Foreign Book from la Fondation Napoleon, in Paris. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006, and visiting Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2007. He has taught at AUP as Distinguished NYU Professor since 2007.
 
 
 

 

  Books

 

Napoleon, A Political Life (New York: Scribner-Lisa Drew, 2004) Book of Mo. Club Featured Alternate; History Book Club Main Selection; Military History Book Club Main Selection

 

Grace of Monaco, An Interpretive Biography (New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1984) [Book of the Month Club Featured Alternate (May, 1984); Catholic Digest Book Club, Main Selection; Christian Herald Family Bookshelf, Main Selection]

 

Man Slaughter, A True Story of Love, Death, & Justice in America (N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1983). Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize

 

The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960, with Larry Ceplair (Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1980; paperback: U. of California Press, 1983; U. of Illinois Press, 2002)

 

Report of the President's Commission for A National Agenda for the Eighties (Washington, D.C., G.P.O., 1981)

 

Permanent Love, with Edward E. Ford (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1979)

 

Run for Your Life, with Dr. Arthur Mollen (New York: Doubleday, 1978)

 

For the Love of Children, with Edward E. Ford (New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1977)

 
 

  Selected Articles

 

"Reflections on the ‘Late’ Catholic Church in France" [Cover Story], Commonweal, 7 Nov. 2008

 

"Monstre Sacré: The Question of Cultural Imperialism and the Napoleonic Empire", The Historical Journal, 51, 1 (2008)

 

"France’s Future", Commonweal (15 June 2007)

 

Essay on Les Bienveillantes, Foreign Policy (magazine), March/April 2007

 

"La Place des défaites", Le Monde (21 December 2006)

 

"Austerlitz", Le Monde (2 December 2005)

 

"A propos le discours ‘nation’", Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, #52/3 (avr/juin, 2006)

 

"AIDS in Africa, Continent in Despair. Special Rept", World Book Encyclopaedia, Year Book 2001

 

"The Muted Vibrancy of French Catholicism", Commonweal, 18 May 2001

 

"Converting to Religion after Its Demise: Thoughts on Marcel Gauchet and His American Reception", Cross Currents, J. of American Association for Rel. & Intellectual Life (Spring, 1999)

 

"The Ghost of Nation Past", The Journal of Modern History (June, 1992)

 

"Church & State in France since the Revolution", The Journal of Church & State (June, 1992) Introduction and translation: Napoleon, by Roger Dufraisse (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991)

 

"Le Théâtre de la démocratie française, 1789-1990", chapter in Une Histoire de la Démocratie en Europe, edited by Antoine de Baecque (Paris: Le Monde Editions, 1991)

 
 
 

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Departmental Faculty
 
 
 

Steven Englund

Professor of History and Political Science

 

Terence Murphy

Professor of History and Political Science

 

Stephen Sawyer

Assistant Professor of History; Chair, Department of History.

 
 

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