Jan E. Goldstein

Jan Ellen Goldstein (born 1946) is an American intellectual historian of Modern Europe. She is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago, and co-editor of the Journal of Modern History.

Goldstein obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1978. Her academic interests include:

Her books include Console and Classify, about the birth and development of the French psychiatric profession in the 19th century, which has become a classic in its field. More recently, Goldstein published The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850, which charts the competition among several French schools of philosophical psychology that vied to replace Sensationalism in the late 18th century.

She has also worked as editor on a volume of the University of Chicago's Readings in Western Civilization series, 19th Century Europe: Liberalism and its Critics[1], a collection of primary source documents used in the History of European Civilization core sequence in the College.

She has served since 1996 as co-editor of the Journal of Modern History, the leading journal of intellectual, cultural and political history of Modern Europe. The post is shared by University of Chicago historian John W. Boyer.

Goldstein was a named a Guggenheim fellow in 1992. In 2010, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She was elected president of the American Historical Association for 2014-15.

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