Robert Darnton
| Robert Darnton | |
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Darnton in 2006
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| Born |
May 10, 1939 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Historian, Librarian |
| Subject | Cultural History, 18th Century France, History of the Book |
| Notable works | The Great Cat Massacre |
| Relatives |
Byron Darnton John Darnton |
Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.
Darnton was born in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1957 and Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. The title of his thesis was Trends in radical propaganda on the eve of the French Revolution (1782-1788). He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. Joining the Princeton University faculty in 1968, he was appointed Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 1999.
On July 1, 2007, he transferred to emeritus status at Princeton, and was appointed Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library, succeeding Sidney Verba,. In January 2016 Ann Blair succeeded him as the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor.
In 1983 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title The Meaning of Mother Goose.
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