Darrin M. McMahon
David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor of History at Dartmouth College
Email: [email protected]
Born in Carmel, California, and educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, McMahon is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), which has been translated into twelve languages and was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Library Journal, and Slate Magazine; Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic Books, 2013); and Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (Basic Books, 2023). In addition, McMahon is the editor of History and Human Flourishing (Oxford University Press, 2022), and also, with Joyce Chaplain, of Genealogies of Genius (Palgrave 2015); with Ryan Hanley, of The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, 5 vols. (Routledge, 2009), and, with Samuel Moyn, of Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2014).
A recipient of major fellowships from the Mellon and Guggenheim Foundations, McMahon has taught as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York University, Yale University, the University of Rouen, the École Normale Supérieur, the École des Hautes Études, and the University of Potsdam. His writings have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, the New Republic, and Slates. He writes regularly for the Literary Review in London. He is former co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, and is the series editor of the University of Chicago Book Series, The Life of Ideas.
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History
Email:ratnerrosenh@wisc.edu
Biography
My specialization is U.S. intellectual and cultural history. My research and teaching interests include the history of philosophy, political and social theory, religion, literature, and the visual arts; the transatlantic flow of intellectual and cultural movements; print culture; and cultural studies. I teach a range of courses on U.S. thought and culture, and intellectual and cultural history from a transnational perspective.
Education
Ph.D., Brandeis University
B.A., University of Rochester
Books
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Co-editor), Joel Isaac (Co-editor), James T. Kloppenberg (Co-editor), and Michael O’Brien (Co-editor). The Worlds of American Intellectual History. Oxford Universiity Press, 2016.
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Co-editor), James L. Baughman (Co-editor), and James P. Danky (Co-editor). Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent since 1865. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
