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Helena Rosenblatt is a Swedish historian specializing in intellectual history. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of History^[1] at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and holds similar chairs in French, Political Science, and Biography and Memoir.^[2] She is also a member of the Board of Editors of the Tocqueville Review and Global Intellectual History Review.^[3][4]

Her most prominent work, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century, was named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books in 2018^[5] and its Spanish translation was listed among the Ten Best History Books of the year by El Confidencial.^[6] The book has been translated into nine languages and has been the object of multiple media reviews.^[7][8][9]

She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019,^[10] and has held fellowships from the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and the Hunter College with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship.^[11] In 2010, she received the Prix Benjamin Constant, awarded by the Association Benjamin Constant in Lausanne, for her work on Constant's political philosophy.^[12]

Publications

Books

• The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century (2018). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691170701
• Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521898256
• Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourseto the Social Contract, 1749-1762 (1997). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521898256

Edited volumes

• Thinking with Rousseau, from Machiavelli to Schmitt (2017). Edited with Paul Schweigert. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1107513596
• French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day (2012). Edited with Raf Geenens. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 110751553X
• The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521856469

References