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]