Suzanne M. Desan (born 1957) is an American historian. She is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author or editor of four books on French history.

Early life

Suzanne Desan graduated from Princeton University.^[1] She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] Her sister is Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School (also a graduate of Princeton).^[2]

Career

Desan teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History.^[1] She is the author of two books and the editor of two more books on French history, especially the role of women in the French Revolution.^[1] She is also the author of a series of lectures produced by The Great Courses, entitled "Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon".^[3]

Desan won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association in 1992,^[4] and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.^[5]

Works

• Dusan, Suzanne (1990). Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. OCLC 657399411.
• Desan, Suzanne (2004). The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520939769. OCLC 940727096.
• Dusan, Suzanne; Merrick, Jeffrey W., eds. (2009). Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0271034690. OCLC 799709564.
• Desan, Suzanne; Hunt, Lynn; Nelson, William Max, eds. (2013). The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801478680. OCLC 893491397.