Faculty Fellow
Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Science
Project: Blood Libel in an American Town: Massena, NY 1928
Edward Berenson, a professor of history at NYU, is a cultural historian specializing in the history of modern France and its empire, with additional interests in the history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States. He is the author or editor of the following books: Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France, Princeton, 1984; The Trial of Madame Caillaux, Berkeley, 1992; Heroes of Empire, Berkeley, 2010; Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th-Century Europe, New York, 2010; The French Republic: History, Values, Debates, Ithaca, 2011; The Statue of Liberty. A Transatlantic Story, New Haven, 2012; Europe in the Modern World, New York, 2016. Berenson has won distinguished teaching awards from UCLA and the American Historical Association and, in 2006, was decorated by the French government as Chevalier dans l’ordre du mérit.