Anne Goldgar

Anne Goldgar is an American historian, author and academic, specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth century European cultural and social history, and of Francophone culture across Europe. She holds the inaugural Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the University of Southern California Dornsife. She was previously professor of early modern history at King's College London, UK. In 2016/7 she was a Descartes Theme Group Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Education She is a graduate of Princeton University and received her M.A. and PhD from Harvard University. Her dissertation was entitled: Gentlemen and Scholars: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750.

Works Goldgar is the author and editor of several books including: Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (University of Chicago Press, 2008). In his review for the Financial Times, Simon Kuper states that: 'Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: "Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.". . . She tells a new story.'. She is the editor of Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society, along with Robert Frost (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004).