Suzanne Desan

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. She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career Desan teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History.

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

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