Jerrold Seigel

Jerrold Seigel is a prominent American historian. He is Professor Emeritus at New York University. He taught for twenty-five years at Princeton University. His book ''Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750'' (2012), won the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize for "the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole." He has been called "one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time" and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Provided by Wikipedia