François Furstenberg | |
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Discipline | American history |
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François Furstenberg is a historian. He taught at the Université de Montréal and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. [1]
Furstenberg was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington. His grandmother, Edith H. Furstenberg, was a social worker and daughter of Sidney Hollander, [2] a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist. [3] [4] She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocate for national health care legislation. [5] His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2017. [6] [7] [8] His uncle is the University of Pennsylvania sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his aunt, Carla Furstenberg Cohen, founded and owned the Chevy Chase bookstore Politics and Prose. [9]
Furstenberg received his B.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. [10] His research focuses explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [11] He has written about the history of slavery in the United States and the history of French émigrés in the United States. [12]
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2013. [13]
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François Furstenberg | |
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Academic background | |
Education | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | American history |
Institutions |
François Furstenberg is a historian. He taught at the Université de Montréal and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. [1]
Furstenberg was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington. His grandmother, Edith H. Furstenberg, was a social worker and daughter of Sidney Hollander, [2] a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist. [3] [4] She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocate for national health care legislation. [5] His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2017. [6] [7] [8] His uncle is the University of Pennsylvania sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his aunt, Carla Furstenberg Cohen, founded and owned the Chevy Chase bookstore Politics and Prose. [9]
Furstenberg received his B.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. [10] His research focuses explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [11] He has written about the history of slavery in the United States and the history of French émigrés in the United States. [12]
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2013. [13]
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