Sarah Horowitz

Assistant Professor of History

Education

• Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
• M.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
• B.A. in History and Art History, summa cum laude, Wellesley College, 1999

Research

Research Interests: The political, cultural and social history of post-Revolutionary France
Current Research: Professor Horowitz is currently examining the importance of friendship for French elites in the early nineteenth century. She is particularly- interested in how politicians used friendship as a way to navigate and understand the new social and political world created by the Revolution, and how friendship could be used to heal some of the traumas of the Revolution and overcome the divisions within French society.

Teaching

Areas: Modern European history, French history from the seventeenth century to the present, history of women in Europe