Jonathan Sheehan

Professor, History
University of California, Berkeley
CSTMS Research Unit: CSTMS
Affiliation period: November 2023 -
sheehan@berkeley.edu
Degrees PhD :: University of California, Berkeley (1999)
BA :: Brown University (1991)

Jonathan Sheehan is a professor of early modern European history at the University of California, Berkeley. His work concerns broadly the histories of religion, scholarship, and science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most recently, he is coauthor, with Dror Wahrman, of Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 2015). His previous book, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Princeton, 2005), won the George Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. His recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern History, Representations, Prooftexts, the Journal of the History of Ideas, and Past and Present.

last updated: December 1st, 2023