Rate My Professor Jan Goldstein

Her major publications include Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century (1987, second edition 2001), which examines the professionalization of psychiatry and won the AHA's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize; The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 (2005), analyzing competing psychological theories and their institutionalization, awarded the David Pinkney Prize; and Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux (2010), a microhistory probing text-context relations and Foucauldian-Freudian compatibilities. She edited Foucault and the Writing of History (1994) following a conference she organized. Since 1996, Goldstein has co-edited the Journal of Modern History. She supervised over 25 doctoral students, received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. In 2013, she was elected president of the American Historical Association for 2014, delivering her address on empirical history of moral thinking via racial theory in mid-nineteenth-century France.