Biography

Born February 3, 1938. Married, 3 children.

Education and professional career

  • 1958 : Harvard University, B.A. magna cum laude
  • 1960 : Oxford University (Pembroke College), Antonin Besse Scholar, B.A., M.A.
  • 1964 : Harvard University, PhD in History
  • 1964-1967 : Instructor, Harvard University
  • 1972-1981 : Assistant Professor, Harvard University (1972-1981)
  • 1981 : Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University
  • 1977 : Gastprofessor, Friedrich Meinecke Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, Sommer Semester
  • 1980-1981 : Associate Professor, Université de Paris-IV-Sorbonne
  • Summer 1987 : Honorary Chair, University of Lausanne
  • May 1987 : Director of Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
  • Spring 1989 : Lecturer, Instituto de Estudios e Investigaciones Juan March, Madrid
  • May 1996 : Lecturer, Collège de France, Paris
  • 1998-1999 : Visiting Professor at the Collège de France, holding the annual International Chair

Fellowships

  • 1962 : Social Science Research Council
  • 1965 : American Philosophical Society
  • 1976 : Harvard University
  • 1984 : Rockefeller Foundation
  • 1984 : Camargo Foundation
  • 1986 : Guggenheim Foundation

Selected bibliography

Main publications

  • Pont de Montvert. Social Structure and Politics in a French Village

    Higonnet P., Pont de Montvert. Social Structure and Politics in a French Village. 1700-1914, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1971.

  • Class, Ideology and the Rights of Nobles during the French Revolution

    Higonnet P., Class, Ideology and the Rights of Nobles during the French Revolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981.

  • Sister Republics: the Origins of French and American Republicanism

    Higonnet P., Sister Republics: the Origins of French and American Republicanism, Harvard University Press, 1988. (Prix Chinard 1988 de la French Historical Society)

  • Fortune's Favorites. Essays in Economic History

    Higonnet P., Landes D. et Rosovsky H. (éds.), Fortune's Favorites. Essays in Economic History, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991.

  • Goodness Beyond Virtue. Jacobins and the French Revolution

    Higonnet P., Goodness Beyond Virtue. Jacobins and the French Revolution, Harvard University Press, 1998.