François Furstenberg

François Furstenberg
Academic background
Education
Dorothy Ross
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican history
Institutions

François Furstenberg is a Canadian and American historian. He taught at the Université de Montréal and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his work on North American history around the time of the American Revolution, particularly on George Washington and slavery and on French émigrés to North America.

Early life and education

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,[1] a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist.[2][3] She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocated for national health care legislation.[4] His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2017.[5][6][7] 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.[8]

Furstenberg received his B.A. from Columbia University (1994) and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (2003),[9][10] where he was advised by Dorothy Ross.[11]

Career

Furstenberg has taught at the Université de Montréal (2003–2014) and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University (2014–), where he has also served as director of undergraduate studies.[10]

His research focuses on the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[10] He has written about George Washington and the history of slavery in the United States, in In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (2006),[10] and the history of French émigrés in the United States in When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation (2014).[12] In the course of writing the second, he was a fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center 2009–2010.[13]

He was a historical consultant for the American Revolution-themed video game Assassin's Creed III 2010–2012.[14]

Furstenberg was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2013,[13][15] and he is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.[16]

Works

  • In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (2006)[17]
  • When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation (2014)[18][19][20]

References

  1. ↑ "Sidney Hollander Dead at 90; Long Active in Social Welfare". The New York Times. 1972-02-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  2. ↑ "Edith Furstenberg, social worker". Baltimore Sun. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  3. ↑ "Edith Furstenberg". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  4. ↑ "Frank F. Furstenberg, Doctor, 92". The New York Times. 1997-08-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  5. ↑ Krystal, Becky; Carman, Tim (May 2, 2017). "Bread Furst's Mark Furstenberg wins James Beard Award". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  6. ↑ "D.C.'s Mark Furstenberg Named James Beard Outstanding Baker". DCist. Archived from the original on June 30, 2019. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  7. ↑ "Our First Clear Failure | breadfurst.com". breadfurst.com. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  8. ↑ Parker, Ashley (2010-10-12). "Carla Cohen, Owner of Washington Bookstore, Dies at 74". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  9. ↑ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (December 2011). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "François Furstenberg". Johns Hopkins University Department of History. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  11. ↑ Wallach, Rachel (29 May 2024). "Renowned historian of modern social science Dorothy Ross dies at 87". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  12. ↑ July-Aug 2014, Bret McCabe / Published (2014-07-01). "JHU history professor's book shows how five French expats shaped America". The Hub. Retrieved 2022-06-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. 1 2 "When the United States Spoke French: François Furstenberg and Anka Muhlstein". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  14. ↑ Nancy, Dominique (December 10, 2012). "Historian François Furstenberg works on the video game Assassin's Creed III". Université de Montréal: udem nouvelles, curated news in English. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Francois Furstenberg". The American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Distinguished Lecturers: François Furstenburg". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
  17. ↑ "Ford Evening Book Talk: François Furstenberg". George Washington's Mount Vernon. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  18. ↑ "Book review: 'When the United States Spoke French' by Francois Furstenberg". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  19. ↑ "Socializing, Speculating, and Speaking French in François Furstenberg's Philadelphia". The Junto. 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  20. ↑ "Book review: 'When the United States Spoke French' by François Furstenberg - Books - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. 2014-08-23. Archived from the original on 2014-08-23. Retrieved 2017-11-09.


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