Biography

 

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is a historian of modern political and intellectual thought with a focus on Europe, and specifically France, and the world from the Cold War to the present.  He primarily concentrates on such topics as the history of the modern global peace movement, international human rights, decolonization, theories of development, political economy, and the intersections of religion and politics. He is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University. He runs a regular interview series at The Nation. He is the reviews and essays editor at Modern Intellectual History and the former managing editor of The Immanent Frame.

He is the editor of: Did It Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America (W.W. Norton)

He is currently work on two books that are both under contract:

Impossible Peace, Improbable War: Raymond Aron and World Order (Yale University Press).

The Global Counter-Revolution: On Religion and Contemporary Populism (W.W. Norton)

His public commentary has appeared in The NationThe GuardianThe AtlanticTimes Literary SupplementDissent Magazine, Foreign Affairs and elsewhere. He has published academic articles in Modern Intellectual HistoryJournal of the History of IdeasGlobal Intellectual History and elsewhere.

You can follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110