Anton Matytsin

Anton Matytsin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, specializing in early modern European intellectual and cultural history. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (2013). Prior to joining the University of Florida in 2019, he served as Assistant Professor of History at Kenyon College (2015–2019), a National Humanities Center Fellow (2018–2019), and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University (2013–2015). His research focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, particularly the interplay between skepticism, religion, and the emergence of Enlightenment rationality.

Matytsin’s major publications include The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment (2016), which examines how skepticism reshaped rationality, and co-edited volumes like Let There Be Enlightenment (2018) and The Skeptical Enlightenment (2019). His current book project explores the Académie des inscriptions and its role in redefining historical discipline under Louis XIV.

His teaching portfolio includes courses on early modern Europe, intellectual history, the Scientific Revolution, and the French Revolution. Awards include prestigious fellowships from the National Humanities Center and Stanford’s Mellon Program. His research bridges religious, political, and intellectual dimensions of early modern Europe, emphasizing the complex negotiations between doubt and certainty in shaping modern thought.