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Carolyn Dean is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French at Yale University, specializing in modern European cultural and intellectual history with a focus on genocide studies and the Holocaust. Her research explores intersections of ideas, culture, and victim representation, particularly in 20th-century contexts. She has authored six books, including The Moral Witness and Aversion and Erasure, which analyze historical testimony and victimhood discourses.
Dean’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, and the prestigious 1996 Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year Award. Her work bridges gender/sexuality studies and French intellectual theory, contributing to debates on empathy, moral witnessing, and historical memory.
Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding genocidal violence representation and the ethical challenges of conveying traumatic histories. Dean’s publications consistently address how societies process atrocities through cultural and legal frameworks, shaping contemporary understandings of historical responsibility.
