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Dr. Darrin M. McMahon is the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Dartmouth College. Previously, he held the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Chair and served as the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University (2004–2014). He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.A./Ph.D. from Yale University (1998).
His research focuses on modern intellectual history, the Enlightenment, French Revolution, history of happiness, and equality. He authored seminal works including Enemies of the Enlightenment (2001), Happiness: A History (2006), Divine Fury: A History of Genius (2013), and Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (2023). The latter won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2024).
McMahon teaches courses such as Modern European Intellectual History, Happiness: A History, and Great Historians. His scholarship bridges philosophy, cultural studies, and political theory, addressing foundational questions about human flourishing, equality, and intellectual movements.
