Peter E. Gordon

Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University, with faculty affiliations in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Government, and Department of Philosophy. He is a resident faculty member at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, where he contributes to research on modern European philosophy and social thought.

• Education: PhD in modern European intellectual history from the University of California, Berkeley (1997); member of Princeton Society of Fellows (1998-2000).

Gordon specializes in Continental philosophy, with deep engagement in the Frankfurt School, existentialism, phenomenology, and Western Marxism. His scholarship explores the intersections of critical theory and modern European social thought, particularly the philosophical dialogues between figures like Adorno, Heidegger, and Max Weber.

Scientific awards include the

• Salo Baron Prize (Jewish history)
• Goldstein-Goren Prize (Jewish philosophy)
• Forkosch Prize (Journal of the History of Ideas)
• Jacques Barzun Prize (American Philosophical Society)

He serves on editorial boards for Constellations, Modern Intellectual History, and New German Critique, and has held visiting positions at the École Normale Supérieure and the School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. His current projects include a biography of Walter Benjamin and a critical study on secularization since Max Weber.