Suzanne Desan

Suzanne M. Desan (born 1957) is an American historian. She is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author or editor of four books on French history.

Early life
Suzanne Desan graduated from Princeton University. She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her sister is Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School (also a graduate of Princeton).

Career
Desan teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History. She is the author of two books and the editor of two more books on French history, especially the role of women in the French Revolution. She is also the author of a series of lectures produced by The Great Courses, entitled "Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon".

Desan won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association in 1992, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.