Stefanos Geroulanos
Stefanos Geroulanos (born 1979)[1] is an American historian and educator. His books include The Invention of Prehistory (2024).[2][3]
Early life and education
Geroulanos grew up in Greece. He received a BA from Princeton University in 2001 and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2008.[4]
Career
Geroulanos is a professor of history at New York University and director of the Remarque Institute at the University.[5] He is an executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.[4]
Publications
- An Atheism that is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought. Cultural Memory in The Present series. Redwood City, California: Stanford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780804762984.
- Experimente im Individuum: Kurt Goldstein und die Frage des Organismus. With Todd Meyers. Berlin: 2014. ISBN 978-3-94136-030-3.
- Transparency in Postwar France: a Critical History of the Present. Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780804799744.
- The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War. With Todd Meyers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ISBN 9780226556451.[6][7]
- The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins. New York: Boni & Liveright, 2024. ISBN 978-1-324-09612-2.[8][9][10]
References
- ^ https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=find-c&local_base=aut&ccl_term=ica=jo2013790451
- ^ Deresiewicz, William (2024-04-02). "What's So Bad About Asking Where Humans Came From?". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ Jasanoff, Maya (2024-05-06). "What the Origins of Humanity Can and Can't Tell Us". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ a b "About". Stefanos Geroulanos. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ "Books by Professor of History Stefanos Geroulanos". The National Herald. 2025-06-16. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ Wilson, Ross (March 2020). "Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War". The Journal of Modern History. 92 (1): 159–160. doi:10.1086/707267. ISSN 0022-2801.
- ^ "The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War, by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers". Times Higher Education. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ "Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans? (Published 2024)". The New York Times. 2024-04-10. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ Harper, Kyle (2024-04-12). "'The Invention of Prehistory' Review: Facing Deep Time". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2025-10-25.
- ^ Cussen, Oliver (2024-11-11). "Lamentable Stick Figure". London Review of Books. Vol. 46, no. 22. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2025-10-25.