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Ann M. Blair

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American historian

United StatesWritersBorn 1961 · age 65
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Ann M. Blair is an American historian, and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, with an emphasis on France.

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2025Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
MacArthur Fellows Program
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Ann M. Blair is an American historian, and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, with an emphasis on France. Her interests include the history of the book and of reading, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, and the history of interactions between science and religion. She is widely known for her bestselling book, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (2010). Blair was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2009. She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

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Born 1961 · age 65
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