No free photograph
Ann M. Blair
American historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65
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.
Ann M. Blair is read about 9.5 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?Awards
About this person
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.
