Jeremy Popkin is the author of A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution. Published by Basic Books, The New York Review of Books called it “a deeply satisfying account of the inevitable messiness of rapid change.”
Jeremy holds the William T. Bryan Chair Professorship at the University of Kentucky. His interests include the history of the French and Haitian revolutions and the topic of autobiographical literature. His previous books include You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery, which was short-listed for the Cundill Book Prize and awarded the J. Russell Major Prize and the Pinkney Book Award. Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789-1799, was the winner of the Smith Prize from the Southern History Association
He has held fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Newberry Library,