François Furstenberg is a

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. He taught at the

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and currently teaches at

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Biography

Furstenberg was born in

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, and grew up in

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, and Washington. His grandmother, Edith H. Furstenberg, was a social worker and daughter of Sidney Hollander, a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist. She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocate for national health care legislation. His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a

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in 2017. His uncle is the

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sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his aunt, Carla Furstenberg Cohen, founded and owned the

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bookstore

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. Furstenberg received his B.A. from

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and Ph.D. from

. His research focuses explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has written about the history of slavery in the United States and the history of French émigrés in the United States. He was elected a member of the

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in 2013.

Works

* ''In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation'' (2006) * ''When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation'' (2014)

References

External links

* http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1569 * https://www.c-span.org/person/?francoisfurstenberg * https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/017/ * http://history.jhu.edu/directory/francois-furstenberg/ Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-historian-stub Johns Hopkins University alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty 21st-century American historians Historians of slavery Academic staff of the Université de Montréal