Ehsan Ahmed *87

Ehsan died Nov. 13, 2025, in Palm Springs, Calif. 

He was born in Washington, D.C., June 13, 1958, and completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia in 1980. He earned a Ph.D. in Romance languages and literature from Princeton in 1987. The title of his dissertation was “A Crisis of Lyric Identity: French Humanist Responses (1533-1552).” 

Ehsan held faculty positions at Tulane, Stanford, and Louisiana State before embarking on a 23-year career at Michigan State University in 1995. At MSU he taught all levels of French language, culture, and literature, and supported the classics program by teaching Latin. His publications include “Clément Marot: The Mirror of the Prince,” and “The Law and the Song: Hebraic, Christian, and Pagan Revivals in Sixteenth Century France.” Before retiring from MSU in 2018, he focused on the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. 

Ehsan is survived by his brother, Omar; sisters Shirin and Nasim; niece Nancy; nephew Alexander; and long-term partner Dennis Hall.  

Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.