Steven L. Englund *81

Steven died of cancer in Bend, Ore., Sept. 20, 2025.

Born Feb. 2, 1945, in Waupaca, Wis., he graduated from Colgate in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. in history from Princeton in 1981. Between his undergraduate and graduate degrees, Steven studied at the University of Dijon and Cambridge University.

He was a correspondent for Time magazine and was an editor of Jimmy Carter’s National Agenda for the Eighties. Steven taught American history at the American University of Paris, was on the faculty of l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and lectured on the French Revolution at L’Université de Paris VIII/Saint Denis.

Steven’s books included Manslaughter and Grace of Monaco. With Larry Ceplair he co-authored The Inquisition in Hollywood. Steven’s book Napoleon, A Political Life won the Napoleon Prize for biography in 2004. With Vincent Curcio, he wrote Charlie’s Prep for John Sexton, then president of NYU. The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is publishing Steven’s The Birth of Antisemitism, in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and France, 1879-1918, to be published in English by Yale University Press. CNRS will also publish Nation-Talk: The Political Use of the Idea of Nation in French History.

Steven’s partner of 43 years, Vincent Curcio, survives him.

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