Ronen Steinberg

Biography

I am an associate professor in the Department of History. I was trained as a historian of the French Revolution. My first book, The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France (Cornell University Press, 2019) examined how those who experienced revolutionary violence in the late eighteenth century struggled to come to terms with it. While working on this book I developed an interest in transitional justice, trauma, and genocide. I have published arti