Liah Greenfeld
Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology at Boston University, recognized as "one of the most original thinkers of the current period" and "the great historian of Nationalism." Her influential works include Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (1992), The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth (2001), and Mind, Modernity, Madness (2013).
She has held prestigious fellowships at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and other institutions.
Her 2004 Gellner Lecture launched research connecting modern culture to mental illness.
