Research Expertise and Interest

early modern France, animal-human relations, immigration, citizenship and nationality in pre-modern Europe.

Research Description

Peter Sahlins has taught History at UC Berkeley since 1989. He is the author of several books, including most recently 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (New York: Zone Books, 2017). His work has spanned France and Spain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, focusing on questions of boundaries and identities; immigration, naturalization, and citizenship; the history of forests and forestry in France; and most recently, human-animal relations. He regularly teaches the introductory European History survey course (Europe Since the Renaissance), as well as advanced and graduate courses in a wide variety of subjects. Since 2013, he has directed the Interdisciplinary Studies Field in the Undergraduate Division.