Samantha Wesner

Samantha Wesner is a historian of eighteenth-century science, revolutionary France and the francophone Atlantic. She defended her dissertation, "Galvanizing the Citizen: Electricity and Revolutionary Energy in the Age of Democratic Revolutions," in May 2022 at Cornell University. Her current book project is an interdisciplinary study of the intersection between electrical science and revolutionary politics at the turn of the nineteenth century. She has been affiliated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) from 2020 to 2022. She is also an editor at Age of Revolutions.