Silvia Sebastiani

Silvia Sebastiani is Directrices d’études (Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she teaches research seminars on Enlightenment historiography and on the ideology of race in the early modern period. Specialist of the Scottish Enlightenment, she has extensively published on the questions of race, gender, animality and history writing in international journals and collective volumes. She is the author of The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress (2013), and the coauthor, with Jean-Frédéric Schaub, of Race et histoire dans les sociétés occidentales (15e-18e siècle) (2021).