Education
Professor Sahlins completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 1979.
Professor Sahlins completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 1979.
He is Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley, where he specializes in early modern France. From 2006 to 2008 he was on leave at the Social Science Research Council as its Director of Academic Programs, where he directed the major fellowships programs and led a new environmental programming initiative. In 1986 he obtained his doctorate in history from Princeton University.
Afterwards he taught at Columbia University and Yale University before joining the history department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, where he has served widely on university and professional committees, was executive director of the France-Berkeley Fund(1994-2002) and founding director of the University of California’s Paris Study Center and its constituent international programs.
He returned to Berkeley.