Background
DARNTON, Robert was born on May 10, 1939 in New York, New York, United States. Son of the late Byron Damton and Eleanor Damton.
DARNTON, Robert was born on May 10, 1939 in New York, New York, United States. Son of the late Byron Damton and Eleanor Damton.
Harvard University, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Fellow, Harvard University, 1965-1968. Assistant Professor, subsequently Association Professor, Professor, Princeton University since 1968, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor, of European History since 1984, Director Program in European Cultural Studies since 1987. Fellowships and visiting professorships including: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1971, 1981, 1985, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study 1976-1977, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1977-1981, Oxford University (George Eastman Visiting Professor) 1986-1987, College de France.
Fellow American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Antiquarian Society.
President Institute Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1987-1991.
Board of directors, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, Social Science Research Council 1988-1991. Various editorial boards.
Married Susan Lee Glover in 1963.