Darrin M. McMahon

McMahon is also the editor of History and Human Flourishing (Oxford University Press, 2022); with Ryan Hanley of The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, 5 vols. (Routledge, 2009); with Samuel Moyn, of Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2014); and with Joyce Chaplin of Genealogies of Genius (Palgrave, 2016). 

McMahon has taught as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York University, Yale University, the University of Rouen, the Ecole Normale Supérieur, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and the University of Potsdam.  His writings have appeared frequently in such publications as the New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Literary Review, the New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal. A recipient of major fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, McMahon served as co-editor at the journal Modern Intellectual History from 2018-2023 and also as Vice President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation from 2014-2022.  He is currently at work on a book about lighting and illumination in the Age of Enlightenment.