Darrin McMahon

Darrin M. McMahon is the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor and Chair of the History Department at Dartmouth. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, he is the author or editor of eight books, including Enemies of the Enlightenment (Oxford); Happiness: A History (Atlantic); Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic), History and Human Flourishing (Oxford, ed.), Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (Oxford, ed. with Samuel Moyn), and, most recently, Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (Basic), forthcoming in seven foreign translations. McMahon is the editor of the University of Chicago book series, The Life of Ideas, and from 2018-2013 was co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History. A frequent contributor to the national and international press, he is currently at work on a study of the history of enlightenment in the age of Enlightenment.