Samantha Wesner

Samantha Wesner is a historian of 18th-century science, revolutionary France and the francophone Atlantic. She defended her dissertation, “Galvanizing the Citizen: Electricity and Revolutionary Energy in the Age of Democratic Revolutions,” in May 2022 at Cornell University. Her current book project is an interdisciplinary study of the intertwined relationship between electrical science and revolutionary politics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Before joining the Science History Institute, she was an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and an invited researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is an editor at Age of Revolutions.