Prof. Susanna Blumenthal Named a Princeton University Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for 2025-26

Professor Susanna Blumenthal, William L. Prosser in Law, professor in history, and co-director of Minnesota Law’s Program in Law and History, has been named a Laurance S. Rockefeller visiting faculty fellow for 2025-26 at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values. Blumenthal is a scholar of law and history, specializing in the modern United States. Her scholarship is concerned with the problematics of personhood, focusing on conceptions of identity, agency, and responsibility. The author of the award-winning Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture (Harvard University Press, 2016), her work has also appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Law and History Review, and Law and Social Inquiry. While at the University Center for Human Values, she will be working on a book about the duplicitous self, titled The Apprehension of Fraud in Modern America. It explores the ambiguous borderland between capitalism and crime in American culture, with the broader aim of illuminating the historical relationship between law and trust.

Congratulations, Professor Blumenthal!