Robert A. Schneider was editor of the American Historical Review from 2005–15. He received his BA from Yale and his PhD in history from the University of Michigan. He is currently professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington, having previously taught at the Residential College at Michigan, Brandeis University, and the Catholic University of American in Washington, DC. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris; Université Toulouse-Mirail; University of Bristol; and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has received fellowships from the French government (Bourse Chateaubriand) Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and All Souls College, Oxford University.
His publications include Public Life in Toulouse, 1463–1789 (Cornell Univ. Press, 1989); The Ceremonial City (Princeton Univ. Press, 1995); and (edited with Robert Schwartz) Tocqueville and Beyond: Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien (Delaware Univ. Press, 2003). His third book, Dignified Retreat: Writers and Intellectuals in the Age of Richelieu, looks at the intersection of the world of letters and the political culture of this crucial period of state-formation in French history. His most recent book, The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion, is a radical departure from his previous work, in which he explores concept of “resentment” as deployed as an analytical tool for understanding various, mostly right-wing movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.