He taught at the Université de Montréal and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
His grandmother, Edith H. Furstenberg, was a social worker and daughter of Sidney Hollander,[2] a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist.
[3][4] She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocate for national health care legislation.
[5] His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2017.
[10] His research focuses explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.