Jan Ellen Goldstein (born 1946) is an American intellectual historian of Modern Europe.
Her academic interests include: Her books include Console and Classify, about the birth and development of the French psychiatric profession in the 19th century, which has become a classic in its field.
More recently, Goldstein published The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750–1850, which charts the competition among several French schools of philosophical psychology that vied to replace Sensationalism in the late 18th century.
She has also worked as editor on a volume of the University of Chicago's Readings in Western Civilization series, 19th Century Europe: Liberalism and its Critics[1], a collection of primary source documents used in the History of European Civilization core sequence in the College.
The post is shared by University of Chicago historians John W. Boyer and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson.