Maurice Samuels (born August 9, 1968) is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University.
Through a seminar series of invited international scholars, an annual conference, and the awarding of faculty and student research grants, YPSA "promotes the study of the perception of Jews, both positive and negative, in various societies and historical moments, and also encourages comparisons with other forms of discrimination and racism.
"[3] The Spectacular Past won the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, awarded by Yale University's MacMillan Center.
[4] Inventing the Israelite and The Right to Difference both received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, given by the Modern Language Association.
Recent courses include "Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century"; "Money and the Novel"; "Jewish Identity and French Culture"; "Realism and Naturalism"; "Fin-de-siècle France"; and "Representing the Holocaust."