[1] He is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago.
His dissertation was titled "The Structure of the Working Class of Marseille in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century," and his advisor was the historian Hans Rosenberg.
He was a long-term member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1975 to 1980.
He has made contributions in the areas of modern French labor, social, cultural and political history, the history of capitalism, and social and cultural theory.
"On the Emergence of Capitalism: Marx, Brenner, and the Troublesome Case of the Dutch," Critical Historical Studies, 11,1 (2024), 1-46.