Jean Heffer

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			directeur d'études emeritus at the EHESS (33) 1 53 63 51 88

Born in 1933, Jean Heffer has been emeritus since September 2002. He was directeur d'études et the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales from 1985 to 2002, and director of the Centre d'études nord-américaines, after teaching history at the Sorbonne (1969-1984). He received his Docteur d'État degree in 1984 for his work on “the New York port and American commerce, 1860-1900,” and is a specialist of economic history and US history.

Among his many works, he notably published Le port de New York et le commerce extérieur américain, 1860-1900 (1986) and United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier (1995, translated 2002), for which he was awarded the Foreign Book Prize by the Organization of American Historians, 1997, and the Kiriyama Prize Notable Title in Nonfiction, 2002. He currently works on rural history: land transfer in Lincoln County, Missouri, in the Civil War decade (1860-1870).

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