John Raimo received his education at Princeton and Oxford Universities prior to studying history at Columbia University, l’École normale supérieure, and l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. John completed a PhD. in the modern European history at the Department of History at New York University. He now works as a postdoctoral fellow in the Max Weber Program of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has lived in the US, Britain, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, and Italy. John’s broader fields of interest include modern European history, bibliography, historiography, the history of scholarship, and intellectual history. Some research interests include postwar Czech, French, German, and Italian intellectual history the history of the book, the history of reading, publishing history, and historiography.

His personal interests include cinema, contemporary literature, music, and politics. In his spare time, John enjoys cooking, hiking, learning new languages, listening to and playing all sorts of music, photography, running, skiing, translating, travel, and writing.

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