{{short description|American historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name = | birth_date = | death_date = | discipline = French history | education = {{Plain list| * Columbia University (B.A.) * Princeton University (Ph.D.) }} | image = | workplaces = {{Plain list| * Columbia University }} | children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = | awards = Leo Gershoy Award (1994) }}

'''Isser Woloch''' (born 1937{{r|Writers Directory 2005}}) is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His work focuses on the French Revolution and on Napoleon Bonaparte.

==Early life== Woloch was educated at Columbia University (A.B., 1959) and Princeton University<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/06/03/archives/nancy-spelman-is-future-bride-of-isser-woloch-graduate-of-wellesley.html |title=Nancy Spelman Is Future Bride Of Isser Woloch; Graduate of Wellesley And Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton Engaged |work=The New York Times |date=June 3, 1962 |page=106 |issn=0362-4331 |accessdate=February 1, 2011 |url-access=limited}}</ref> (Ph.D., 1965).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/10/style/dana-goldberg-david-woloch.html |title=Dana Goldberg, David Woloch |work=The New York Times |date=October 10, 1999 |at=Section 9, p. 10 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{proquest|431268611}} |accessdate=February 1, 2011 |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/arts/television-radio-a-biographer-of-presidents-tackles-an-emperor.html |department=Television/Radio |title=A Biographer of Presidents Tackles an Emperor |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 5, 2000 |at=Section 2, p. 12 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{proquest|91359053}} |last1=Loos |first1=Ted |url-access=limited}}</ref>

==Career== After teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana University Bloomington, and Columbia University, Woloch became a full professor at Columbia in 1975. He was named Moore Collegiate Professor of History in 1998.<ref name="Writers Directory 2005">{{cite web |title=Woloch, Isser |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/woloch-isser |access-date=5 December 2025 |work=Writers Directory 2005 |publisher=Gale |date=December 2, 2025 |language=en |via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> Woloch was the winner of the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association in 1994.

==Selected publications==

===As sole author=== * {{cite book |last=Woloch |first=Isser |date=1970 |title=Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, N.J. |isbn=978-0-691-06183-2}} * {{cite book |last=Woloch |first=Isser |author-mask=7 |title=The French Veteran from the Revolution to the Restoration |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=1979 |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=978-0-8078-1356-0 |URL=https://archive.org/details/frenchveteranfro0000isse/mode/1up?view=theater |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}} * {{cite book |last=Woloch |first=Isser |author-mask=7 |year=1982 |title=Eighteenth-century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715–1789 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-01506-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/eighteenthcentur0000wolo/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive}} * {{cite book |last=Woloch |first=Isser |author-mask=7 |year=1994 |title=The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-03591-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/newregimetransfo0000wolo/page/n8/mode/1up?view=theater |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}} * {{cite book |last=Woloch |first=Isser |author-mask=7 |year=2001 |title=Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-32341-2}}<ref>{{cite news |type=book review |last=Bernstein |first=Richard |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E0D91638F93BA15751C0A9679C8B63 |department=Books of the Times |title=How Staunch Republicans Became a Dictator's Pals |work=The New York Times |date=February 28, 2001 |access-date=February 1, 2011 |page=E8 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{proquest|431664823}} |url-access=limited}}</ref> * {{cite book |last=Woloch |first=Isser |author-mask=7 |year=2019 |title=The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States After World War II |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0-300-24268-3}}

===As editor=== * {{cite book |editor-last=Woloch |editor-first=Isser |year=1996 |title=Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford, Calif. |isbn=978-0-8047-2748-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/revolutionmeanin00wolo_0/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive}}

== References == {{reflist |25em}}

==External links== * [https://history.columbia.edu/person/woloch-isser/ Columbia University faculty profile] * {{LCAuth|n81079900|Isser Woloch|10|}}

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