Caroline Winterer is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University, where she is also a Professor, by courtesy, of Classics. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. She specializes in American history leading up to 1900. For mapping Benjamin Franklin’s social network, she received an American Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian Institution. She is the author of six books, including American Enlightenments and The Culture of Classicism.