Professional Affiliation

Julius Silver Professor of European History, NYU

Expert Bio

Larry Wolff is the Julius Silver Professor of European History at NYU, the executive director of the NYU Remarque Institute, and the co-director of NYU Florence at Villa La Pietra.   His books include Inventing Eastern Europe:  The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994), Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001), The Idea of Galicia:  History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (Stanford 2010), and The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage (2016).  His new book is Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe  (2020).  He writes regularly about opera, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.