Judt is a University Professor and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. His research interests include French social history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and French and European intellectual and political history since World War II. A frequent contributor to many journals in Europe, the U.S., and the Middle East, Judt is also the author or editor of 12 books, including his latest work, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, published in 2006.