Daniel Jütte

Class of Spring 2025

Professor of History

New York University

This Rumbling Age: Locomotion and Shakeup in Europe, 1500-1800

While at the Academy, Jütte will be working on a new book on the history of locomotion in Europe. In the first half of the sixteenth century, a new type of four-wheeled vehicle made its first appearance in Europe: the coach. In his Academy project, This Rumbling Age, Jütte will trace the rise of vehicular traffic in Europe and how new modes of locomotion shook up society, culture, and economic life.

Daniel Jütte is Professor of History at New York University. He received his PhD in history from the University of Heidelberg. A historian of early modern and modern Europe, Jütte’s research interests lie in cultural history, urban history and material culture, history of knowledge and science, and Jewish history. He is the author of three monographs: Transparency: The Material History of an Idea (Yale, 2023), The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History (Yale, 2015), and The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800 (Yale, 2015; first German ed. 2011). Jütte has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the University of Cambridge, and he has received support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung), and Daimler Benz Foundation. Before joining NYU, Jütte was a lecturer in the Department of History at Harvard University as well as at the University of Heidelberg.