Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders

Claudia Verhoeven is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. She was born and raised in the Netherlands, but, after her family emigrated, educated in the US. She received a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Her first book is The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism and she is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism. She has been a fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, and was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin in 2023-24.