After more than a decade at Indiana University, Professor Wahrman returned to Israel fulltime in 2012 but even at a distance he remains one of the Center's closest friends. The author of Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, 1780-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Making of the Modern Self (Yale University Press, 2004), and Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Obsession at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age (Oxford University Press, 2012), he also co-authored Self Organization: Invisible Hands and the Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2015) with Jonathan Sheehan (Professor of History, UC Berkeley) another of the Center's founding members.