MARTIN S. STAUM
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Address: 5935
Silver Ridge Drive N.W.
Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
T3B
3S2
Telephone: (403) 288-9111
Date
& Place of Birth: July
9, 1943, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Canadian
Citizenship December 20, 1994
Marital
Status: Married
December 8, 1974 to Sarah M. Sheinin
Undergraduate
Degree: B.A. with Honors, Princeton University,
June, 1964
Graduate Degree: Ph.D.
in History, Cornell University, awarded January 20, 1971
Dissertation: "Pierre-Jean-Georges
Cabanis (1757-1808) and the Science of Man"
GRADUATE
EDUCATION:
Major
Field: Early
Modern European History (History of the Enlightenment) Professor Henry Guerlac
Minor
Field: Modern
European History Professor Edward
Fox
Minor
Field: U.S.
History
Professors
David Davis, Michael Kammen, Fred Somkin
GRADUATE
FELLOWSHIPS HELD:
Cornell
Graduate Fellowship, 1964-1965
Lehman
(New York State Board of Regents)
Fellowship
in the Social Sciences, 1966-1968
U.S.
Public Health Service Predoctoral Fellowship (History of Medicine), 1968-1969
GRADUATE
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP: Introduction to Western Civilization
(Professor
L. Pearce Williams), 1965-1966
EMPLOYMENT: Visiting
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, 1969-1970
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, 1970-1971
Assistant
Professor, University of Calgary, 1971-1977
Associate
Professor, University of Calgary, 1977-1983
Professor,
University of Calgary, 1983-2008
Professor
Emeritus, 2008-
PUBLICATIONS
AND SCHOLARSHIP:
Books (refereed):
Staum, Martin S., Cabanis: Enlightenment
and Medical Philosophy in the
French Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 430 pp.
Staum, Martin S., & Donald E.
Larsen (eds.), Doctors, Patients, and Society: Power and Authority in Medical
Care. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University
Press, 1981 (appeared February, 1982), 285 pp.
Staum, Martin S., Minerva's Message: Stabilizing the French
Revolution. Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1996, 360pp. (finalist for the Aid to Scholarly Publications
Programme social sciences award, 1998).
Staum, Martin S. Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire,
1815-1848. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003, 264pp.
Staum, Martin S. Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859-1914 and Beyond.
Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2011, 251pp.
Books (non-refereed):
Knafla, L.A., M.S. Staum, &
T.H.E. Travers (eds.), Science, Technology, and Culture in Historical
Perspective. Calgary: Department of
History, University of Calgary, Studies in History No. 1, 1976.
Chapters in Books (refereed):
Staum, Martin S.,
"Cabanis and the Revolution:
The Therapy of Society" in Harry Woolf, ed., The Analytic Spirit: Essays
in the History of Science
in Honor of Henry Guerlac. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1981, pp. 146-174.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Introduction" in Martin S. Staum & Donald E. Larsen, eds., Doctors, Patients and Society: Power
and Authority in Medical Care. Waterloo: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 1981, pp. 1-11.
Staum, Martin S.
"L'Idologie dans les Ecoles centrales." In L'Institution de la raison: La Rvolution culturelle des Idologues. ed. Franois Azouvi. Paris: Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. J. Vrin, 1992. pp. 163-196.
Chapters in Books (non-refereed):
Staum, Martin S.,
"Introduction" in L.A. Knafla, M.S. Staum, & T.H.E. Travers,
eds., Science, Technology, and Culture in Historical Perspective. Calgary: Department of History, University of
Calgary, Studies in History No. 1, 1976, pp. 1-6.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Science and Government in the French Revolution" in L.A. Knafla,
M.S. Staum, & T.H.E. Travers (eds.), Science,
Technology, and Culture in Historical Perspective. Calgary:
Department of History, University of Calgary, Studies in History No. 1, 1976,
pp. 105-126.
Articles (refereed):
Staum, Martin S.,
"Newton and Voltaire: Constructive Sceptics." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 62 (1968): 29-56.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Cabanis and the Science of Man." Journal
of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences 10, 2 (April, 1974): 135-143.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Andreas Sigismund Marggraf." Dictionary
of Scientific Biography 9
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974): 104-107.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Medical Components of Cabanis's Science of Man." Studies
in History of Biology, ed. William Coleman and Camille
Limoges 2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978): 1-31.
Staum, Martin S., "The Class of
Moral and Political Sciences, 1795-1803." French
Historical Studies 11, 3 (1980): 371-397.
Staum, Martin S.,
"The Class of Moral and Political Sciences, 1795-1803." (Summary). Transactions of the Fifth International
Congress on the Enlightenment, Studies
on Voltaire and the
Eighteenth Century 192 (1981):1183-1189.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Images of Paternal Power: Intellectuals and Social Change in the French
National Institute." Canadian Journal of History,
17(1982):425-445.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Les concours de l'Institut en sciences morales et politiques." Histoire
pistmologie langage 4, 1 (1982):111-116. Special issue "Les idologues et
les sciences du langage."
Staum, Martin S.,
"Human, not Secular Sciences:
Ideology in the Central Schools," Historical Reflections 12, 1 (1985): 49-76. Translated as book chapter
listed above, 1992.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Science." Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. eds. Samuel
F. Scott and Barry Rothaus. 2 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985): 876-881.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges" (Napoleonic period), "Constant de
Rebecque, Benjamin," "Institut national des sciences et des
arts," "Stal-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne de"
Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. ed. Owen
Connelly (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 91, 127-128, 251-252, 454.
Staum, Martin S.
"The Enlightenment Transformed: The Institute Prize Contests." Eighteenth-Century Studies 19 (1985):153-179.
Staum, Martin S.,
"The Institute Historians: Enlightenment and Conservatism." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western
Society for French History, 13 (1986): 122-130.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Cabanis," "Destutt de Tracy," "Idologues,"
"Volney," in Edgar Leon Newman (ed.), Historical Dictionary of France
from the 1815 Restoration to the
Second Empire, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987 1: 143-144, 329-330,
507-508, and 2: 1106-1107.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Individual Rights and Social Control: Political Science in the French
Institute," Journal of the
History of Ideas, 48 (July-Sept.
1987): 411-430.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Human Geography in the French Institute: New Discipline or Missed
Opportunity?" Journal of the
History of the Behavioral Sciences, 23 (October 1987), 332-340.
Staum, Martin S.,
"The Institute Economists: From Physiocracy to Entrepreneurial Capitalism,"
History of Political Economy, Durham, N.C., 19,4
(1987):525-550.
Staum, Martin S.
"Volney et l'ide d'une science morale l'Institut," L'Hritage des Lumires: Volney et les Idologues, Actes du Colloque d'Angers mai 1987 (ed.) Jean
Roussel. (Angers: Presses de
l'Universit, 1988), pp. 131-140.
Staum, Martin S.
"The Public Relations of the Second Class of the National Institute,
1795-1803." Proceedings of the
Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 16 (1989): 212-222.
Staum, Martin S.
"L'Image de la Rvolution dans la Classe des sciences morales et
politiques," L'Image de la
rvolution franaise, Congrs mondial pour le Bicentenaire de la Rvolution, Sorbonne, Paris, 6-12 juillet 1989 (ed.) Michel Vovelle 1 (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989):
530-534.
Staum, Martin S. "The Legacy of
Condillac in the Revolutionary Era" Proceedings
of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History 18
(1991):207-217.
Staum, Martin S.
"'Analysis of Sensations and Ideas' in the French National Institute (1795
- 1803)" Canadian Journal of History,
26 (1991): 393-413.
Staum, Martin S.
"Joseph-Marie Degrando. Des signes (1800)
et Histoire compare des systmes de
philosophie (1802)." and
"P.-F. Lancelin. Introduction
l'analyse des sciences."
In Encyclopdie philosophique
universelle III. Les Oeuvres philosophiques, Dictionnaire, 1. ed. Jean-Franois Matti. Paris: Presses
universitaires de France,1992. pp.1708-1709, 1910.
Staum, Martin S.,
"Physiognomy and Phrenology at the Paris Athne", Journal of the History of Ideas, 56
(1995):443-462.
Staum, Martin S. French Lecturers
in Political Economy, 1815-1848: Varieties of Liberalism, History of Political Economy 30, 1(1998): 95-120.
Staum, Martin S. The Paris Geographical Society
Constructs the Other, 1821-1850, Journal
of Historical Geography, 26, 2(2000): 222-238.
Staum, Martin S. Paris Ethnologists and the
Perfectibility of Races, Canadian
Journal of History 35, 3 (2000): 453-72.
Staum, Martin S. Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges.
Destutt de Tracy, Antoine-Louis-Claude. Idologues. Institut de France. In Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed.
Alan Kors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
1:
187-188, 348-349 and 2: 247-249 and 265-267.
Staum, Martin S. Nature and Nurture in French
Ethnography and Anthropology, 1859-1914. Journal
of the History of Ideas 65, 3 (2004): 475-495.
Staum, Martin S., Ribot, Binet, and the Emergence
from the Anthropological Shadow. Journal
of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43,1 (2007) 1-18.
Staum, Martin S. Race and Gender in
Non-Durkheimian French Sociology, 1893-1914, Canadian Journal of History 42,2 (2007): 183-208.
Articles
(invited):
Staum, Martin S. Le Temprament - Indice de la diversit
humaine, Revue des Lettres, Sciences et
Arts de la Corrze 102(1999): 129-147.
Book Reviews:
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "C.G. Kratzenstein and
his Studies on Electricity during the Eighteenth Century" by E.
Snorrason. The Eighteenth Century Bibliography for 1974:
Philological Quarterly 54, 4 (January, 1975): 818.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Medical Revolution in France 1789-1796" by David Vess. Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. n.s. (1975) publ. 1978:
l53.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Il pensiero degli Idologues" by Sergio Moravia. Journal
of the History of Philosophy 14, 3 (1976): 378-380.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Die brumairianische
Elite" by Werner Giesselmann. Eighteenth-Century Studies 12, 2 (1979):
245-249.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Lexique historique de
la France d'Ancien Rgime" by Guy Cabourdin and Georges Viard. The
Eighteenth Century: A Current
Bibliography, n.s. 5 for 1979 (1983): 156.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "The Normal and the
Pathological" by Georges Canguilhem.
Journal of the History
of Medicine 36 (1981): 88-89.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Le second rgne de la
nature" by Francois Delaporte.
The Eighteenth Century: A Current
Bibliography, n.s. 6 for 1980 (1984):
181-182.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Science and Polity in
the Old Regime" by Charles C. Gillispie. Canadian
Journal of History 16, 3 (198l): 487-489.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "On the Relations
Between the Physical and Moral Aspects of Man." By Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis. (ed.). George Mora. Bulletin
of the History of Medicine,
vol. 57, no. 1 (1983): 128-130.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "La Physiologie des
lumires: Empirisme, modles et thories." By Francois Duchesneau. Isis, vol. 74, no. 2 (1983): 287-288.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation" by
Charles C. Gillispie. The Journal of Modern History 56 (1984): 729-731.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "New Images of the Natural in France." By D.G. Charlton. The
Eighteenth Century: A Current
Bibliography. New York: AMS Press, 1989, pp. 81-82.
Staum, Martin S. Review:
"Le Canada et la Rvolution Franaise." Ed. Pierre Boulle and Richard Lebrun. Histoire sociale - Social History 23 (1990): 371-373.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology." By
Wolf Lepenies. Philosophy of Science 58 (1991): 135-136.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "The Languages of Psyche." ed. G.S. Rousseau. Social History of Medicine, 5 (1992):
144-146.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "The Press in the French Revolution." Edited by Harvey
Chisick, with Ilana Zinguer and Ouzi Elyada.
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire 27 (1992): 395-397.
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Space and
Revolution." By James Leith. Canadian
Journal of History 29 (1994).
Staum, Martin S.
Review: "Quantification and
the Quest for Medical Certainty."
By J. Rosser
Matthews. Canadian Journal of History 31 (1996):311-312.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: "Beyond the
Great Story." By Robert
Berkhofer. Canadian Review of American Studies, 25, 3 (1996):149-151.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: "Monsieur
D'Eon is a Woman." By Gary
Kates. Intelligence and National
Security, 11, 4 (1996): 798-99.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: A Classical
Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Thought of Mably. By Johnson Kent Wright. Journal
of Modern History, 71(1999): 702-703.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North
American Indians. By Harry Liebersohn. American
Historical Review 105,4(2000): 1374-75.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: Constructing Paris Medicine. Edited by Caroline Hannaway
and Ann La Berge. Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 31,4 (2001): 641-42.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt. By Anne Marie Claire Godlewska. Journal of Modern History 73, 4 (2001):
956-957.
Staum, Martin S. Review: Linnaeus:
Nature and Nation. By Lisbet Koerner. American
Historical Review 106,1(2001): 528-29.
Staum, Martin S. Review: The Wild
Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment.
H-France Review (on-line discussion
group of the Society for French Historical Studies)
Vol.
2 (November 2002), No. 123.
http://h-france.net/vol2reviews/staum.html.
Staum, Martin S. Review: Exile to
Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900.
By Alice Bullard. Canadian Journal of
History 37,3 (2002): 602-604.
Staum,
Martin S. Review: The Human Tradition in Modern France. Eds. K. Steve Vincent
and Alison Klairmont-Lingo. Social
History - Histoire sociale 34 (2001): 496-97 (appeared, 2003).
Staum,
Martin S. Review: French
Anti-Slavery: The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848.
By Lawrence C. Jennings. Canadian Journal
of History 38 (2003): 115-16.
Staum, Martin S. Review: The End of the Soul:
Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936. By
Jennifer Michael Hecht. H-France Review Vol. 3
(October 2003), No. 107. http://h-france.net/vol3reviews/staum2.html
Staum, Martin S. Review: La Mesure des sens: Les anthropologues et le corps
humain au XIXe sicle. By Nlia Dias. Isis
97 (2006): 167-169.
Staum, Martin S. Review: Pierre-Simon Laplace,
1749-1827: A Determined Scientist. By Roger Hahn. American Historical Review, 111, 4 (2006): 1254.
Staum, Martin S. Review: The Measure of Merit:
Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics,
1750-1940. By John Carson. Bulletin of
the History of Medicine, 82,2 (2008): 456.
Staum, Martin S. Review: Lavnement de la
mdecine clinique moderne en Europe, 1750-1815: Politiques, institutions, et savoirs.
By Othmar Keel. Isis, 99, 3 (2008):
622-23.
Staum, Martin S. Review: Sara Baartman and the
Hottentot Venus. By Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully. Journal of Modern History 82, 2 (2010): 439-41.
Unpublished Assessments:
Review of Richard
Lebrun, ed., Joseph de Maistre:
Considerations on France for the
Humanities Research Council (August, 1972).
Reader's Report on Science and Immortality: Eloges
of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699-1791), 1979, University of
California Press.
Reader's Report on La Mettrie and the Medicalization of
Enlightenment, 1991, Cornell University Press.
Reader's Report on Condorcet: Writings on Political Theory 1993, Yale University Press.
Readers Report on
prospectus, The Emergence of Tropical
Medicine in France, University of Chicago Press.
Readers Report on
manuscript on wild children for McGill-Queens University Press, 2004.
Assessment for Aid
to Scholarly Publications Programme of Philip Knee, Penser l'appartenance 1994.
Refereed two articles for
the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 198l/1982, one for Isis,
1984, six for Canadian Journal of History, 1990, 1992,
1993, 1998, 2002, one for History of
Political Economy, 1991, one for Journal
of the History of Ideas, 1996, one for Journal
of Modern History, 1998, one for Historical
Reflections/Rflexions historiques, 1998, three for French Historical Studies, 2007-10, and one for Science in Context, 2007.
Refereed twelve
grant applications for Canada Council and SSHRC, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1990,
1991, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2008.
Promotions files for
University of Oklahoma, 2001, Queens University, 2001, and University of
California, Berkeley, 2003.
Grant Application
for Wellcome Trust in History of Medicine, 2008.
Canada Research
Chair file for Dalhousie University, 2008.
Unpublished Conference Papers or Lectures:
"Reflections on
Foucault." Interuniversity
Centre for European Studies Workshop, Montreal, 1978.
"The Montpellier School of
Medicine." Canadian Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, 1979.
"Cabanis, l'unit
psychophysiologique de l'homme." Centre national de recherches
scientifiques, Equipe Maine de Biran, Universite de Paris-IV, Sorbonne, 1980.
"Pacific Exploration and Human
Geography in the French National Institute," Pacific Coast Branch -
American Historical Association, Stanford, 1985.
"The Enlightenment and the
French Revolution." Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Windsor, 1988.
Commentary on papers concerning
interpretation of the Revolution, education and the Napoleonic federations of
1815 by George Comninel, Michel Grenon, and Robert Alexander, Annual meeting of
the Canadian Historical Association, Quebec, 1989.
"Commemorating the French
Revolution." Colloquium of the
Department of Political Science, University of Calgary, May, 1989.
"French Freemasonry from
Enlightenment to Revolution." Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, University
of Calgary, October, 1989.
"The Social Sciences in the
Revolutionary Era." Canadian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Calgary, October, 1991.
"Les vnements de mai 1968
aprs 25 ans." French Centre, Univ. of Calgary, January, 1994.
"Athne Lecturers in Political
Economy." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and
Philosophy of Science. June, 1994.
"La perfectibilit de lespce
chez les Idologues et chez les phrnologistes,"Conference on Les
Idologues et leur posterit, Cerisy-la-Salle, France, September , 1998.
Labeling
People: French Scholars on Society, Race,and Empire. Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Toronto, April,
2002.
Nature and Nurture in French Ethnography and Anthropology, 1859-1914.
Annual
Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, April 3, 2003.
Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences,
1821-1914,
Annual
Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society,
Washington,
D.C. May 5, 2004 (similar text in invited lecture
at
University of Alberta March, 2004)
Nature and
Nurture in French Psychology and Sociology, 1873-1914
Annual
Meeting of the History of Science Society,
Vancouver,
November, 2006.
Nature and
Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859-1914, Calgary History and Philosophy
of Science Group, November, 2008.
Nature
and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859-1914, Cheiron –
International History of the Neurosciences Group conference, June, 2011.
External
Research Grants:
Canada Council, 1974-1975, S74-0147,
P.J.G. Cabanis in Politics.
Canada Council, 1976-1977,
"Ideology" and Opportunism in a French Academy (1795-1803).
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, 1980-198l, 410-80-0483, The Social Science Elite and Their
Public, 1795-1803. $5826
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, 1982-1985, 410-82-0049 R1, A Social Science Academy in the
Era of the French Revolution (book-length project). $9004
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council Leave Fellowship, 1984 (same project).
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, 1996-2000, 410-96-0982, Individual and Racial Classification
in the Emerging Social Sciences in France, 1800-1848, $47,000.
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council, 2001-2004, Heredity and Milieu in French Social Sciences,
1859-1914, $57,000.
University
Awards:
University of Calgary Killam
Fellowship, 1986.
University of Calgary Grants
Committee (Research Grants), 1992-1993. $2420
Faculty of Social Sciences
Distinguished Research Award (Career) for 1998
Faculty of Social Sciences Research
Fellowship, 2001.
Teaching
Citations:
Nomination for Teaching Excellence Award,
Students' Union, 1993
GRADUATE
TEACHING:
Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee and *Dissertation Examination
*Claire Grogan, English 1990-93
Pamela Sanders, History 1991-92
*Diana Mansell, History 1991-96
Sheila Ross, History 1991-93
*Laurie Meijer Drees, History 1992-1997
Scott Murray, History 1994
*Lisa Warden,
Political Science, 1996-98
*Lynn Lemisko, Graduate Division of Educational
Research, 1998
Helena Nunes Duarte 2004-5
Ph.D.
Candidacy Examination Committees:
Claire
Grogan (English) 1991
Diane Mansell 1992,
Sheila Ross 1993,
Scott Murray 1993
Margaret
Cook 2001
Lori
Williams (Political Science) 1993
Laurie Meijer-Drees (1994)
Lisa
Warden (French and Political Science) (1996)
Laurel
Roberts (Graduate Division of Educational Research) (1998)
Margaret
Berci (Graduate Division of Educational Research) (1998)
Helena
Nunes Duarte, 2005
Stphane
Guevremont, 2006
Ethan
Johnson (Center for Military and Strategic Studies), 2007
Moni
Riez (Center for Military and Strategic Studies), 2007
Supervision of M.A. Thesis:
Eric P. De Bruyn, "The Origins
of the French Non-Intervention Policy in the Spanish Civil War." 1978.
Suzette Lewin, "The Evolution of Attitudes
Toward Jewish Emancipation in the French Revolution." 1982.
Tom Toews, "David Hartley: His Role in the Development of British
Psychology." 1983.
Len Scott, "Herder: Culture and
the Enlightenment." 1991.
Chris Mummery, The Struggle for
Survival: The Origins of Racism in New Caledonia, 1843-1902. 2000.
Katie Emond, LImagination au
pouvoir: May 1968 and the Identity of a Generation. 2002
Membership
M.A. Thesis Examination Committees:
Colleen Knudtson - History
1972
Ian Clarke - History
1973
Peter Hall - History
1976
Barbara Walker - French 1976
Harley Trudeau - History
1977
Wallace Hooper - History
1979
James Christie - History
1982
Darlene Zdunich - History
1984
Jana Andersen - History
1988
Jane Jenkins - History
1990
Peter Jackson - History
1991
Helmut Kaiser - French
1994
Susan McMahon - History
1994
Anne Salade dit Lavigne - French
1994
Christian Ruel - History
1997
Margaret Cook - History
1997
Lisa Warden Political
Science 1998
C. M. Thbault-Smith French
1999
Robert Roach Political
Science 1999
Jeff Wigelsworth History
2000
Brooke Montgomery History
2000
Joseph Warren Psychology
2001
Danielle Kinsey History
2002
Judith Mosbach-Mossaad Psychology
2003
Triet Nguyen History
2005
Bill King History
2007
Troy Wason History
2007
Membership
M.A. Course-Based Oral Examination Committee:
Meir
Porat, History 1984
Graduate
Courses:
History 690 - Historiography and Theories of
History
History 608.05 - Seminar on the Era of the French
Revolution and Napoleon
History 633.02 - Seminar on the Enlightenment and
French Revolution
History 691, 692, 708 - Conference and Reading
Courses
Eric de Bruyn 1975-1976, The Third French Republic
Suzette Lewin 1978-1979, The Jews in France, 1700-1815
Stuart Hooper 1979-1980, Problems in Twentieth
Century Socialism and Communism
Tom Toews, 1981, Readings in the History of the
Enlightenment
Meir Porat, 1983, Readings in
Nineteenth-Century Nationalism
Len Scott, 1985, Readings on Enlightenment Views
of History.
Bill Hilton, 1989, Readings in the History of
Science and Enlightenment.
Pamela Sanders, (Ph.D.) and Steven Baljkas (M.A.)
1991 - 1992, Readings in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century History of Medicine
Diana Mansell, (Ph.D.) and Sheila Ross, (Ph.D.)
1991 - 1992, Directed Readings in Modern
European
History since 1750
Laurie Meijer Drees (Ph.D.) 1993, Directed
Readings in Modern European History since 1750
Rob MacPherson, Readings on Nationalism in the
French Revolution, 1996 and 2000.
Chris Mummery, Directed Readings on Racial Theory
and French Colonialism, 1998.
Marg Cook (Ph. D) Readings in Modern European
History, 2000.
Kathryn Emond, Readings in French Labour History
and Political History, 2000.
Helena Nunes (Duarte) (Ph. D) Readings in Eighteenth-Century
European History, 2002, Exam Preparation, 2004.
Sean Marchetto, Unclassified, Post-M.A. Directed
Readings in French History, 2004.
UNDERGRADUATE
TEACHING:
University
of British Columbia:
History of Modern
France, 1715 to the Fifth Republic
Third-Year Honours
Seminar in the Philosophy of History and Historical Methods
Fourth-Year Honours
Seminar in the Philosophy of History and Historical Methods
Simon Fraser University:
Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution in
Europe, 1715-1815 (one semester)
The French Monarchy, 1660-1789 (one semester)
Honours Seminar in the Philosophy of History and
Historical Methods (undergraduate and graduate -one each semester)
Introduction
to History (one semester - one two-hour tutorial and participation in faculty
lectures)
University
of Calgary:
Historical Studies 201 - History of Europe since
1500
History 203 - An Introduction to History: Europe since 1500
Historical Studies 329 - Eighteenth-Century
Europe, 1715-1815: Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
History 393 - A History of Magic,
Science and Religion in Europe (team-taught with T.H.E. Travers or Margaret
Osler)
Historical Studies 421.02 - France, 1715-1968:
Decadence, Revolution, and the Search for Stability
History 446 - The Scientific Revolution and the
Age of Enlightenment
History 451 - France, 1648-l799: Splendour, Decadence, and Revolution
History 452 - France, 1648-1968
History 453 - France, 1799-1968: The Search for Stability
History 469/Historical Studies 427 - Nineteenth
Century European Intellectual History/Ideas that changed Modern Europe
History 498 - Historical Methods and the
Philosophy of
History (with Herman Ganzevoort)
History 555/Historical Studies 511.01 - The Age of
Enlightenment
History 557/Historical Studies 511.02 - The French
Revolution and the Era of Napoleon
History/Historical Studies 596 - Honours Directed
Reading
Eight students - 1974-1975, 1975-1976, 1982-1983,
1987-1988, 1989-1990, 1996-1997, 2000
History 598 - Honours Thesis Supervision Bill
Cormack, 1982-1983 American Influences on the French
Revolution: The Creation and Participation of an Americanist Elite
Heather
Gordon, 1988-1989 Revolution and Romanticism in France
Jill
Maciak, 1994-1996 Et mention de plusieurs qui ne savent pas signer: Land Division in the French Revolution
and the Dawn of Peasant Political Consciousness
Robert
Black, 2006-8 Culture Clash: Anglo-Spanish Collaboration and Confrontation in the
Context of the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
Historical
Studies 591 – Directed Reading- David Henderson 2003
Nicholas Fraser 2006
SERVICE
External:
Adjudication
Committee in History, Social Sciences and
Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC), 1985-1988
Board
of Directors, Canadian Federation of the
Humanities,
1986-1989
Program
Committee, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science,
2003-2005
University:
General
Faculties Council, 1986-1989, 1995-1998
General
Promotions Committee 1989-1991
Convener,
Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, 1994-1997; Chair, Interdisciplinary
Conference on What is Enlightenment? 1996
Chairman,
Planning and Program Committee, Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Interdisciplinary Conference, "Power and Authority in Medical Care,"
1979-1980
Council
of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, 1981-1984
Executive
Council, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1993-96
Ad
Hoc Committee on Management Ph.D., 1983-1988
Graduate
Studies Student Appeals Panel, 1985-1987
Nickle
Arts Museum Numismatics Advisory Committee, 1987-1988
Humanities
Institute Review Committee 1988
Philosophy
Appointments Committee, External Member 1991
French,
Italian, and Spanish Headship Review, External Member 1993
French,
Italian, and Spanish Appointments Committee, 2000
Executive
Committee, Eighteenth-Century Studies Group 1980-present
Faculty
of Arts and Sciences:
Representative
to the Faculty of Education Council, 1972-1973
Planning
Committee, Development Proposal, Calgary Institute for the Humanities,
1974-1976
Staff
Travel Committee, 1975-1976
Faculty of Social Sciences:
Decanal Review Committee, 1998
Representative
to the Faculty of Humanities Council, 1981-1984, 1996-1997, 2002-5
Academic
Planning Committee, 1985-1987
Executive
Council, 1989-1991
Staff
Affairs Committee, 1991-1992, 1994-1998, 2007-8
Ethics
Committee, 2006-8
Linguistics
Appointments Committee, External Member 1993
Psychology
Headship Search, External Member, 1994 and
Archaeology
Headship Search, External Member, 1997
Department of History
Acting
Head, July 1 - August 10, 1982
Chair,
Graduate Studies Committee 1981-1984
Acting
Chair, Graduate Studies Committee April-June, 2003
Graduate
Studies Committee 1974-1975, 1979-1980, 1986-1988, 1989-1991, 1993-1995,
1998-2000, 2002-5, 2007-8
Library
Co-ordinator 1977-1981
Appointments
Committee 1974-1976, 1977-1978, 1982-1983, 1991-1992, 1993-1995, 1999
Curriculum
Committee 1972-1974, 1975-1976, 1985-1986
Undergraduate
Studies Committee 1987-1988, 1995-1996, 1999-2000, 2006-7, Acting Chair, 2000
Policy
and Planning Committee 1973-1974, 1977-1979, 1981-1982, 1987-1991
Chair,
European History Telecourse Review, 1993
Colloquium
Committee, 1996-1997
Chair,
European History Section, 1995-1997, 2002-3
Community:
Classroom
presentations on the French Revolution at Cochrane Senior High School and
Western Canada Senior High School, 1979-1980
Board
of Education Holocaust symposium, Mount Royal College, May, 1986, May 1995
International
Baccalaureate History Lectures, 1998 -1999
International
Baccalaureate Panel Symposium, 1999 -2000
Apeiron
Society (Practice of Philosophy) Society Invited Lecture, "The Birth of
Modernity and the Challenge of Postmodernism" (on the French Revolution
and post-modernism), November, 1999
Social
Studies Teachers Workshop on Nationalism Curriculum, 2008