Curriculum Vitae

 

MARTIN S. STAUM

 

 

Home 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.

The Perils of Discourse Formation and Genealogy in Geography Unbound. Annual Meeting of Associaton of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March, 2002.

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