Education:
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Expertise:
History of France, European intellectual history
Background:
Professor Kennedy received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from Brandeis in French history. Before coming to GW in 1973, he taught at Kent State University and at the University of Toulouse in France. He is a former fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He currently offers courses on the history of France, the French Revolution, and European intellectual history. He has published four books, among them, A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of "Ideology" (American Philosophical Society, 1978) and A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Yale, 1989) and co-authored Theatre, Opera and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris (Greenwood, 1996). He is currently writing a book entitled Secularism and its Critics in European Thought. Kennedy is considered one of the leading American historians of France.
Courses Taught:
Hist 123 European Intellectual History
Hist 124 European Intellectual History
Hist 141 History of France (to 1814)
Hist 142 History of France (from 1814)
Hist 148 The French Revolution
Hist 224 Readings/Research Sem: European Intellectual History
Last update: 1/30/2006
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