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Emmet Kennedy
Professor of History
| 801 22nd St. NW #320 |
Phone: (202) 994-6230 |
| Washington, D.C. 20052 |
Email: ekennedy@gwu.edu |
Emmet Kennedy is the author of five books and is considered one of the leading American historians of France. He is currently working on the origins of deaf education in the French Revolution as well as the refugee problem in the Pyrenees during World War II. Professor Kennedy has presented papers in France (where he taught for four years), England, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Germany and Austria. He has received fellowships and grants from The American Council of Learned Societies, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, The American Philosophical Society, the French Embassy and the Earhart Foundation. (Complete CV)
Selected Publications
Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Theatre, Opera and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris: Analysis and Repertory. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1996. Co-authored with Marie Laurence Netter, James P. McGregor and Mark V. Olsen.
A Cultural History of the French Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989.
A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of "Ideology." Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1978.
The Shaping of Modern France: Writings on French History since 1715. New York and London: Macmillan, 1969. Co-edited with James Friguglietti.
Education
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1973.
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