The Great Return: Reintegrating Émigrés in Revolutionary France, 1794-1804
375 Pinehill Road Hillsborough, CA 94010
Professors Keith Baker, Carolyn Lougee and Dan Edelstein
Over the course of the French Revolution, roughly 150 000 émigrés were condemned to civil death, deprived of their property, and banished in perpetuity. Yet within a decade of the Terror, the vast majority had returned to their homeland—-a remarkable feat of reintegration that was neither straightforward nor inevitable. My dissertation examines the divisive and often unconstitutional means by which the fragile First Republic reintegrated this politically suspect group. I use legislative, police and judicial documents to explore both the political and practical challenges of France’s forgotten “great return” and its simultaneously reconciliatory and repressive legacy.
Teaching Fellow: Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (Queen's University, with Prof. Harold Mah) The Specter of Female Power in Revolutionary France, 1789-1871 (Stanford) Teaching Assistant: Modern Europe (for J.P. Daughton) Cultural History of the Early American Republic (Caroline Winterer) Great Trials in History (Kathryn Miller)
“Picpus: Accidental Cemetery,” to be published as part of the digital archive edited by Dr. J. Spencer, Picpus: Walled Garden of Memory. Forthcoming. (http://picpus.mmlc.northwestern.edu/mbin/WebObjects/Picpus.woa/wa/overV…) “Accidental Outlaws: Directorial Responses to the Émigré Shipwreck at Calais, 1795-1799,” a paper based on the second chapter in my dissertation, at the Society for French Historical Studies conference in Charleston (February 12, 2010). “The Great Return: Reintegrating Émigrés in Revolutionary France, 1794-1804,” an overview of my dissertation, at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France (November 23, 2010). “Jacques-Louis David’s ‘Greek Turn:’ Reconciling Art and Politics in The Intervention of the Sabine Women,” at the Stanford Humanities Program Graduate Symposium (May 8, 2009). “Banished from the King’s Gaze, Deported from the Nation: The Transformation of Penal Expulsion during the French Revolution,” at the Stanford Humanities Center French Culture Workshop (February 19, 2009). “Female Deficiency or Female Difference? Overlapping Sex Models in the Encyclopedia,” at the ARTFL Encyclopédie conference, University of Chicago (April 2008). “The Entangled Selves of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun,” at Tracing the Temporal: New Trajectories in Cultural and Intellectual History, Cornell University (April 20-22, 2006). “The Natural Mother of the French Enlightenment: Women’s Variations on a Rousseauian Theme,” at Core and Periphery Identities in Europe, 1500-1900, Modern History Faculty, Oxford (May 2003).
SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship CLIR-Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for Research in Original Sources Camargo Foundation Residency Gilbert Chinard Fellowship Marilyn Yalom Research Fellowship SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship