Joel Revill Visiting Assistant Professor of History Ph.D. 2006 Duke University

Contact
NAB Room 324
Phone: 413.597.2524
Joel.Revill@williams.edu
Office Hours:
TBA

Biography
Joel Revill received his Ph.D. in modern French history from Duke University in 2006 and has taught at Reed College and North Carolina State University. His teaching interests run from the Enlightenment to the present and cover a range of intellectual and cultural history topics including the revolutionary and republican traditions in France, the birth of the social sciences in late nineteenth century Europe, and the experiences and understandings of violence in modern Europe. He is currently working on the relationship of religious thought to the philosophy of science in the late nineteenth century as part of a larger project on the history of French conceptions of science and reason.

Courses Taught
HIST 228: Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 332: The Revolutionary Tradition in France, 1789-181
HIST 339: Philosophies of Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
HIST 432: Experiencing the Great War

Selected Publications
Articles:
The Bitterness of Disappointed Expectations: Élie Halévy and Revolutionary Socialism, Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 35 (2007).

"Emile Boutroux: Redefining Science and Faith in the Third Republic" Modern Intellectual History 6 (3) November 2009.

Research Interests
Modern Europe, French cultural and intellectual history


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