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Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: Regimes of Education: Pedagogy and the Political Reconstruction of Postrevolutionary France, 1789-1848
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Jan Goldstein
William H. Sewell Jr. Paul Cheney |
About
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. I have previously completed an BA and MA in History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
My dissertation in progress is called "Regimes of Education: Pedagogy and the Political Reconstruction of Postrevolutionary France, 1789-1848." Following the French Revolution of 1789, education offered a privileged domain to imagine the reconstruction of the social order in the intimate as well as the public realm. Pedagogy offered a medium for proposing models of human relations that might apply to many different contexts – pertaining not only to schoolrooms, but also to families, social classes and governments. My dissertation rediscovers a postrevolutionary moment when the social versatility of these educational projects promised a national reconstruction that seemed foreclosed through conventional political channels.
In addition to my work in French history, I have maintained an active interest in the history of my native province of Nova Scotia. At Queen's, my M.A. thesis "Writing for a Golden Age: James Stuart Martell and the Public Archives of Nova Scotia" was named the Outstanding Thesis in the Humanities for the year 2004. More recently, I have cowritten a monograph on Nova Scotia's public history with Prof. Ian McKay of Queen's University, entitled "In the Province of History: the Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia" (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010).
