Contact Information
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Research Interests
modern comparative European intellectual and cultural history; history of medicine, especially psychiatry; modern France; nineteenth-century Europe; fin-de-siecle studies; historical theory; the history of masculinity; the history of violence
Education
Washington College, Maryland, B.A., 1979; Yale University, Ph.D., 1987
Courses Taught
Western Civilization: 1660 to the Present
The European Intellectual Tradition: Enlightenment to Existentialism
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
Fin-de-siecle France
France in the Long Nineteenth Century
France and the Wider World
Art, Film, and Literature in the Age of the Dictators
Madness and Society in the Modern Age
The French Avant Garde, 1848-1914
Science, Medicine, and Gender in Europe and America, 1870-1920
Varieties of Cultural History
Readings in the History of Masculinity
The History of Violence
Highlighted Publications
BOOKS
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness. Harvard University Press, 2008.
The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940. Stanford University Press, 2004.
Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture. Stanford University Press, 2000.
Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations. Princeton University Press, 1995.
Discovering the History of Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Recent Publications
The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (Berghahn Books, 2021).
On Violence in History (Berghahn Books, 2020).