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Adrian O'Connor

Associate Professor

CONTACT information and cv

Office: Williams House, Second Floor
Phone: (727) 873-4523
Email: oconnora@usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania, 2009

TEACHING

I teach a wide range of courses in the political and cultural history of early modern and modern Europe, as well as thematic courses on the history of protest and politics, the history of assassination, and the history of political violence and terror.

RESEARCH

My research focuses on the political culture and cultural politics of eighteenth-century France, especially the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. My first book, In pursuit of politics: education and revolution in eighteenth-century France (Manchester University Press, 2017) examined how debates over education might shed light on efforts to establish a system of participatory politics and representative government during the early years of the French Revolution. I am currently at work on a second book project, tentatively titled Regeneration and Revolution in France, 1789-1791. I have also published numerous articles, which have appeared in French Historical Studies; French History; French Politics, Culture & Society; Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques; and the edited volumes Historicising the French Revolution (2008) and Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (2018), among other places.