Meghan Roberts

Assistant Professor of History

Spring 2012

  • Early Modern Europe, from Reformations to Revolutions (HIST 127)
  • Marriage and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World (HIST 278)
  • Honors Seminar in History (HIST 452)
Phone 725-3648
Title Assistant Professor
Department History
Work Location 310A Dudley Coe Building
E-Mail mroberts@bowdoin.edu
Meghan Roberts - Bowdoin College History

Education

Ph.D., History, Northwestern University (2011)

M.A., History, Northwestern University (2006)

B.A., History, College of William and Mary (2004)

Teaching Areas

Early modern Europe; the Atlantic world; France; intellectual and cultural history; history of women and gender; family history

Research Interests

I have research interests in the intellectual, cultural, and political history of early modern Europe, especially in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. My current project, presently titled Living Proof: Intellectual Families and Knowledge Making in Enlightenment France, examines the birth of a new intellectual ideal: the happily married male savant who collaborated fruitfully with his wife and children. It then considers how this domestic turn affected the practice, making, and representation of knowledge. I argue that, in the eighteenth century, the family became an experimental space, a laboratory in which thinkers could apply, adapt, and advertise their ideas on subjects such as inoculation and education.

Publications

"Philosophes Mariés and Epouses Philosophiques: Men of Letters and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century France,” French Historical Studies 35, no. 3 (Summer 2012), forthcoming.

Manuscript in progress: "Living Proof: Intellectual Families and Knowledge Making in Enlightenment France"

Selected Honors and Awards

Harold Perkin Dissertation Prize, History Department, Northwestern University (co-winner, 2011)
Millstone Fellowship, Western Society for French History, 2010
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2006-2010

Curriculum Vitae (PDF) PDF