Warren Roberts

Distinguished Teaching Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of Calfornia, Berkeley
B.A., University of California, Berkeley

060M Social Sciences
Department of History
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York 12222

Phone: (518) 442-5369
Fax: (518) 442-5301

wer52@cas.albany.edu

Teaching:
Undergraduate Courses:
His 131: Western Civilization
His 263 A-B: Art, Music and History: A Multi-Media Approach
His 294: Youth and Modern Culture
His 340: French Revolution and Napoleon
His 346: England in the Eighteenth Century
His 361: European Cultural and Intellectual History, 1500-1800
His 364: Culture and the French Revolution
His 390: Topics in American History
His 481: History Honors Colloquium

Graduate Courses:
His 611: Readings in European Cultural and Intellectual History
His 620: Seminar in European History
His 643: Research Seminar in Culture and Society

Select Publications:
Books:
Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists: The Public, the Populace, and Images of the French Revolution (State University of New York Press, 1999).

Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics and the French Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 1989). Reprinted, paperback, 1992.

Jane Austen and the French Revolution (London, 1979). Reprinted, Athlone (London, 1995).

Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth Century French Literature and Painting (Toronto, 1974).

Articles:
"Teaching as Scholarship, Scholarship as Teaching: A Case Study," AHA Perspectives, April 1997.

"J.-L. David's Bara and the French Revolution," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe Proceedings: 1989.

"Commentary on Heroes and Goddesses of the French Revolution," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe Proceedings: 1988.

"The Architecture of Historicism," in The Churches and Synagogues of Albany (1987).

"Tiffany Windows in Albany," in Experiencing Albany (1986).

Awards/Honors:
Collins Award, 1997.

SUNY Summer Research Fellowships, 1987.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, 1984.

Fellow, Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1979-1980.

National Humanities Foundation Fellowship, 1968.

Current Research and Teaching Interests:
Warren Roberts is a cultural historian with particular interest in relationships between literature, the arts, and history. Most of his work, as a teacher and scholar, has been in European history, but he has crossed the North Atlantic in recent years and offered courses on American art and architecture, which he sees through a European prism. He also has an interest in Albany, the city and its architecture, the subject of one of his undergraduate courses. His main field of specialization is the eighteenth-century, with particular emphasis on the French Revolution. He has published four books; each of them cross boundaries between literature, art, and the politics of the French Revolution.

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