Robin Bates

Visiting Assistant Professor

Robin Bates is a historian of modern France and the francophone world whose work focuses on political culture in the decades following the Revolution of 1789. He defended his doctoral dissertation, Regimes of Education: Pedagogy and the Political Reconstruction of Postrevolutionary France, 1789-1848, at the University of Chicago in 2014. This dissertation examines how, at a moment of great instability and upheaval, the theory and practice of education was transposed onto many crucial relationships of power – whether between parents and children, masters and slaves, men and women, or political leaders and their people as a way to envision and enact a new order of things. Beginning in the autumn of 2014, Robin will be a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Department of History at FSU.


Publications:

  • “Madame Guizot and Monsieur Guizot: Domestic Pedagogy and the Post-Revolutionary Order in France, 1807-1830.” Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 1 (April 2011): 31-59.
  • “Of the Blood: Race, History and Memory in Formac’s Fiction Treasures Series.” Acadiensis XLI, no. 2 (summer/autumn 2012): 174-195.
  • Coauthored with Ian McKay. In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia. Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.
  • “Guizot, Pauline (née de Meulan).” In Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices, edited by Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque and Mireille Calle-Gruber. Paris: des femmes, 2013.


Teaching:

Fall 2014:

  • EUH 2000 - Ancient and Medieval Civilizations
  • EUH 4452 - The Age of the French Revolution, 1715-1795