Dr. Suzanne L. Marchand
Professor - History
Bachelor's Degree(s): 1984: UC Berkeley, History, Highest Honors
Master's Degree: 1985: University of Chicago
PhD: 1992: University of Chicago
Phone: (225) 388-4454
E-mail: smarch1@lsu.edu
Office: 250F Himes
Area of Interest
European intellectual, Modern Europe, Germany
Awards & Honors
2012 Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Prize
2012 Appointed Distinguished Research Master, 海角社区
2012 Horning Lecturer, Oregon State University
2010 George L. Mosse Prize for the Best Book in Cultural and Intellectual History,
given by the American Historical Association
2010 Elected Vice-President of the German Studies Association (will be President in
2013-14)
2009 Selected by 海角社区 as one of 100 campus 鈥楻ainmakers鈥�
2009 (summer) Fellowship at Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study
2008 Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecturer, University of California, Davis
2005-6 Louisiana Board of Regents, Atlas Grant
2002 Awarded ACLS Burkhardt Fellowships for Associate Professors (taken in 2003-04)
1998 Elected Fellow (for 2000-01) Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
1997 Awarded Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship for research in Germany, 1997-98
1989 SSRC Dissertation Fellowship
1986 Schevill Fellowship for Intellectual History
1984 Colin Miller prize for best Senior Thesis, University of California, Berkeley
Selected Publications
Books and Edited Books:
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race and Scholarship (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Winner of the George Mosse Prize for Cultural and Intellectual History, 2009; selected as one of Choice鈥檚 Outstanding Academic Books, 2010.
Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany,1750-1970 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Germany at the Fin de Si猫cle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas, eds. Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld (Baton Rouge; 海角社区 Press, 2004).
Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence, eds. Suzanne Marchand and Elizabeth Lunbeck (Brussels: Brepols Publishers, 1997).
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002) [one of seven authors] (second edition, 2008; third edition 2010).
Forthcoming Publications:
Many Europes: Choice, Chance and Conflict in Western Civilization (McGraw Hill, 2013) (one of three authors).
鈥淥riental Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair: Orientalism in 1920s Central Europe,鈥� in Weimar Thought, ed. Peter Gordon (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2013).
鈥淗as the History of the Disciplines Had its Day?鈥� in Intellectual History Today, eds. Darrin McMahon and Samuel Moyn (forthcoming, 2012 or 2013).
鈥淧hilhellenism and Orientalism in Germany,鈥� in Lynchos (2013).
鈥淭he View from the Land: Austrian Art Historians and the Interpretation of Croatian Art,鈥� in Portable Archaeology, ed. Alina Payne.
Chapters in books, articles:
(with James Stoner) 鈥淎 Brief History of Accountability in Higher Education,鈥� in Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 92, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 16-18.
鈥淟鈥檃mit茅 Germano-Turque et ses Cons茅quences,鈥� in L鈥橭rientalisme, les Orientalistes et L鈥橢mpire Ottoman de la fin du XVIIIe a la fin du XXe Si猫cle, ed. S. Basch et al (Paris: Acad茅mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2011): 173-185.
鈥淟a cassure du continent humaniste: une histoire g茅ologique de la philologie allemande,鈥� in La Philologie allemande, figures de pens茅e, Revue Germanique Internationale, vol. 14 (2011): 225-237.
鈥淚gn谩c Goldziher et l鈥檕rientalisme en XIXeme si猫cle en Europe centrale,鈥� trans. Camille
Joseph, in C茅line Trautmann-Waller, ed., Ign谩c Goldziher (Paris, 2011): 89-113.
鈥淎rnold B枚cklin und die Krise des Neoklassizimus in Deutschland, in Eva Koczizsky,
ed., Ruinen in der Moderne: Archaeologie und die Kunste (Bonn, Reimer Verlag, 2010): 161-72.
鈥淟a dial茅ctica en la fiebre de los hallazgos arqueol贸gicos,鈥� (鈥淭he Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush,鈥�) in Istor: Revista di historia 10, nr. 43 (2010).
鈥淥rientalistik and Popular Orientalism in Fin de Si猫cle Germany,鈥� in After One Hundred Years: The 1910 Exhibition 鈥楳eisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst鈥� Reconsidered, eds. Andrea Lermer and Avinoam Shalem (Leiden, 2010): 17-36.
鈥淥n Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship鈥檚 Challenge to the Saidian Model,鈥� in Cosmopolitan Thought Zones, ed. Kris Manjapra and Sugata Bose (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 260-83.
鈥淲hat Did the Greeks owe the Orient? The Question We Can鈥檛 Stop Asking (Even Though we Can鈥檛 Answer it)鈥� in Archaeological Dialogues 17, no. 1 (2010): 117-40.
鈥淲hat the Greek Model Can, and Cannot Do for the Modern State: The German Perspective,鈥� in Roderick Beaton, ed. The Making of Modern Greece (Ashgate Press, 2009): 33-42.
鈥淰okietijos orientalizmas ir Vakaru nuosmukis鈥� in Rytai-Vakarai:Komparatyvistines studijos (East-West:Comparative studies) VI, ed. KFMI, Vilnius, 2007, p. 125-131. {Translation into Lithuanian of 鈥淕erman Orientalism and the Decline of the West鈥�)
鈥淧opularizing the Orient,鈥� in Intellectual History Review 17, no. 2 (July 2007): 175-202.
鈥淭he Long Nineteenth Century: A Forum,鈥� in German History, spring 2008.
鈥淔rom Antiquarian to Archaeologist? Adolf Furtwangler and the Problem of 鈥楳odern
Classical Archaeology,鈥� in Peter N. Miller, ed., Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences (Toronto, 2007): 248-85.
鈥淣azism, 鈥極rientalism,鈥� and Humanism,鈥� in Anson Rabinbach, ed., Nazism and the Humanities (Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2007), pp. 267-305.
鈥淧hilhellenismus und 鈥楩uror orientalis,鈥� [German] in Ludmila Hanisch, ed., Der Orient in akademischer Optik: Beitr盲ge zur Genese einer Wissenschaftsdiszipline, Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, vol. 20 (2006): 31-42.
鈥淧hilhell茅nisme et orientalisme en Allemagne,鈥� in Philhell茅nismes et transferts culturels dans l鈥橢urope du XIXe si猫cle (Revue Germanique Internationale, 1-2 (2005): 9-22.
鈥淧hilhellenism and the Furor Orientalis,鈥� Modern Intellectual History, 1, no. 3 (November 2004): 331-358.
鈥淎rnold B枚cklin and the Problem of German Modernism,鈥� in Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, eds., Germany at the Fin de Siecle: Culture, Politics and Ideas (Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 2004): 129-166.
鈥淏ecoming Greek: Johann Joachim Winckelmann is Murdered in Trieste,鈥� in David Wellbery, ed., A New History of German Literature (Cambridge, Mass, 2004): 376-81.
鈥淓mbarrassed by the Nineteenth Century,鈥� in Bernard Cook et al eds., Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2002 (Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 2004): 1-16.
鈥淔rom Liberalism to Neoromanticism: Albrecht Dieterich, Richard Reitzenstein and the Religious Turn in Fin de Siecle German Classical Studies,鈥� in Out of Arcadia (British Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, 79, 2003), eds. Martin Ruehl and Ingo Gildenhard (London, 2003): 129-60.
鈥淎rnold B枚cklin and the End of Neoclassicism,鈥� in The Impact of the Greek Classics on National and European Identities, eds. Pim den Boer and Eric Moormann, Studies of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (Amsterdam: Gieben Publishers, October 2002).
"The Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology," in Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire, eds. Glenn Penny and Matti Bunzl (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003): 283-316.
鈥淎dolf Furtw盲ngler in Olympia,鈥� in Olympia 1875-2000: 125 Jahre deutsche Ausgrabungen, ed. Helmut Kyreleis (Mainz, 2002): 147-162.
Comment on Philip L. Kohl and Perez Gollan, 鈥淩eligion, Politics, and Prehistory: The Lingering Legacy of Oswald Menghin,鈥� in Current Anthropology 43, number 4 (Aug-Oct. 2002): 578-579.
"The Rhetoric of Artifacts and the Decline of Classical Humanism: The Case of Josef Strzygowski," History and Theory, Beiheft 33 (Dec. 1994):106-30.
"Foucault, die moderne Individualit盲t und die Geschichte der humanistischen Bildung," in Geschichte zwischen Kultur und Gesellschaft: Beitr盲ge zur Theoriedebatte, eds. Thomas Mergel and Thomas Welskopp (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1997): 323-48.
"Leo Frobenius and the Revolt against the West," The Journal of Contemporary History 32, no. 2 (April 1997):153-170.
"Martin Bernal and His Critics" (co-authored with Anthony Grafton), Arion (Sept. 1997): 1-35.
"Nazi Culture: Banality or Barbarism?" The Journal of Modern History (March 1998):108-118.
"Attitude and Institutions" Current Anthropology (February 1998): 33-34.
"Orientalism as Kulturpolitik: German Archaeology and Cultural Imperialism in Asia Minor," in Volksgeist as Method and Ethic, The History of Anthropology, vol. 8, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr. (Madison, 1996): 298-336.
"Problems and Prospects for Intellectual History," New German Critique 65 (Spring/Summer 1995):87-96.
"Professionalizing the Senses: Art and Music History in Vienna, 1890-1920," Austrian History Yearbook 21 (1985):23-57.
"The Excavations at Olympia: An Episode in German-Greek Cultural Relations," in Greek Society in the Making, 1863-1913, ed. Philip Carabott (London, 1997):73-85.
"The Ancients and the Moderns in German Museums," in Museums and Memory ed. Susan Crane (Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 179-199.
"The End of Egyptomania," in Wilfried Seipel, ed., 脛gyptomanie: Europ盲ische 脛gyptenimagination von der Antike bis heute (Vienna, 2002): 125-134.
鈥淕erman Orientalism and the Decline of the West,鈥� in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 2001.
"The Turfan Expeditions: Classicism, Orientalism, Imperialism," in Zeitschrift der Koldewey Gesellschaft Koldewey Gesellschaft: Bericht 眉ber die 40. Tagung f眉r Ausgrabungs-wissenschaft und Bauforschung (May 1998): 31-40.
鈥淛acob Burckhardt and the Philhellenism of the Future,鈥� in Arion (Winter 2001): 158-170.