Suzanne L. Marchand
Boyd Professor
225D Himes Hall
578-4454
smarch1@lsu.edu
Full CV
Courses Taught
History of the City in Europe from 1500 (HIST 2126); Honors courses (HNRS 2406, 2408) on fundamental texts in the western tradition, 1500-present; Russian and French Literature in Historical Perspective (HNRS 2012); Western Civilization, 1500 to present (HIST 1003, or Honors version, HNRS 1004); European Intellectual History, 1700-1850 (HIST 4112); Graduate Readings Seminar in European History (HIST 7923).
Current Research Interests
Now writing a book about the history of Herodotus鈥� many readers, 1700 to the present, tentatively titled Herodotus and the Instabilities of Western Civilization. I continue to be interested in the history of the humanities, especially classical studies, art history, anthropology, history, and theology in modern Europe, as well as in the history of porcelain and related topics in the history of material culture and consumption in Central Europe.
Interested in Directing Theses On
I will happily direct theses in modern European intellectual and cultural history, as well as German and Austrian history.
Education
BA Berkeley (History) 1984; MA University of Chicago (History) 1986; Ph.D. University of Chicago (History) 1992
Awards and Honors
2023 Old Dominion Fellow, Humanities Council, Princeton University
2022 Awarded John Simon Guggenheim Award (to be taken in 2024-5)
2022 Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
2021 Awarded Ralph Gomory book prize (for Porcelain) from the Business History Conference
2021 Faber Lecturer, Princeton University
2019 Francesco e de Dombrowski Visiting Professor at I Tatti (Harvard University institute, located in Florence), January to June
2018 Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institut for the History of Science, Berlin
2018 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School of Classics, St. Andrews University, Scotland
2016-19, Councilor, Professional Division, AHA (elected)
2015 SEC Professor, 海角社区
2014 Appointed 海角社区 Systems Boyd Professor (highest rank in 海角社区 system)
2014 Lorenz Eitner Lecturer, Stanford University
2013 Summer Fellowship, Max Planck Institut f眉r Wissenschaftsgechichte, Berlin
2012-15 Committee on Committees, American Historical Association (elected)
2013-14 President, German Studies Association (elected)
2012 Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Prize
2012 Appointed Distinguished Research Master, 海角社区
2010 George L. Mosse Prize for the Best Book in Cultural and Intellectual History,
given by the American Historical Association
2009 Selected by 海角社区 as one of 100 campus 鈥楻ainmakers鈥�
2005 LA Board of Regents 鈥淎tlas鈥� Fellowship
2003 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
2000-1 Wissenschaftskolleg Fellowship, Berlin
1997 Humboldt Fellowship, Berlin
1994-5 James Conant Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard
Editorial Board member, Modern Intellectual History; Journal of the History of Ideas; German History; Journal of Art Historiography; Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Archiv f眉r Begriffsgeschichte
Board member, Global Architectural Teaching Collaborative Project; Center Austria (UNO); International Advisory Board, Institute for Art History, Prague.
Notable Articles
鈥淗erodotus and the Fate of Universal History in Nineteenth-Century Germany,鈥� The Journal of Modern History (accepted June 2021; forthcoming, 2023).
鈥淔inding Truths among the Lies: Fact-Checking Herodotus鈥� Egypt in the Long Eighteenth Century,鈥� in History of Humanities 6, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 269-93.
鈥淗erodotus as Anti-Classical Toolbox,鈥� in Herodotus in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Thomas Harrison and Joseph Skinner (Cambridge University Press, 2020): 71-99.
鈥淲eighing Context and Practices: Theodor Mommsen and the Many Dimensions of Humanistic Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century,鈥� in History and Theory 58 (Dec. 2020): 144-167.
鈥淧orcelain: Another Window on the Neoclassical World,鈥� in Classical Receptions Journal 12, no. 2 (April 2020): 200-230.
鈥淗ow Much Knowledge is Worth Knowing: An American Intellectual Historian鈥檚 Thoughts on Geschichte des Wissens,鈥� in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 42 (Fall 2019): 126-49.
鈥淎ncient History in the Age of the Archive,鈥� in Science in the Archives: Past, Presents, Futures, ed. Lorraine Daston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 137-158.
鈥淒ating Zarathustra: The Problem of Persian Prehistory, 1700-1900,鈥� in Erudition and the Republic of Letters 1 (2016): 203-245.
鈥淭he Great War and the Classical World,鈥� German Studies Review 38 no. 2 (2015): 239-261.
鈥淭he Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush,鈥� in Pour une histoire d鈥檃rch茅ologie XVIII si猫cle 鈥� 1945. Hommage de ses coll猫ges et amis 脿 脡ve Gran-Aymerich, Annick Fennick and Natacha Lubtchansky, eds. (Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2015): 191-206.
鈥淎ppreciating the Art of Others: Joseph Strzygowski and the Austrian Origins of Non-Western Art History,鈥� in Magdalena Dglosz and Pieter O. Scholz, eds., Von Biala nach Wien: Josef Strzygowski und die Kulturwissenschaften (Vienna, 2015).
鈥淲here does History Begin? J. G. Herder and the Problem of Near Eastern Chronology in the Age of Enlightenment,鈥� in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 47, no. 2 (2014): 157-75.
鈥淗as the History of the Disciplines Had its Day?鈥� in Rethinking Intellectual History, eds. Darrin McMahon and Samuel Moyn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013): 131-152.
鈥淓astern Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair: Orientalism in 1920s Central Europe,鈥� in Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, ed. Peter Gordon (Princeton University Press, 2013): 341-60.
鈥淧opularizing the Orient,鈥� in Intellectual History Review 17, no. 2 (July 2007): 175-202.
鈥淎rnold Boecklin and the Problem of German Modernism,鈥� in Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, eds., Germany at the Fin de Si猫cle: Culture, Politics and Ideas (Baton Rouge: 海角社区 Press, 2004).
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)
鈥淭he Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology,鈥� in Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire, eds. Glenn Penny and Matti Bunzl (Ann Arbor, 2003).
鈥淕erman Orientalism and the Decline of the West,鈥� in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (December 2001).
鈥淟eo Frobenius and the Revolt against the West,鈥� The Journal of Contemporary History 32, no. 2 (April 1997).
鈥淭he Rhetoric of Artifacts and the Decline of Classical Humanism: The Case of Josef Strzygowski,鈥� History and Theory, Beiheft 33 (Dec. 1994).
Books
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton UP, 2020)
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Race, Religion, and Scholarship (Cambridge UP, 2009)
Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970 (Princeton, UP, 1996)
co-author, Many Europes: Choice and Chance in Western Civilization (McGraw Hill, 2013)
co-editor and contributor, Germany at the Fin de Si猫cle (海角社区 UP, 2004)
co-author, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (W. W. Norton, 2002)
co-editor, Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence (Brussels, Brepols, 1997)