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A. Whitney Walton
Professor, Department of History
Coordinator, Study Abroad Programs - History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison,
1983
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Main Office Phone: 765-494-4122
University Hall
672 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2087
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Biography:
Professor Walton specializes in the
cultural, social, and gender history of modern Europe, especially France
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She earned her Ph.D.
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. Her current
research interests are transnational and comparative. She is
working on a history of study abroad between France and the United
States from 1870-1970. This research has been supported by a Spencer
Foundation Small Research Grant for 2002, a College of Liberal Arts
Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship in 2004, and a Fulbright
Research Scholar Award in 2005.
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Publications
include:
France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois
Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century
(University of California Press, 1992) - argues that bourgeois
consumer preference for stylish and tasteful goods contributed
to the persistence of handicraft manufacturing in France
during the Industrial Revolution.
Her most recent book, Eve's Proud
Descendants : Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in
Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press,
2000), is a biographical study and historical analysis of four
female literary figures, including George Sand, who rescripted
republicanism to include a public role for women by offering
an egalitarian alternative to the patriarchal family and the
gendered separation of spheres. She has also published
numerous articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century
French social, cultural, and women's history.
She has a book manuscript entitled, Internationalized
Beyond Repair: National Identities, Internationalism,
and Study Abroad between France and the United States,
1870-1970, currently under review for publication.
This work analyzes how students abroad experience challenges
to national stereotypes, re-evaluate their own national
identities, and learn toleration and appreciation for
cultural difference. In other words, this study
explains how young people become internationalists while
retaining national identities.
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