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James R. Farr
Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1983
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Biography:
James R. Farr is a Professor of
History. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in
1983. He teaches European history courses in the early modern
period, as well as courses with a methodological and theoretical
emphasis (on cultural history and history and film).
He is the author of four
books: A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in
Seventeenth-Century France (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005); Artisans in Europe 1300-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000); Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern
Burgundy, 1550-1730 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Hands
of Honor: Artisans and their World in Dijon, 1550-1650 (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1988); and edited Industrial Revolution
in Europe, 1750-1914, World Eras, vol. 9 (New York: Gale,
2003).
Professor Farr is a recipient
of the following fellowships: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship,
1998-99; Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Fellowship, Princeton University, 1994-95; and The American Council
of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1994-95.
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