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James R. Farr
Professor, Department of History
Office: UNIV 311
Office Phone: (765) 496-2698
Office Fax: (765) 496-1755
Email: jrfarr@purdue.edu
Specialization: European History; Early Modern Europe
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.
