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Professor Harrison regularly teaches the survey of European history, women in modern Europe, and the Enlightenment. She teaches a graduate seminar on history and theory and another on women and gender. Her first book, The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation, explored the formation of a male bourgeois elite in post revolutionary France.

Current Activities

I am presently completing a book about lay Catholics and their church in nineteenth-century France. I’m interested in the reconstitution of the church after the Revolution and in questioning the notion that religion, especially Catholicism, was somehow "feminized" in modern France. The research examines how women, men, and children practiced their faith, forming Catholic families that aspired to the regeneration of a Catholic France.  I am also beginning research on the nineteenth-century French writer Pauline Craven, née de la Ferronnays, whose memoir of family life, Récit d’une soeur, was a staple of adolescent girls’ reading.

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