PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND EDITED WORKS:

• Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1975; paperback ed., 1982).
• Condorcet: Selected Writings, translated, edited, and with an introduction (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1976).
• "Report of the Commission on Graduate Education," The University of Chicago Record, vol. 16, no. 2 (3 May, 1982), pp. 67-180 (principal author and editor).
• The Old Regime and the French Revolution , edited with an introduction (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987; volume 7 in University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization ).
• The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol.1, The Political Culture of the Old Regime, edited with an introduction (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1987).
• Condorcet. Raison et politique (Paris, Hermann, 1988). (French translation of Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics ).
• Inventing the French Revolution. Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• The Maupeou Revolution: The Transformation of French Politics at the End of the Old Regime, edited with an introduction; special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 18, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 1-16.
• Au tribunal de l’opinion. Essais sur l'imaginaire politique au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, Payot, 1993). (Partial French translation of Inventing the French Revolution, with revised introduction.)
• The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol.4, The Terror, edited with an introduction (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1994).
• [With Peter Hanss Reill] What’s Left of Enlightenment? A Postmodern Question, edited with an introduction (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2001).

ARTICLES:

• "An Unpublished Essay of Condorcet on Technical Methods of Classification," Annals of Science, 18 (1962 [1964]): 99-123.
• "The Early History of the Term 'Social Science'," Annals of Science, 20 (1964 [1965]): 211-226.
• [With W.A. Smeaton]"The Origins and Authorship of the Educational Proposals...Generally Ascribed to Lavoisier," Annals of Science, 21 (1965 [1966]): 33-46.
• "Condorcet," in Paul Edwards, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York, 1967), 2: 182-184.
• "Scientism, Elitism and Liberalism: The Case of Condorcet," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 55 (1967): 129-165.
• "Les débuts de Condorcet au secrétariat de l'Académie royale des sciences (1773-1776)," Revue d'histoire des sciences, 20 (1967): 229-280.
• "Un 'éloge' officieux de Condorcet: sa notice historique et critique sur Condillac," Revue de synthèse, 3e série, nos 47-48 (1967): 227-251.
• "Science and the Social Order in the Old Regime" (review essay), Minerva, 10 (1972): 502-508.
• "Politics and Social Science in Eighteenth-Century France: the Société de 1789," in J.F. Bosher, ed., French Government and Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Memory of Alfred Cobban (London, Athlone Press, 1973), pp. 203-230.
• "Condorcet's Notes for a Revised Edition of his Reception Speech to the Académie française," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 149 (1977): 7-68.
• "French Political Thought at the Accession of Louis XVI," Journal of Modern History, 50 (1978): 279-303.
• "State, Society and Subsistence in Eighteenth-Century France" (review essay), Journal of Modern History, 50 (1978): 701-711.
• "Memory, Judgment, Choice" (Convocation address), The University of Chicago Record, 13 (1978): 154-156.
• "A Script for a French Revolution: The Political Consciousness of the abbé Mably," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 14 (1981): 235-263. (Reprinted in Jack R. Censer, ed., The French Revolution and Intellectual History [Chicago, 1989], pp. 75-93.)
• "Enlightenment and Revolution in France: Old Problems, Renewed Approaches" (review essay), Journal of Modern History, 53 (1981): 281-303.
• "Un copione per la Rivoluzione francese: la conscienza politica dell'abate Mably," Rivista storica italiana, 93 (1981): 315-345 (Italian translation of “A Script for a french Revolution”).
• "On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution," in Dominick LaCapra and Steven L. Kaplan, eds., Modern European Intellectual History : Reappraisals and New Perspectives (Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1982), pp. 197-219. (Reprinted in German in Christoph Conrad and Martina Kessel, Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne [Stuttgart, Reclam, 1994], 251-282.)
• "On the Problem of the Randomness of Ends," in Leonora Cohen Rosenfield and Richard H. Popkin, eds., Condorcet Studies I (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press, 1984), pp. 73-80.
• "Condorcet," "Legendre," "Montesquieu,'' "Social Contract," in Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus, eds., A Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799, 2 vols. (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1985).
• "Memory and Practice: Politics and the Representation of the Past in Eighteenth-Century France," Representations, no. 11 (1985): 134-164.
• "The Language of Liberty in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: Early Writings of Guillaume-Joseph Saige," L'Età dei lumi. Studi storici sul settecento Europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, 2 vols. (Naples, 1985), 1:331-370.
• "Politics and Public Opinion under the Old Regime: Some Reflections," in Jack Censer and Jeremy Popkin, eds., Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987), pp. 205-246.
• "Politique et opinion publique sous l'ancien regime," Annales (janv.-fév. 1987): 41-71.
• "Science and Politics at the End of the Old Regime: Reflections on a Theme of Professor Charles Gillispie," Minerva, 25(1987): 21-34.
• "Representation,'' in K.M. Baker, ed., The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol.1, The Political Culture of the Old Regime (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1987), pp. 469-492.
• "Revolution," in Colin Lucas, ed., The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol.2, The Political Culture of the French Revolution (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1988), pp. 41-62.

• "Condorcet," "Constitution," "Sieyès," "Souverainété nationale," in François Furet and Mona Ozouf, eds., Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française (Paris, Flammarion1988); trans., Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1989)
• "Sieyès and the Creation of French Revolutionary Discourse," in Loretta Valtz Mannucci, ed., The Languages of Revolution (Quaderno 2) (Milan, 1989), pp. 195-205.
• "Closing the French Revolution: Saint-Simon and Comte," in François Furet and Mona Ozouf, eds., The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol.3, 1789-1848 (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1989), pp. 323-39.
• "La bombe Sieyès," Le Monde de la Révolution française, no. 1 (janvier, 1989):10.
• "A Script for Modern Politics," France Magazine, no. 13 (Spring 1989): 54-7.
• "A World Transformed," The Wilson Quarterly, 13(3) (Summer, 1989): 37-45.
• "L'Unité de la pensée de Condorcet," in Pierre Crépel and Christian Gilain, eds., Condorcet: mathématicien, économiste, philosophe, homme politique (Paris, Minerve,1989), pp. 515-24.
• [with Steven Laurence Kaplan] "Editors' Introduction," to Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution, multi-volume series edited by Keith Michael Baker and Steven Laurence Kaplan (Duke University Press, 1989-) (3 vols. to date)
• "Le moment Condorcet?" Le Monde de la Révolution française, no. 12 (décembre, 1989):28-9.
• "Reason and Revolution: Political Consciousness and Ideological Invention at the End of the Old Regime," in Mordecai Feingold and Richard Bienvenu, eds., In the Presence of the Past. Essays in Honor of Frank Manuel (Amsterdam, Kluwer, 1991).
• "Defining the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France: Variations on a Theme by Habermas," in Craig Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1991), pp. 181-211.
• "Condorcet ou la république de la raison," in François Furet and Mona Ozouf, eds, Le siècle de l’avènement républicain (Paris, Gallimard, 1993), pp. 225-255.
• “Condorcet o la Repubblica della ragione,” in François Furet and Mona Ozouf, eds., L’idea di Repubblica nell’Europa moderna (Rome, Laterza, 1993), pp. 233-264 (Italian translation of preceding item).
• “Public Opinions and Revolutionary Thoughts: Searching for Eighteenth-Century Culture,” The ARTFL Project Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 1 (Winter 1992-3), 2-3.
• "Enlightenment and the Institution of Society: Notes for a Conceptual History," in W.F.B. Melching and W.R.E. Velema, eds. Main Trends in Cultural History (Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi, 1994), pp. 95-120.
• “A Foucauldian Account of the French Revolution?” in Jan Goldstein, ed., Foucault and the Writing of History (Oxford, Blackwell,1994), pp. 187-205.
• [with Roger Chartier] "Dialogue sur l'espace public," Politix, no. 26 (1994): 5-22 .
• "The Idea of a Declaration of Rights," in Dale Van Kley ed., The French Idea of Freedom: Origins of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Stanford, Stanford University Press,1994), pp. 154-196.
• “L’homme social,” in Philippe Roger, ed., L’homme des lumières: De Paris à Pétersbourg (Naples, Vivarium, 1995), pp. 133-152 (French translation of “Enlightenment and the Institution of Society”).
• “Aufklärung und die Erfindung der Gesellschaft,” in Wolfgang Klein and Waltraud Naumann-Beyer, eds., Nach der Aufklärung? (Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1995), pp.109-124 (German translation of “Enlightenment and the Institution of Society”).
• [With Joseph Zizek] "American Historiography of the French Revolution," in Anthony Molho and Gordon Wood, eds., Historical Writing in the United States (Princeton,1998).
• "Introduction" to Pierre Rétat, ed., Les Gazettes Européennes et l'information politique de l'Ancien Régime (1999).
• “Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France,” Journal of Modern History (2001): 32-53.
• “Epistémologie et politique: Pourquoi l’Encyclopédie est-elle un dictionnaire?” in Robert Morrissey and Philippe Roger, eds., L’Encyclopédie. Du réseau au livre et du livre au réseau (Paris, 2001), pp. 51-58.
• “Condorcet,” “Revolution,” in Alan Charles Kors, ed., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2002).
• “Le trasformazione del republicanesimo classico nella Francia del Settecento,” in Maurizio Viroli, ed., Libertà politica e virtù civile. Significati et percorsi del repubblicanesimo classico (Torino, Edizione della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 2004), pp. 149-175 (Italian translation of “Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France”).

• “The Gimon Collection: A Resource for Scholarship,” in Mary Jane Parrine, ed., A Vast and Useful Art: The Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy (Stanford University Libraries, 2004), pp. 19-23.
• “On Condorcet’s ‘Sketch’“ and translation of Condorcet, “Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Tenth Epoch,” Daedalus 113, no. 3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 56-64, 65-82.
• Political Languages of the French Revolution,” in Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler, eds., The Cambridge History of Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
• “Après la ‘Culture politique’? De nouveaux courants dans l’approche linguistique", XVIIIe siècle (forthcoming).
• “Venturi’s Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment,” in Manuela Albertone, ed., Il repubblicanesimo moderno” (Naples, Bibliopolis, forthcoming), pp. 19-43.

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Book reviews in Journal of Modern History, American Historical Review, Isis, Science, Washington Post Book World, New York Times Book Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS:

UNDERGRADUATE:

• Open Exhibition in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge (1957-60)
• College Prize for History, Peterhouse, Cambridge (1960)
• Title of Scholar of the College, Peterhouse, Cambridge (1960)

GRADUATE:

• Fulbright Travel Grant (1960-61)
• Teaching Assistantship, Cornell University (1960-61)
• Ministry of Education State Studentship (U.K.) (1961-64)
• Research Fellowship, Institute for Historical Research, University of London (1963-64)

POSTGRADUATE:

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Junior Faculty (1967-68)
• University of Chicago Inland Steel Fellowship (Summer, 1969)
• American Council of Learned Societies Study Fellowship (1972-73)
• University of Chicago Press Laing Prize (1975) (for Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy toSocial Mathematics)
• History of Science Society Special Citation for Outstanding Merit (1975) (for Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics)
• American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid (Summer, 1976)
• Guggenheim Fellowship (1979)
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1979-80)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto (1986-87)
• Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (conferred 1988)
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1991)
• Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (elected 1994)
• Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen (1994)
• Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge (elected 1994)
• Member, American Philosophical Society (elected 1997)
• Second Vice-President (1998), Vice-President (1999), President (2000), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Co-President, Society for French Historical Studies (2004-5)
  

ACADEMIC CAREER:

REED COLLEGE:

• Instructor in History and the Humanities (1964-65)
  

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO:

• Assistant Professor of European History (1965-70);
• Associate Professor... (1970-76);
• Professor in the Department of History and the College, in the Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine, and in the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science (1977-89)
• Yale University: Visiting Associate Professor of European History (1974)
• Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris: Directeur d'études invité (1982, 1984, 1986, 1991)
  

STANFORD UNIVERSITY:

• Professor of History (1988 to present); J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities (1992 to present);
• Anthony P. Meier Family Professor and Director, Stanford Humanities Center (1995-2000)
  

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES:

• French Revolution Bicentennial Professor (1989)
  

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO:

• Associate Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division (1974-75)
• Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Associate Dean of the College; Associate Dean, Division of the Social Sciences (1975-78)
• Chair, Commission on Graduate Education (1980-82)
• Director, John M. Olin Program in the History of Political Culture (1987-88)
  

STANFORD UNIVERSITY:

• Chair, Department of History (1994-5)
• Director, Stanford Humanities Center (1995-2000)
• Cognizant Dean for the Humanities, School of Humanities and Sciences (January 2000 to December 2003)
• Director, Institute for French Interdisciplinary Studies, 2000-03
• Jean-Paul Gimon Director, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004-
  

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

EDITORIAL:

• Book Review Editor, Journal of Modern History (1971-72)
• Member, Board of Editors, French Historical Studies (1976-79)
• Member, Board of Editors, Ethics (1979-80)
• Co-Editor, Journal of Modern History (1980-89)
• Member, Editorial Board, French Revolution Research Collection (extensive microform collection published by Pergamon Press)
• Historical Adviser, Bastille, William Benton Broadcast Project, University of Chicago (12-part radio program) (1988-89)
• Series Editor (with Steven L. Kaplan) of Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution, published by Duke University Press
  

ORGANIZATIONAL:

• Member, Steering Committee, Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago (1980-88)
• Member, Organizing Committee, International Research Conferences on "The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture" (1984-88); principal responsibility for organizing the Conference on the Political Culture of the Old Regime (Chicago, 1986)
• Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on The Terror in the French Revolution, Stanford University, 1992; principal responsibility for conference organization
• Co-Director, NEH Summer Institute, “Institutions of Enlightenment: The Invention of the Public Sphere,“ Summer 1995 (with John Bender)
• Elected Member, Executive Committee, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2003- )

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

• Member, Conseil d'Administration, Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris (1984-)
• Chair, Scholars Committee, and Member, American Committee for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution (1987-9)
• Member, Committee on Committees, American Historical Association (1991-94)
• Fellowship Selection Committees, Mellon Foundation, ACLS