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  Degrees:

BA, Hanover College.

MA, University of Chicago.

PhD, University of Chicago.

 

  Chair, Department of History

 

  Assistant Professor of History

 

  Academic Department:

History

 

 

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Profile updated: Feb-10

 
 

 

Professors Stephen Sawyer (History), Oliver Feltham (Philosophy) and Justin McGuinness (Communications) have launched a new major in urban studies at AUP. The program is interdisciplinary with a core in the social sciences, humanities, and urban studies. Urban studies at AUP is a university-wide initiative that integrates teaching and research opportunities around the urban into an ambitious program for both students and faculty. Students at AUP have opportunities to study and visit cities across Europe and into Africa and Asia that are linked back to the classroom creating an “urban learning experience” that does not end at the boundaries of disciplines or nations.

 
 

 
Stephen W. Sawyer specializes in urban political history with an emphasis on the role of cities in territorial and state construction in the Atlantic world. He has taught courses in American Civilization for the agrégation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm), the history of planning theory for the Master’s program in Urban Planning at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and was Lecturer in History at the University of Chicago from 2003-2008. He is currently preparing a book manuscript for publication on the history of the Paris Municipality from 1789-1880. In recent articles, he has begun exploring trans-Atlantic urban development and the structural role of cities in defining political modernities.
 
 
 

 
 

  Publications

 

In progress: The Revolutionary Municipality: Crafting a Local Parisian Power in Revolutionary France, 1789-1880 (Manuscript).

 

2009 Co-editor with Jan Goldstein of edited conference papers, Paris-Chicago: Urban Cultures in Comparative Perspective. In Cahiers Parisiens, vol. V (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

 

 

 

  Articles and Book Chapters

 

2010 “The Infinite Space of the Particular: Planning the American City in Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham and Frank Lloyd Wright,” Cultural Transformations in the English Speaking World (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press).

 

2009 “Définir un intérêt particulier parisien : les élections et l’administration municipal de Paris au milieu du XIXe siècle,” Annales. Histoire et Sciences Sociales, no 2, pp 407-433.

 

2009 “The Site of Generality: Placing Chicago in the American Regime of Commensurability” in Paris-Chicago: Urban Cultures in Comparative Perspective. Cahiers Parisiens. Vol. 5 (University of Chicago Press).

 

2009 “Edouard Laboulaye et la statue de la liberté” La lettre du collège de France, no 26, (June), pp 53-55.

 

2009 “The French Foundations of the American Capital: Eighteenth-Century French Political Theory and the Creation of Washington, D.C.” La France en Amérique. Susanne Berthier-Foglar, ed. Éditions de l'université de Savoie, pp 187-205.

 

2009 “Je peins le passage: Police Power in Foucault’s 1978-1979 Collège de France lectures,” Carceral Notebooks, Bernard Harcourt, ed., vol 4, pp 131-137.

 

2008 “Placing Sovereignty: Democratic capitals as an histoire-problème,” La Revue Tocqueville, Vol. XXIX, n° 2, pp 95-110.

 

2008 “Between Authorship and Agency: Democracy as History in the Work of George Bancroft,” Revue française d’études américaines, “L’expérience littéraire de l’histoire au dix-neuvième siècle,” no. 118, vol. 4, pp 49-66.

 

2007 “A Question of Life or Death: Administrative Bodies and Administrating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” in Fields of Expertise: A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to present. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 291-315.

 

2005 “Locating the Center: Confining and Defining the Capital through the Parisian Fortifications.” Special issue on Centers and Peripheries. Nottingham French Studies. February, pp 20-37.

 

2002 Pamphlets and Periodicals from the Revolution of 1848. Interactive and fully searchable on-line database of over 200 rare and previously unavailable newspapers and pamphlets from the 1848 Revolution in France (www.humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/Projects/CRL).

 

 

 

  Encyclopedia Articles

 

Under contract Paris. Global Studies Encyclopedia. Sage Publications.

 

2009 1848. Encyclopedia of Revolutions, Uprisings and Popular Movements. Blackwell.

 

2009 Hotel de Ville. Encyclopedia of Revolutions, Uprisings and Popular Movements. Blackwell.

 

2005 Duvergier de Hauranne, Ernest. Encyclopedia of French-American Relations. Ed. Bill Marshall. ABC-Clio.

 

 

 

  Book Reviews and Review Essays

 

Under contract: 1830. Le peuple de Paris. Révolution et représentations sociales, Nathalie Jakobowicz. Annales. Histoires et Sciences Sociales.

 

Under contract: When the French Tried to Be British: Party, Opposition, and the Quest for Civil Disagreement, 1814-1848, J. A. W. Gunn. Journal of Modern History.

 

Under contract Le Commissaire de police au XIXème siècle. Dominique Kalifa and Pierre Karila-Cohen. Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

 

2010 Globalization and Sovereignty, John Agnew. La vie des idées,

 

2010 The Stonemasons of the Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Casey Harrison. Journal of Modern History.

 

2009 Les ennemis de Paris. La haine de la grande ville des Lumières à nos jours, Bernard Marchand. Cahiers Jean Jaurès, 3-4 (N° 193-194).

 

2009 1848, la Révolution oubliée, Michelle Riot-Sarcey et Maurizio Gribaudi. Cahiers Jean Jaurès, 3-4 (N° 193-194).

 

2009 Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry M. Bartels, La vie des idées (http://www.laviedesidees.fr/The-Politics-of-Inequality.html)

 

2008 Planning Before Haussmann, Nicholas Papayanis. European History Quarterly, vol 38.

 

2007 Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe - fin XXe siècle), Yannick Marec, ed. H-France.

 

 

 

  Article and Lecture Translations

 

2008 Pierre Rosanvallon, “Democratic Universalism as a Historical Problem” (http://www.laviedesidees.fr/)

 

2006 Monique David-Ménard. “Democracy and Subjectivity.” Paper given for Trope, Affect, and Democratic Subjectivity at the Center for Global Culture and Communication, Northwestern University.

 

2006 Pierre Rosanvallon. The Democracy of Distrust: Institutions and Practices of Counter-Politics in Historical Perspective. Cours au Collège de France given for the Sealy Lectures at Cambridge University.

 

2004 Jean-Luc Nancy. “The Technique of the Present.” Trans. Agnès Derail-Imbert and Stephen W. Sawyer. In On Kawara: Paintings of 40 Years. New York: David Werner.

 
 
 

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Petermichael von Bawey

University Professor

 

Steven Englund

Professor of History

 

Terence Murphy

Professor of History and Political Science

 

Marie-Thérèse Roussel

Assistant Professor of French, French Studies, and European and Mediterranean Cultures

 

Stephen Sawyer

Assistant Professor of History; Chair, Department of History.

 

George Wanklyn

Associate Professor of European and Mediterranean Cultures and Art History

 
 

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