Suzanne L. Marchand
Associate Professor


250F Himes Hall
578-4454

smarch1@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT: Western Civilization, 1500 to present; European Intellectual History, 1700-1850; Undergraduate Historiography Survey; Graduate Readings Seminar in European History
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   Now writing a book about the study of the Orient in Germany, 1750-1945. I continue to be interested in the history of the humanities, especially classical studies, art history, anthropology, history, and philosophy in modern Europe. Am also working on several projects on the history of theology.
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:  I will happily direct theses in modern European intellectual and cultural history, as well as German and Austrian history.

BRIEF VITA

Education:
BA Berkeley (History) 1984; MA University of Chicago (History) 1986; Ph.D. University of Chicago (History) 1992

Awards and Honors:
2005 Board of Regents Fellowship
2003 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
2000-1 Wissenschaftskolleg Fellowship, Berlin
1997 Humboldt Fellowship, Berlin
1994-5 James Conant Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard
1989-90 Social Sciences Research Council, Dissertation Fellowship

Editorial Board member, Modern Intellectual History

Notable Articles: 

“Philhellenism and the Furor Orientalis,” in Modern Intellectual History 1, no. 3 (2004)

“Arnold Boecklin and the Problem of German Modernism,” in Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, eds., Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics and Ideas (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2004)

“Embarrassed by the Nineteenth Century,” in Bernard Cook et al, eds., Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2002 (Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 2004)

“From Liberalism to Neoromanticism: Albrecht Dieterich, Richard Reitzenstein and the Religious Turn in Fin de Siècle German Classical Studies,” in Out of Arcadia (British Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, 79, 2003), eds. Martin Ruehl and Ingo Gildenhard 

"The Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology," in Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire, eds. Glenn Penny and Matti Bunzl (Ann Arbor, 2003)

"The Rhetoric of Artifacts and the Decline of Classical Humanism: The Case of Josef Strzygowski," History and Theory, Beiheft 33 (Dec. 1994)

"Leo Frobenius and the Revolt against the West," The Journal of Contemporary History 32, no. 2 (April 1997)

"The End of Egyptomania," in Wilfried Seipel, ed., Ägyptomanie: Europäische Ägyptenimagination von der Antike bis heute (Vienna, 2002)

“German Orientalism and the Decline of the West,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 2001

About Down from Olympus  

Books:  

Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970 (1996)

co-editor, Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence (Brussels, Brepols, 1997)

co-author, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (2002)

co-editor and contributor, Germany at the Fin de Siècle (2004)