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Dr. Anthony Crubaugh

Associate Professor of History
Office
STV Stevenson Hall
Office Hours
Spring 2023: by appointment (438-3743)
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Biography

Originally from northern Wisconsin, Crubaugh has also taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, and Connecticut College. He was Chair of History 2009-17 and Co-Director of European Studies 2015-18.

Current Courses

HIS 287.002 Independent Study

Teaching Interests & Areas

Crubaugh specializes in 18th-century European history and teaches courses on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and Napoleon, Western Civilization since 1500, Early Modern France, Atlantic History, and Europe in the Age of Revolutions.

Research Interests & Areas

18th-century European history, with a particular emphasis on social history, the peasantry, and religion in the French Revolution.

Ph D 18th-century French History

Columbia University
New York, New York

MA European History

Columbia University
New York, New York

BA History

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Influential & Inspirational Faculty Member

History Department
2021

Influential & Inspirational Faculty Member

History Department
2019

Influential & Inspirational Faculty Member

History Department
2018

Impact Award

Office of the Provost and ISU University College
2018

Impact Award

Office of the Provost and ISU University College
2017

Impact Award

Office of the Provost and ISU University College
2016

Grants and Contracts

European Studies
Kathryn L Jasper, Anthony Crubaugh
OISP International Seminar Series. January 21 2018 - May 3 2018
European Studies
Anthony Crubaugh, Katie Jasper, James Van Der Laan, Lea Cline
ISU College of Arts and Sciences. February 2017 - June 30 2018
ISU Undergraduate Major in European Studies
Anthony Crubaugh, James Van Der Laan, Charles Andrew Weeks
European Union Center. September 2014 - August 2015
Jay Winter/World War I
Anthony Crubaugh
Sage Fund/Provost Office/ISU Foundation. November 2014 - March 2015

Book Review

Review of Rafe Blaufarb, The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property
Anthony Crubaugh
(2017), 17, 1-5, H-France Review
Review of "The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789"
Anthony Crubaugh
(2014), 14 (March 2014), 1-7, H-France Review
Review of David Bell, Napoleon: A Concise Biography
Anthony Crubaugh
History Teacher
Review of Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Atlantic Slave Trade
Anthony Crubaugh
History Teacher

Book, Authored

Balancing the Scales of Justice: Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800
Anthony Crubaugh
(2001), Penn State University Press

Book, Chapter

"Feudalism"
Anthony Crubaugh
(2012), 219-235, The Oxford Handbook of the Old Regime, Oxford University Press

Presentations

Property, Modernity, and the French Revolution
Anthony Crubaugh
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Atlanta, GA, March 1, 2019
Geography Lessons for Peasants
Anthony Crubaugh
European Studies, Omaha, NE, October 5, 2018
Less Law for the Rule of Law: The Institution of the Justice of the Peace in the French Revolution
Anthony Crubaugh
The Rule of Law in an Era of Social Change: Security, Social Justice, and Inclusive Governance, Athens, Greece, June 13, 2014
Comment for panel on “Church and State in Revolutionary and Nineteenth-century France”
Anthony Crubaugh
French Historical Studies conference, Cambridge, MA, April 7, 2013
Peasants into Swiss Men: National Histories in La Feuille vilageoise during the French Revolution
Anthony Crubaugh
Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Madison, WI, October 14, 2012
What is Atlantic History
Richard Soderlund, Anthony Crubaugh
Illinois Council of Social Studies annual meeting, Mclean County Museum of History, January 27, 2012