Dr. Anthony Crubaugh
Associate Professor of History
Dean of Arts and Sciences
Office
STV Stevenson Hall
Office Hours
Spring 2023: by appointment (438-3743)
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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.
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
Book Review
Review of Rafe Blaufarb, The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property for H-France Review 17 (August 2017): 1-5
Review of Albert Hamscher, The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789 for H-France Review 14 (March 2014): 1-7
Review of David A. Bell, Napoleon: A Concise Biography in History Teacher (in press)
Review of Rafe Blaufarb & Liz Clarke, Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History in History Teacher (in press)
Book, Authored
Balancing the Scales of Justice: Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)
Book, Chapter
"Feudalism," in William Doyle, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Old Regime (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 219-235
Journal Article
"The Peasant at the Gates of Heaven: La Feuille villageoise, Religion, and the French Revolution, 1790-1792," in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 38 (2010): 127-141
Crubaugh, A. ’Le Bon sens villageois’: Images of the Peasantry in French Revolutionary Newspapers, 1789-91. Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 30.2006
Presentations
Property, Modernity, and the French Revolution. Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. (2019)
Geography Lessons for Peasants. European Studies. (2018)
"Less Law for the Rule of Law: The Institution of the Justice of the Peace in the French Revolution" at The Rule of Law in an Era of Social Change: Security, Social Justice, and Inclusive Governance conference, Athens, Greece, June 2014
Comment for panel on “Church and State in Revolutionary and Nineteenth-century France” at the French Historical Studies conference, Cambridge, MA, April 2013
What is Atlantic History. Illinois Council of Social Studies annual meeting. Illinois Council of Social Studies. (2012)
Peasants into Swiss Men: National Histories in La Feuille vilageoise during the French Revolution at the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Madison, WI, October 2012
Grants & Contracts
European Studies. OISP International Seminar Series. Illinois State University. (2018)
European Studies. ISU College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2017)
ISU Undergraduate Major in European Studies. European Union Center. Other. (2014)
Jay Winter/World War I. Sage Fund/Provost Office/ISU Foundation. Illinois State University. (2014)