Raymond Birn
 Office: 363 McKenzie
Hall
Phone: (541) 346-4804
E-mail: rbirn@oregon.uoregon.edu
Biographical Information
Professor, European
Cultural History, 17th and 18th Centuries.
A.B. in 1956 at NYU
M.A. in 1957 at University
of Illinois
Ph.D. in 1961 at Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana
With the U of O since
1961
Major Publications
Pierre Rousseau
and the Philosophes of Bouillon (1964)
Crisis, Absolutism,
Revolution: Europe, 1648-1789 (1977; 2d ed., 1992)
The Printed
Word in the Eighteenth-Century (as editor of a special issue of Eighteenth-Century
Studies,1984).
Forging Rousseau:
Print, Commerce and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment
(2001)
Crisis, Absolutism, Revolution: Europe and the World, 1648-1789 (2005)
La Censure royale des Livres dans la France des Lumieres (2007)
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
Fulbright Scholar,
France
National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellow
Fellow, Center for
the History of Freedom, Washington University
Fellow, Newberry Library
Visiting Professor,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, College de France
Current Research and Writing
Book censorship
in 18th-century France
Recent Teaching
History of France
French Revolution and
Napoleonic Era
History of the Book
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