"Language of Class in the French Revolution: The Problem of the Missing Bourgeoisie" is the title of the Matthew Vassar Lecture to be given by Sarah Crawford Maza, Jane Long Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, in Spitzer Auditorium, Sanders Hall, Vassar College.
The lecture, sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the departments of history, sociology, French, anthropology, and political science, and the urban studies program, is free and open to the public.
Maza specializes in the social and cultural history of 18th and 19th century France. She has published two books, "Servants and Master in Eighteenth-Century France" (1983) and "Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Pre-Revolutionary France" (1993), which won the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies. She is currently completing a book on the problem of the bourgeoisie in the France "social Imaginary" between 1750 and 1850. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the John Simon Guggenhim Foundation. Maza held a visiting appointment at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris in the spring of 1998.
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