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Naomi J. Andrews

Lecturer
O'Connor Hall 203B
tel (408)554-6848
fax (408)554-2181
nandrews@scu.edu

 

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ph.D., History, December 1998.

M.A., History, June 1993.



 

CURRENT RESEARCH

The Global Frontiers of Utopia: Romantic Socialists Imagine Humanity

This book-length project will investigate the pro-imperialist views of romantic socialists in the context of France’s role in slavery abolition, colonialism, and the emerging sciences of sex and race in the first half of the nineteenth century.

 

Articles in progress:

“Romantic socialists theorize the mission civilisatrice.

“Boundaries internal, external, and unseen: Romantic socialists on race, sex, and culture.”

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Socialism’s Muse: Gender in the Intellectual Landscape of French Romantic Socialism, April 2006, Lexington Books.

 

Articles:

“Utopian Androgyny: Romantic Socialists Confront Individualism in JulyMonarchy France,” French Historical Studies 26:3, Summer2003.

 

“The Feminist and the Socialist: Adèle and Alphonse Esquiros,” Proceedings for the Western Society for French History, vol. 29, 2003.

 

“ ‘La Mère Humanité’: Femininity in the Romantic Socialism of Pierre Leroux and the Abbé A. –L. Constant,” The Journal of the History of Ideas, 63: 4, October 2002.

Courses

History 11A: Slavery and Unfreedom in World History

History 12A: The Imperial West

History 23: Modern Western Civilization: The Dilemmas of Modernity

Honors 13: Late Modern Western Culture: The Perils of Individuality

History 116: Sex and Gender in the Age of High Imperialism


History 115: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in the Modern World