CURRICULUM VITAE OF MELVIN ALLEN EDELSTEIN

CURRICULUM VITAE OF MELVIN ALLEN EDELSTEIN

I. UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: University of Chicago(1956-60)
B.A. 1960

II. GRADUATE EDUCATION: Princeton University(1960-64)
M.A.(1962)
Ph. D.(1965)

III. DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: La Feuille Villageoise: Communication and Rural Modernization in the French
Revolution(1790-95).
Accepted September, 1965.
Thesis Director: R.R. Palmer

IV. EMPLOYMENT RECORD:
Stanford University(1964-67)-Instructor in History of Western Civilization
Herbert H. Lehman College of CUNY(1967-73)-Assistant Professor
William Paterson University of N.J(1973-79)-Associate Professor
(1979- )-Professor
(1981-87)-Chairperson

V. UNDERGRADUATE HONORS & AWARDS:
Graduated with General Honors
Phi Beta Kappa
La Verne Noyes Scholarship(1957-60)
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship(1960-61)

VI. GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Princeton University Fellowship(1961-62)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship(1962-63)
Roger William Straus Council on Human Relations Research Grant(1963)

VII. POST-DOCTORAL GRANTS:
American Philosophical Society Grant(1969)
Two grants from Herbert H. Lehman College(1969)
American Philosophical Society Grant(1975)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend(1989) $3,500
American Philosophical Society Grant(1990) $3,000
N.E.H. Travel-to-Collections Grant(1990) $750
American Philosophical Society Grant(1994) $4,000
Fulbright Fellowship for Research in France
for 6 months(1995-1996) 107,200 French francs
American Philosophical Society Grant(1999) $4,800

VIII. PUBLICATIONS & SCHOLARLY PAPERS

A. BOOKS:

1. La Feuille Villageoise: Communication Et Modernisation Dans Les Régions Rurales Pendant La Révolution: Commission D'Histoire Economique Et Sociale De La Révolution Française. Mémoires Et Documents. XXXIV (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1977), 351 pages.

B. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

1. "La Feuille villageoise, the Revolutionary Press, and the Question of Rural Political Participation," French Historical Studies, 7 #2 (Fall, 1971), 175-203.

2. "Mobilité ou Immobilité Paysanne? Sur certaines tendances conservatrices de la Révolution française," Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, No. 221 #3 (July- September, 1975), 446-477.

3. "Vers Une 'Sociologie Electorale' de la Révolution Française: La Participation des Citadins et Campagnards(1789-1793)," Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 22 (October-December, 1975), 508-529.

4. "La Noblesse et le Monopole des Fonctions Publiques en 1789," Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, No. 249 #3 (July-September, 1982), 440-443.

5. "La Place de la Révolution Française dans la Politisation des Paysans," Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, No. 280 #2 (April-June, 1990), 135-149.

6. "La Feuille villageoise and rural political modernisation," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 287 (1991), 237-260.

7. "Integrating the Peasants into the Nation-State: The Transformation of Electoral Participation(1789-1870)," History of European Ideas, 15 No. 1-3 (1992), 319-326.

8. "La Participation Electorale des Français(1789-1870)," Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 40 (October- December, 1993), 629-642.

9. "Le Comportement Electoral sous la Monarchie Constitutionnelle(1790-91): Une Interprétation 'Communautaire,'"Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, No. 301 #3 (July-September, 1995), 361-398.

10. "Le Militaire-Citoyen, ou le droit de vote des militaires pendant la Révolution française," Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, No. 310 # 4 (October-December, 1997), 585-600.

11. "Participation et Sociologie Electorales de l'Aisne en mai 1790 et juin 1791," Annales Historiques Compiégnoises," No. 71-72 (Spring, 1998), 59-68.

12. "Participation et Sociologie Electorales des Landes en 1790, Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française,
No. 329 #2 (April-June, 1999), 301-346.

C. PAPERS PUBLISHED IN A COLLECTION

1. "L'Apprentissage de la Citoyenneté: Participation Electorale des Campagnards et Citadins(1789-93)" in L'Image de la Révolution Française directed by Michel Vovelle. Communications présentées lors du Congrès Mondial pour le Bicentenaire de la Révolution Sorbonne, Paris, 6-12 juillet 1989 (4 vols.; Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989-90), I, 15-25.

2. "Electoral Behavior during the Constitutional Monarchy(1790-91): A 'Community' Interpretation," in The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship, ed. by Renée Waldinger, Philip Dawson, and Isser Woloch (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 105-122.

3. "L'établissement de la République en Côte-d'Or: Etude électorale et politique," in Révolution et République: L'Exception Française, Actes du Colloque de Paris I, Sorbonne, 21-26 septembre 1992, directed by Michel Vovelle (Paris, Editions Kimé, 1994), pp. 226-236.

4. "La réception de la Révolution en Bretagne: Etude électorale" in Pouvoir local et Révolution. Actes du Colloque international, Rennes, 28 septembre-1er octobre 1993, directed by Roger Dupuy (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 1995), pp. 193-207.

5. "L'apprentissage de la démocratie en Côte-d'Or" in

L'An I et l'apprentissage de la Démocratie, Actes du Colloque de Saint-Ouen, 21-24 juin 1993, directed by Roger Bourderon (Saint-Denis, PSD, 1995), pp. 289-308.

6. "Aux Urnes, Citoyens! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation(1789-1870)" in The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact, edited by Gail Schwab and Jean Jeanneny (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995), pp. 199-208.

7. "Les électeurs dijonnais de 1790: étude sociale et politique" in Mélanges Michel Vovelle (Paris, 1997), pp. 165-169.

8. "La Réception de la Révolution en Normandie: Etude électorale" in En Hommage à Claude Mazauric: Pour la Révolution Française(Rouen, 1998), pp. 205-210.

9. "Les élections de l'an VI dans la Côte-d'Or: le rôle des cercles constitutionnels et les scissions" in La République
directoriale (2 vols.; Paris, 1998), I, 351-364.

10. "Les élections en Côte-d'Or pendant la période révolutionnaire," in Voter et élire à l'époque contemporaine, sous la direction of Annie Bleton-Ruget and Serge Wolikow (Dijon, 1999), pp. 63-73.

11. "Le vote à Dijon durant l'époque révolutionnaire," in Voter et Elire à l'époque contemporaine, sous la direction of Annie Bleton Ruget and Serge Wolikow (Dijon, 1999), pp. 45-61.

12. "Le Bonheur est dans la conciliation: les élections des juges de paix en Côte-d'Or (Automne 1790-10 Brumaire An IV)" in Mélanges Jean Bart (forthcoming).

13. "The Book, The Newspaper, and the Printed Word in Rural Society During The French Revolution" in Le Livre dans l'Histoire de France du Moyen Age jusqu'à Nos Jours (forthcoming).

D. CONTRIBUTIONS TO HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES

1. "L'Ami du Peuple," "La Feuille villageoise," and Jean-Paul Marat in the Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, ed. by Samuel Scott and Barry Rothaus (2 vols.; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 11-14; 394-396 and pp. 630-633.

2. "Bertrand Barère" in Biographical Dictionary of Modern European Radicals and Socialists, ed. by David Nicholls and Peter Marsh (7 vols.; London: Harvester Press, 1988), I, 17-21.

E. BOOK REVIEWS

1. Patrice Gueniffey, Le Nombre et la Raison: la Révolution Française et les élections (Paris, 1993) in The American Historical Review, 100 #3 (June, 1995), 909-910.

2. Ibid. in Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française No. 303 (January-March 1996), 161-164.

F. PAPERS DELIVERED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. "La Feuille villageoise and Rural Modernization." It was delivered at an international conference: Presse d'élite, presse populaire, et propagande pendant la Révolution française" in Haifa, Israel at the University of Haifa (May 16-18, 1988).

2. "L'Apprentissage de la Citoyenneté: Participation Electorale des Campagnards et Citadins(1789-93)."
It was presented at the Congrès mondial pour le Bicentenaire de la Révolution Française at the Sorbonne, Paris from 6-12 July 1989.

3. "Integrating the French Peasants into the Nation- State: The Transformation of Electoral Participation (1789-1870)." I presented this paper at the Second Conference of the International Society of European Ideas(ISSEI) at the Catholic University of Louven, Belgium, 3-8 September 1990.

4. "Electoral Behavior during the Constitutional Monarchy (1790-91): A 'Community' Interpretation." I presented this paper at the international conference on The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship. It was held at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York on 7-8 May, 1992.

5. "L'établissement de la République en Côte-d'Or: Etude électorale et politique." I presented this paper at the international colloquium Révolution et République: L'Exception Française, celebrating the bicentennial of the First French Republic. It was held in Paris from 21-26 September 1992.

6. "De l'An I à l'An III: L'apprentissage de la démocratie en Côte-d'Or." I presented this paper in
the international colloquium L'An I et l'apprentissage de la démocratie, celebrating the bicentennial of the first democratic constitution in French history (June 24, 1793). It was held in Saint-Ouen from 21-24 June 1993.

7. "La Réception de la Révolution en Bretagne: Etude Electorale." I presented this paper in the international colloquium Pouvoir Local et Révolution, 1780-1850. It was held at the Université de Rennes from 28 September-1 October 1993.

8. "Le Militaire-Citoyen, ou le droit de vote des militaires pendant la Révolution française." I presented this paper at the 18th International Congress of Historical Studies. It was held in Montreal from 27 August-September 2, 1995.

9. "The Book, The Newspaper, and the Printed Word in Rural Society During The French Revolution." I presented this paper at the international conference Le Livre dans l'Histoire de France du Moyen Age jusqu'à Nos Jours. It was held at the University of Haifa, Israel from 13-16 May 1996.

10. "Les élections de l'an VI dans la Côte-d'Or: le rôle des cercles constitutionnels et les scissions." I presented this paper in the international colloquium La République directoriale. It was held at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand from 22-24 May 1997.

11. "Electoral Politics in France, England, and the United States in the Age of the French Revolution." I presented this paper at the Tenth Internnational Congress on the Enlightenment, which was held in Dublin from July 25-31, 1999.

G. PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MEETING

1. "The Place of the French Revolution in the Politicization of the Peasants." I presented this

paper in a panel I proposed on Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen. The A.H.A. annual meeting was held in San Francisco from 27-30 December, 1989.

2. "The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture." I presented this paper in a panel I proposed on The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture edited by Keith Baker, François Furet, Mona Ozouf, and Colin Lucas. It was held in Washington, D.C. from 27-30 December 1992.

H. PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH HISTORY

1. "Suffrage and Voting: a Comparative Study of England, the United States and France in the Era of the French Revolution." I presented this paper at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History. It was held at the University of Birmingham from 25-26 March 1997.

I. PAPERS PRESENTED AT LOCAL/REGIONAL CONFERENCES

1. "Aux Urnes, Citoyens! The Transformation of French Electoral Participation (1789-1870)." I presented this paper at Hofstra University's Bicentennial Conference: The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact. It was held from 5-7 October, 1989.

J. COMMENTATOR ON PAPERS DELIVERED AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

1. I was a commentator for the panel The Press and the French Revolution at the International Conference of Historians of the French Revolution held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. from 4-6 May 1989. IX. IN THE PIPELINE

1. I am working on an article "Les Etats-Unis furent-ils les plus démocratiques à la fin du XVIIIe siècle?"

X. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

In March, 1999, I was elected a member of the Conseil d'administration of the Société des Etudes robespierristes. In June 1999, I was named to the editorial committee of the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française.

XI. LONG-TERM RESEARCH PROJECT

France's Apprenticeship in Citizenship: The Origin of Mass Electoral Politics in the French Revolution.