Professor of History
- B.A. (1980) Swarthmore College
- Ph.D. (1991) Princeton University
- Shanti.M.Singham@williams.edu
- Stetson 402
- 413.597.2339
- Office Hours
- Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
- Courses
- HIST 129: Religion, Race, and Gender in the Age of the French Revolution
- HIST 229: European Imperialism: The Conquest and Division of the World
- HIST 249: The Caribbean From Slavery to Independence
- HIST 301D: Is History Eurocentric?
- HIST 330: The Social History of Ideas: Enlightenment and Revolution
- HIST 331: The French and Haitian Revolutions
- HIST 472: Slavery, Capitalism, and Revolution: The Impact of the New World on Europe, 1700-1900
- Research
- “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in pre-Revolutionary France” (paper for upcoming French Historical studies Conference, Paris, 2004)
- “Religion, Race, and Politics, Then and Now: The French Revolution and ‘Old Europe’” (paper given to Centre Americain de Sciences Politiques, Paris, 2003)
- Currently completing book manuscript entitled “Rehearsal for Revolution: The Maupeou Crisis and the Making of Political Consciousness in France, 1771-1774.”
- New area of research: France, Islam, and the Arabic wold, 1789 to the present.
- Thesis Students
- Elisa Beller '01, Drefus Affair
- Alexandra Orme '04, Women and the French Revolution
- Selected Publications
- “Imbued with Patriotism: The Maupeou Crisis and the Politicization of the Memoires Secrets,” in Bernadette Fort and Jeremy Popkin eds., The Memoires Secrets and the Secrets of the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation, History of the Periodical Press series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
- “Betwixt Cattle and Men: Jews, Blacks, and Women and the Declaration of the Rights of Man,” in Dale Van Kley, ed., The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 (Stanford University Press, 1994).
- “The Correspondance Secrète: Forging Patriotic Public Opinion During the Maupeou Years,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 18:2 (Summer 1992).
- “Vox populi, vox dei: les jansénistes pendant la révolution Maupeou,” in Jansénisme et Révolution. Actes du colloque de Versailles, tenu au Palais de congrès les 13 et 14 octobre 1989, réunis par Catherine Maire (Paris, 1990).