Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Joshua Humphreys
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Modern Europe (France, Britain, Germany), France & America
• Ph.D., New York University (History and French Studies)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Problems of capitalism
  • Social reform and welfare states
  • Civil society and pluralism
  • Philanthropy
  • Democracy and democratic theory
  • European social and political thought (liberalism, socialism, Marxism, utopianism, progressivism)
  • global, comparative and transnational history (esp. European and trans-Atlantic comparisons)
  • historiography; the Twentieth Century
  • Colonialism
  
  
  • Authors: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, Zola, Stendhal, Flaubert, Thomas Mann, Durkheim/Durkheim School, Weber, Frankfurt School, Annales School, Raymond Aron, Gide, Sartre, Camus, Foucault, Orwell
• DISSERTATION: "Servants of Social Progress: Democracy, Capitalism and Social Reform in France, 1914-1940"
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: jhumphr [at] fas
• OFFICE: Barker 031
• OFFICE PHONE: (617) 710-2853

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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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