Professor of History

Ph.D., Columbia University 1994

History Department
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Phone: (212) 772 5346
Fax:     (212) 772 5545
Email: hrosenbl@hunter.cuny.edu

Research Interests

European Intellectual History
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Benjamin Constant
Republicanism; Liberalism
Christian Thought; Church/State Relations

Undergraduate Teaching

Early Modern Europe 1500-1815; French Revolution and Napoleon; The Enlightenment
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Then and Now (Thomas Hunter Honors Program); Cultural History; Despots, Democrats and Demagogues in French History; Sister Revolutions (U.S. and France)

Graduate Teaching

Enlightenment and Revolution; Nineteenth Century French Political Theory
The Enlightenment; Literature of Early Modern Europe; Freshman Writing Seminar

Publications

Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762, Cambridge University Press,  Ideas in Context Series, 1997. Paperback 2007.

Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Summer 2008.

(ed.)Cambridge Companion to Constant, Cambridge University Press, expected publication date: 2008

“The Christian Enlightenment,” in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol VII: Enlightenment, Revolution and Reawakening (1660-1815), eds. Timothy Tackett and Stewart Brown, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 283-301.

“On the Intellectual Sources of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, and the Debates about a National Religion,” French Politics, Culture & Society 25, 3 (Winter 2007), pp. 1-18.

“Rousseau the anti-Cosmopolitan,” Daedalus, expected publication date: early 2008.

“Madame de Staël, the Protestant Reformation and the History of ‘Private Judgement,’” Annales Benjamin Constant, in press.

“Rousseau’s Gift to Geneva,” Modern Intellectual History 3, 1 (2006), pp. 65-73.

“Two Liberals on Religion: Constant and Tocqueville Compared,” Annales Benjamin Constant 29 (2005), pp.159-170.

“Why Constant? A Critical Overview of the Constant Revival,” Modern Intellectual History 1, 3 (2004), pp. 439-453.

“Re-evaluating Benjamin Constant’s Liberalism: Industrialism, Saint-Simonianism and the Restoration Years,” in History of European Ideas 30, 1 (2004), pp. 23-37.

“Commerce et religion dans le libéralisme de Benjamin Constant,” Commentaire 102 (Summer, 2003), pp. 415-426.

For Oxford University Press’ Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, editor in chief: Alan Charles Kors, 2002:“Calvinism,” “Civil Society,” “Luxury,” “Swiss Reformed Church” “Switzerland”

“On the ‘Misogyny’ of Rousseau: the Letter to d’Alembert in Historical Perspective,” French Historical Studies, 25:1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 91-114.

“Reinterpreting Adolphe: the Sexual Politics of Benjamin Constant,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Winter, 2002), pp. 341-360.

“’Colonnes de la patrie’ ou ‘froids égoïstes’: les capitalistes genevois vus de chez eux,” Swiss Historical Journal, vol 50 (Summer, 2000), pp.304-324.

“Nouvelles perspectives sur De la religion: Benjamin Constant et la Franc-maçonnerie,” Annales Benjamin Constant 23-24 (2000), pp.143-152.

“The Language of Genevan Calvinism in the Eighteenth Century,” in P. Coleman, A. Hofmann, S. Zurbuchen eds., Reconceptualizing Nature, Science and Aesthetics (Geneva, 1998), pp.69-78.

“Le ‘Contrat social’, une oeuvre genevoise? L’Ecole du droit naturel et le débat politique à Genève: la réponse de Rousseau,” in Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire et d’Archéologie, vol. 21 (1991), pp.13-26.

Book reviews in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Modern History, H-Net France, History of Political Thought