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Personal History



I did my first degree at the University of Melbourne and my doctorate at Oxford University. I have been teaching European history at Monash University since 1984 and have served as Associate Dean (Teaching) in the Arts Faculty and Head of the School of Historical Studies. I was a Visiting Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2003 and early 2008 and in June 2005 was Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyons. In 2003 my book The Making of Revolutionary Paris won the NSW Premier's Prize for History (General Section) and in 2004 I was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. I have served on the Executive of the Australian Historical Association, the Editorial Boards of H-France, French Historical Studies, and the Australian Journal of French Studies. I have twice co-organized the George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilization, a major international conference.

I am a lifelong supporter of Oxfam (formerly Community Aid Abroad) and like cats.

Current Research



A history of Protestants and religious toleration in eighteenth-century Paris; a history of religious confraternities in eighteenth-century Paris; a comparative social history of Paris, Milan and Stockholm in the eighteenth century. I am also part of an interdisciplinary team working on a history of freindship in the Western world. It will be published in 2008.

Major Publications

Books
The Making of Revolutionary Paris, University of California Press, 2002. 278 p.
The Formation of the Parisian Bourgeoisie, 1690 - 1830, Harvard University Press, 1996. 352 p.
Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740 - 1790, Cambridge University Press, 1986. 382 p.

Edited collections
David Garrioch & Mark Peel (eds), The Social History of Urban Neighborhoods, special number of Journal of Urban History, vol. 32, no. 5 (July 2006).
David Garrioch, Harold Love, Ian Morrison, Brian McMullin and Meredith Sherlock (eds), The Culture of the Book. Essays from two hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1999). 474 p. I edited approx. 1/4 of the essays.
David Garrioch (ed.), Two Hundred Years of the French Revolution. Proceedings of the Sixth George Rudé Seminar, Monash History Department Occasional Publications, 1989.

Major journal articles
'La bourgeoisie parisienne au début du XIXe siècle : le cas du faubourg Saint-Marcel’, Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle, 34 (2007), 39-54
'La sécularisation précoce de Paris au XVIIIe siècle', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2005:12, 35-75
'La persistance des confréries milanaises au dix-huitième siècle', Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 52 (2005), 50-73
'The local experience of Revolution: the Gobelins/Finistère Section in Paris',French History and Civilisation. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar, vol. 1 (2005), 20-29 : http://www.h-france.net/Rudé/FHC/vol1/index.html
'Daniel Roche and the history of Paris', French Historical Studies, vol. 27, no. 4 (Fall 2004), 733-40
'Lay-religious associations, urban identities, and urban space in eighteenth-century Milan', Journal of Religious History, 28 (2004), 35-49
'Sounds of the City. The Soundscape of European Towns, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century', Urban History, 30 (2003), 5-25
'Sacred Neighbourhoods and Secular Neighbourhoods: Milan and Paris in the Eighteenth Century', Journal of Urban History, vol. 27, no. 4 (May 2001), 405-19
'L'habitat urbain à Paris, XVIIIe - XIXe siècles', Cahiers d'histoire 4 (1999), 573-89
'The Everyday Lives of Parisian Women and the October Days of 1789', Social History 24 (1999), 231-49
'House Names, Shop Signs and Social Organization in Western European Cities, 1500-1900', Urban History, 21 (1994), 18-46
'Parish politics, Jansenism, and the Paris middle classes in the eighteenth century', French History, 8 (1994), 403-19
'The People of Paris and Their Police in the Eighteenth Century. Reflections on the Introduction of a "Modern" Police Force', European History Quarterly, 24 (1994), 511-35
'The Police of Paris as Enlightened Social Reformers', Eighteenth-Century Life, 16 (1992), 43-59
(with Michael Sonenscher) 'Compagnonnages, Confraternities and Associations of Journeymen in Eighteenth-century Paris', European History Quarterly, 16 (1986), 25-45.

Chapters in books
'Les bourgeois du faubourg Saint-Marcel avant et après la Révolution' in Jean-Pierre Jessenne (ed.), Vers un ordre bourgeois ? Révolution française et changement social (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007), 89-103
'The Party of the philosophes', and 'Making a Better World. Enlightenment and Philanthropy', in Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christa Knellwolf and Iain McCalman (eds), The Enlightenment World (Routledge, 2004).
'Paris', in A. Kors (ed), Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 244-50.
'Reading in Eighteenth-Century Paris', in David Garrioch, Harold Love, Ian Morrison, Brian McMullin and Meredith Sherlock (eds), The Culture of the Book. Essays from two hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1999), pp. 288-299
'Insults in eighteenth-century Paris', in P. Burke and R. Porter (eds.),Essays in the Social History of Language (Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 104-19

Areas of Research & Supervision

European social history, 1600 - 1850; European urban history, 1600 - 1900; Eighteenth-century Europe; Enlightenment; French Revolution.

Teaching

HSY1111 - Nations at War: Napoleon to Gallipoli
HSY2950/3950 - Slavery, Freedom and Revolution: the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
HSY4180 - Images of the Natural World: Issues in Environmental History
HYM4/5180 - Images of the Natural World: Issues in Environmental History
HSY4590 - Imagining Europe
HYM4/5590 - Imagining Europe
HSY4740/5740 - The French Revolution

VCE

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