Robert Emmet Kennedy, Jr. papers

Dr. Robert Emmet Kennedy, Jr. was a professor (Emeritus as of 2011) of European History at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kennedy received his Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from Brandeis in French history. Before coming to GW in 1973, he taught at Kent State University and at the University of Toulouse in France. His teaching and publications have focused on the History of France, especially the French Revolution, and European intellectual history. He has published five books, among them, "A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of 'Ideology'" (American Philosophical Society, 1978) and "A Cultural History of the French Revolution" (Yale, 1989), "Secularism and its opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) and co-authored "Theatre, Opera and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris" (Greenwood, 1996) and co-edited The Shaping of Modern France: Writings on French History since 1715 Introd. by Crane Brinton (MacMillan, 1969). He is a former fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow in 1983-84. He was nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and was listed in the New York Times Book Review’s Editors’ Choices in July, 1989 for his Cultural History of the French Revolution. He was a nominee for the G.W.Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching in 1997 and served several years as a consultant to the Library of Congress’ Kluge Prize Committee. Dr. Kennedy received the 1977-78 ACLS Fellowship and the Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2008.