France, 1650-1850; French Revolution; cultural history, history and film

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Princeton 1990

Office: 318 LeConte
Office Hours: By appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2484

lmason@uga.edu

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Laura Mason is the author of Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Revolutionary Politics, 1787-1799 (Cornell U Press, 1996) and co-editor of The French Revolution: A Document Collection (Houghton Mifflin, 1999). She is currently working on a book-length project on the trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the legal culture of the Directory.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

"Apres la conjuration: le Directoire, la presse, et l'Affaire des Egaux," Annales historiques de la Révolution francaise #354 (Dec. 2008)

"Never Was a Plot So Holy: Gracchus Babeuf and the End of the French Revolution," in Conspiracy in the French Revolution, ed. Thomas Kaiser, Marisa Linton, Peter Campbell (Manchester University Press, 2007)

The French Revolution: A Document Collection (Houghton-Mifflin, 1998)

Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Revolutionary Politics, 1787-1799 (Cornell, 1996) [More Info]

Courses Taught

HIST4300: Studies in European History [Syllabus]

HIST4391: France, Revolution and Empire [Syllabus]

HIST4750: History and Film [Syllabus]

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST8860: Seminar in History [Syllabus]

MA Theses Supervised

Forbes, Amy Wiese, "Royalist Satire In the French Revoution 1789-1790" (1992)