Faculty
Jeffrey Houghtby
Assistant Professor
651 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-7266
Email: houghtby@iastate.edu
Education
Ph.D., Emory University
Dissertation
"Les Biens Communaux: Common Land, Property Rights,
and Agrarian Modernization is Early Modern Burgundy, 1550-1789"
Research and Teaching Interests
Early Modern French/European Peasantries
Rural Communities, Property Rights, and Economic Development
Lordship, Rural Grievance, and Litigation
Social, Economic, and Legal History
Scholarly Publications in Progress
Dettes et dépossession des communautés rurales bourguignonnes,
1580-1680
Selling the Commons: Communal Debt and Dispossession in Seventeenth-
Century Burgundy
Presentations
"Peasants, Property Rights, and the French Revolution,"
Iowa State University, Department of History, 2006.
"Traditional Origins of Modernity: Rural Property Rights and
Social Redistribution in Seventeenth-Century Burgundy," James
Allen Vann Seminar, Emory University, 2006.
"Words and Deeds: Languages of Peasant Protest in Eighteenth-Century
Burgundy," Society for French Historical Studies, 2006.
"Royal Absolutism and Land Law: The Evolution of Seigneurial
Triage in Early Seventeenth-Century Burgundy," Society for French
Historical Studies,2002.
"De l'Illinois à la Bourgogne rurale du XVIIème siècle: itinéraire
d'un étudiant américain," Rotary Club Dijon-Est (Dijon, France),
2001, (presented in French).
"Modernization Theories in Eighteenth-Century French Agrarian
History: The Problem of Enclosure," Institute for Historical
Research, University of London, December 2000.
"Structures, Discourses, Consequences: Enclosure Movements in
Eighteenth- Century France," Major Seminar, Emory University,
September 1998.
Courses Taught / In Preparation
History of Early Modern Europe
France in the Age of Kings: The Old Regime, 1550-1789
Violence in Early Modern Europe
Historiography and Research Writing
Survey of Modern European History
European Economic History, 1450-1850
Seminar in Early Modern European Rural History
Professional Activity
Society for French Historical Studies
American Historical Association
Association d'histoire des sociétés rurales
Agricultural History Society
Grants and Fellowships
Fulbright Research Grant to France, 2000-2001
International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science
Research Council, 1999-2000
J. Russell Major Dissertation Award, Emory University, Department
of History, 1999-2000
Dissertation Research Award, Emory University, University Fund for
Internationalization, 1999-2000.
