Faculty

John Monroe

Associate Professor

617 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-4634
Email: jmonroe@iastate.edu

Education
PhD. Yale University
 
Dissertation - "Evidence of Things not Seen: Spiritism, Occultism and the Search for a Modern Faith in France, 1853-1925," which received Yale's Theron Rockwell Field Prize in June 2002
 
Research and Teaching Interests
France 1789 to the Present
European Intellectual and Cultural History
Religion in Modern Europe
History of Psychology
 
Selected Publications
"Cartes de Visite from the Other World: Spiritism and the Discourse of Laicisme in the Early Third Republic," French Historical Studies 26:1 (Winter 2003).
 
"Making the Seance 'Serious': Tables Tournantes and Second Empire Bourgeois Culture, 1853-1861," History of Religions, 38 (Feb. 1999).
 
Courses Taught
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History
History of France from the Ancien Regime to the Present
Western Civilization