Greg Shaya
Henry J. and Laura H. Copeland Professor of European History; Global Media & Digital Studies;
Biography
Courses Taught
- FYS: The Witness in History
- Introduction to History: Crime & Punishment in Historical Perspective
- The Making of the Contemporary World (team-taught)
- The Craft of History: The History of News
- 脗 History Workshop: Historical Documentary Filmmaking
- Europe, 1890-1945: The Experience of History
- 脗 Europe, 1945 to the Present: Film and History
- Modern France: Revolution, War, and Empire
- History Colloquium: The World in 1900, A Global History
- History Colloquium: War and Memory in Contemporary Europe
- TREK Documentary Filmmaking in Buenos Aires
Selected Publications & Presentations
- "The Unruly Emotions of the Execution Crowd and its Critics in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century France." Cultural History (April 2019)
- "The Myth of the Fourth Estate." Lapham's Quarterly (2012)
- "How to Make an Anarchist-Terrorist: An Essay on the Political Imaginary in Fin-de-Si膫篓cle France." Journal of Social History脗 (Winter 2010)
- "The Mass Public in France." The Crowds Project, directed by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Laboratory (2005)
- "The Fl膫藰neur, the Badaud, and the Making of a Mass Public in France, circa 1860-1910," American Historical Review脗 (February 2004)
Professional Affiliations
- American Historical Association
- Society for French Historical Studies
- Soci膫艩t膫艩 pour l'histoire des m膫艩dias
- International Society for Cultural History
- International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
- Urban History Association
- Amis de l'Acad膫艩mie Tunisienne des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Arts "Be膫呕t al-Hikma"
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