William M. Reddy
| Title: | Chair, of History and William T. Laprade Professor of History; Professor of Cultural Anthropology |
| Office Location: | 314 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-2497 |
| Email Address: | wmr@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/%7Ewmr/ |
Education
- PhD University of Chicago, 1974
Research Interests
New book-- The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in fall 2012). Current research projects concern: (1) the comparative history of romantic love, (2) emotions and family life in France (1750-1850), (3) the history and cultural variability of emotions. (4) Methodological interests include theories of culture, cognitive psychology, interpretive method. Recent and upcoming keynote talks at international conferences:
"Emotions, Health and Wellbeing," London, 10-12 September 2012, sponsored by The British Society for the Social History of Medicine (& held in conjunction with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health), Colloque international - L’EMOTION: DE L’ESPACE PRIVE A L’ESPACE PUBLIC XIXe-XXIe SIECLES, Paris, 11-13 avril 2012. Cosponsors: - CHCSC (Université de Versailles-St-Quentin en Yvelines), HAR (Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense) CARISM/Institut Français de Presse (Université Panthéon-Assas) Laboratoire Identités-Cultures-Territoires (Université Paris Diderot-Paris7) CRHEC (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne). CHEP 2011 Istanbul "Emotions East and West," İstanbul, September 29- October 1, 2011. "Learning to Feel: Emotions Beyond Nature versus Nurture,"Jerusalem, April 10-14, 2011; joint conference of The Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, in cooperation with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University. "Science and the Emotions: Transnational Emotional Cultures in the United States and Western Europe after 1945," San Diego, February 24-26, 2011, IICAS, UC San Diego.
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Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2004-05
- Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-2005
- John Snell Memorial Lecture, delivered November 19, 1999, Department of History, University of North Carolina.
- Professeur invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 1997.
- Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1995-96
- Directeur d’études associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, November 1987
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1987-88
- Fulbright Fellow, 1987-88
- Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 1983-84
- Visiting Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, West Germany, July-August 1982
- Visiting Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, West Germany, June-July 1980,
- Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-80
- Research Training Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (concurrently, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University), 1976-77
- Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1975-76
- University Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1969-73
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago, 1969
Representative Publications
- W. M. Reddy. The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- W.M. Reddy. The Invisible Code: Honor and Sentiment in Postrevolutionary France, 1815-1848. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997.
- W.M. Reddy. Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historial Understanding. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- W.M. Reddy. The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.