Jennifer J. Popiel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
Courses Taught
Origins of the Modern World; French Revolution and Napoleon; Atlantic Commodities; Faith and Reason in Modern Europe; Race, Rights, and Revolution in the Atlantic World; The Early Modern World
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Trinity University
Publications and Media Placements
Books
monographs
Worship Facing Europe: Religious Superiority, Civilization, and Masculinity. (In process)
Heroic Hearts: Sentiment, Saints, and Authority in Modern France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 366 pp (22 illus.)
Rousseau's Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2008. 284 pp (16 illus.) Winner of David Pinkney Prize, 2009.
Textbooks
Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791: Reacting to the Past. 2nd ed. W.W. Norton and Company, 2015. (With Mark Carnes and Gary Kates)
Book Chapters
“Martyred Virgins, Fiery Dragons, and Mass Culture: Sentiment and Authority in Nineteenth-Century
Religious Images” Book chapter forthcoming as a book in the series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.
"Virginité et sacrifice de soi : Philippine Duchesne, Euphrosine Perier et la vocation
religieuse au XlXe siècle, » in Stéphane Gougelmann et François Kerlouegan, Écrire le mariage des lendemains de la Révolution à la Belle Époque: discours, idéologies,
représentations (Publications de l'université de Saint-Étienne, 2017).
Preface to Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (New York, 2004).
Articles
“St. Philomena(’s) Remains: Religion, Sentiment, and Patriarchy Undermined in Post-Revolutionary
France,” part of the Age of Revolutions series: (2020). Open-access and peer reviewed.
“The Revolution and Me” part of the H-France Salon, “What the Revolution Means Today: The French Revolution
Beyond the Academy,” Volume 11 (2019). Open-access and peer-reviewed.
“The Hearth, the Cloister, and Beyond: Religion and the Nineteenth-Century Woman,”
Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 37 (Ann Arbor, MI: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library,
2009): 187-204. Open-access and peer-reviewed.
“Making Mothers: The Maternal Advice Genre and the Domestic Ideal, 1760-1830.” The Journal of Family History, 29 (Fall 2004).
“‘To Repress the Exuberance of Their Characters’: Self-Control and the Definition
of Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century France.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Selected Papers of the 1998
Annual Meeting 26 (Greeley CO: University Press of Colorado, 2000): 258-266.
“Necessary Connections? Catholicism, Feminism, and Contraception.” Essay about the
relationship between feminist theory and the Catholic Church’s position on artificial
contraception. America, November 27, 1999, 22-25.
“‘To Amuse and Instruct’: Freedom, Education, and the Molding of the Child in Modern
France,” in Childhood and Youth: A Universal Odyssey. Annette Richardson, ed. (Edmonton: Kanata Learning Co., 1998): 161-170. Refereed
publication issued in conjunction with the International Child/Youth Conference.
Honors and Awards
- Bicentennial Fellow, Saint Louis University
- Fulbright Research Fellowship (Lyon, France)
- Summer Research Grant in the Humanities, Saint Louis University
- Mellon Research Award
- David Pinkney Prize, French Historical Studies (best book in French History)
- Dean's Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Students
- Provost's Research Award, Saint Louis University
- Millstone Prize for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Paper (WSFH)
- Scholar Access Grant, Center for European Studies (Madison, WI)