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Liana Vardi, Associate Professor
office: Park 582
email: vardi@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-8427

Education: McGill, PhD, 1985


Courses Regularly Taught:
Early Modern Europe
Ancien Regime
Colonialism and European Culture
Nature and the Environment
The Enlightenment
Science and art from the Renaissance to the present
History of Paris
World History in Theory and Practice

Field(s): Early Modern Europe

Hub(s): Knowledge, Culture and Society

Research Interests: France, intellectual life in the eighteenth century, the relationship between the arts and sciences, the perception of nature and of the rural world

Current Research: Economics and culture in the late French Enlightenment

Selected Publications:
Book:

The Land and the Loom, Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800, Duke UP, 1993

Articles:

"Physiocratic Visions", Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, January 2010

"Rewriting the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Economists," American Historical Review, June 2009

"Imagining the Harvest in Early Modern Europe", American Historical Review, December 1996

"Construing the Harvest: Gleaners, Farmers and Officials in Early Modern France, American Historical Review, December 1993

Awards:
The Koren Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies, for the best article in French History, 1994

Fellowships at the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies (1994-5), The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2000-2001)

Last updated: Wednesday, January 28, 2009