Spring 2008:
HIST 441.001
Research Seminar in Modern European History
EUST 400
Fall 2008:
HIST 242.001
History of Modern France
Crossings Frontiers: Culture, Language & Bilingualism; Peter Pelham & Eric Widmer, editors "Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Frontiers: Some Reflections from a Historian on the Recent European Past" Author: William Olejniczak (Deerfield Academy Press, 2004): 25-39.
Contact:
William Olejniczak, Chairman, Associate Professor of History and Director of the European Studies Program
Email: olejniczakb@cofc.edu
Office: Maybank 203A
Phone: 953-5930
Office Hours: by appt.
Courses in area of Specialization:
Industrial Revolution
The Age of Englightenment and Revolution
Contemporary Europe: 1945 to Present
The Social and Cultural History of Pre-Industrial Europe
Enlightenment and the French Revolution
World War II
History of Modern France
European Studies EUST 400
Background:
WILLIAM OLEJNICZAK (France, European Social and Cultural) received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1983. He came to the College of Charleston in 1987 and has taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Versailles/Saint-Quentin in France. He has published in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of Policy History and is working on a comparative social and cultural study of the able-bodied poor in France and England from 1660-1840 and a survey of the Enlightenment, Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras. He has taught courses on the Enlightenment, Revolutionary and French Revolution, modern Europe labor history, 19th and 20th century France, and is developing interests in recent European history and the European Union. He served as director of the M.A. Program from 1994-1998. He is Director of the European Studies Program at the College of Charleston and regularly conducts study abroad programs
International Bi-Lateral Programs:
France - University of Versailles
The Abbey Program- a study abroad program located in the French Loire Valley, Pontlevoy France for more information contact B. Olejniczak.
