Professor Alan J. Williams
France
B-108 Tribble Hall; 758-5553
e-mail: awill@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A., Stanford University
M.Phil. and Ph.D., Yale University

Courses offered:

Hst 101: Western Civilization to 1700;
Hst 102: Europe and the World in the Modern Era;
Hst 103: World Civilizations to 1500;
Hst 104: World Civilizations since 1500
Hst 309: Europe: From Renaissance to Revolution;
Hst 317: French Revolution and Napoleon;
Hst 321: France to 1774;
Hst 322: France Since 1815.

Professional and research interests: 18th-century France, particularly Paris; the impact of war and revolution on individual experience and concepts of self; the French Revolution

Selected Publications:

"Patterns of Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Parisian Families," Journal of Family History, 18 (1993)

"Problems in Legal History: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 14 (1987)

The Police of Paris, 1718-1789. Louisiana State University Press, 1979

"Domestic Espionage and the Myth of Police Omniscience Under the Old Regime," Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, (1979):253-60.

"Patterns of Deviance in 18th-Century Paris," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 6 (1978):179-87.