Dr. Michael Persell
Professor Emeritus

 E-Mail: mpersell@csusb.edu
Phone: (909) 537-5529
Fax: (909) 537-7645

Education

B.A. 1962, University Of California, Santa Barbara 
M.A. 1963, Stanford University 
Ph. D. 1969, Stanford University

Areas of Specialization

Modern European History
Modern France
World Civilizations
Historiography
History of Science
European Intellectual History

Courses Offered

World Civilizations II
World Civilizations III
Modern Europe, 1815 - Present
Hitler's Europe
Study of History
Proseminar in Historiography

Grants and Fellowships

French Government Research Grant 1966-67
American Philosophical Society 1973 
Hoover Institution Research Grant 1973 
American Philosophical Society 1978 
California State Faculty Development Grant 1984 
Dupont Museum and Library Grant 1985 
Fulbright Hayes Fellowship to Hungary 1990 
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar 1994
California State Faculty Development Grant 1999-2000

Publications

The French Colonial Lobby, 1889-1938

"Natural Selection and the Triumph of Neo-Lamarckism of France, 1880-1910: The Biological Theories of Felix Le Dantec" Proceedings of the Seventeenth European Studies Conference 

"The Revival of Buffon in the Early Third Republic" Biography:An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

"Jean de Lanessan and the French Positivist School of Criminal Reform" Criminal Justice Review 

"New Archival Sources on the Union Coloniale Francaise and the Federation Intercoloniale," French Colonial Studies 

The Evolution Controversy in France: The Rise and Decline of Neo-Lamarckism, 1870-1920

Current Research
Interests
and Projects

"Social Fiction and the British Suffragette Movement: W. L. George and his Literary Circle"