Kennedy, Robert Emmet Dr., Jr.

Dr. Robert Emmet Kennedy, Jr. is a professor of European History at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. Dr. Kennedy received his Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from Brandeis in French history. Before coming to GW in 1973, he taught at Kent State University and at the University of Toulouse in France. His teaching and publications have focused on the History of France, especially the French Revolution, and European intellectual history. He has published four books, among them, A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of "Ideology" (American Philosophical Society, 1978) and A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Yale, 1989) and co-authored Theatre, Opera and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris (Greenwood, 1996). He is a former fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow in 1983-84. He was nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and was listed in the New York Times Book Reviews Editors Choices in July, 1989 for his Cultural History of the French Revolution. He was a nominee for the G.W.Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching in 1997 and served several years as a consultant to the Library of Congress Kluge Prize Committee.