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Suzanne L. Marchand

Department of History

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

(225) 388-4454 (office)

(225) 756-0815 (home)

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Education:

1984 BA UC Berkeley, History, Highest Honors

1985 MA University of Chicago

1992 PH.D. University of Chicago

Career:

1991 Instructor, University of Chicago

1992 Assistant Professor, Princeton University

1998 Associate Professor, Princeton University

1999 Associate Professor, Louisiana State University

2009 Professor, Louisiana State University

2014 LSU Systems Boyd Professor, LSU

Books and Edited Books:

German Freedom and the Greek Ideal, by William J. McGrath, ed. Celia Applegate, Stephanie Frontz, and Suzanne Marchand (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).

Many Europes: Choice, Chance and Conflict in Western Civilization (McGraw Hill, 2013) (one of three authors).

German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race and Scholarship (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Winner of the George Mosse Prize for Cultural and Intellectual History, 2009; selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books, 2010.

Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany,1750-1970 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).

Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas, eds. Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld (Baton Rouge; LSU Press, 2004).

Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence, eds. Suzanne Marchand and Elizabeth Lunbeck (Brussels: Brepols Publishers, 1997).

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002) [one of seven authors] (second edition, 2008; third edition 2010; fourth edition 2014).

Forthcoming Publications:

“Die Würdigung der Kunst der Anderen: Josef Strzygowski und die österreichischen Ursprünge der ausser-europäischen Kunstgeschichte,” in Karl Kreierer, ed., Netzwerke der Altertumswissenschaftler (Vienna, 2017).

“The ‘Orient’ and ‘Us’: Making Ancient Oriental Studies Relevant During the Nazi Regime,” in Bernard Levison and Robert Ericksen, eds. The Betrayal of the Humanities (Indiana University Press, 2017).

“Crossing the Great Divides: Hans Aarsleff’s Lessons for Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Historians,” forthcoming, History of European Ideas, 2016.

“Ancient History in the Age of the Archive,” in Science in the Archives: Past, Presents, Futures, ed. Lorraine Daston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Participant in “Historicism: A Forum,” in German History (fall 2016).

“On Racial Thinking and the Problem of ‘Oriental’ Prehistory,” in Amos Morris-Reich, ed., Ideas of Race in the Humanities (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017).

Chapters in books, articles:

“Georg Ebers, Sympathetic Egyptologist,” in Festschrift for Anthony Grafton, eds. Ann Blair and Anja-Silva Goering (2016).

“Enlightened Conversations: The Career and Contributions of Anthony J. LaVopa,” Modern Intellectual History, in Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 2 (2016): 1-16.

Dating Zarathustra: The Problem of Persian Prehistory, 1700-1900,” in Erudition and the Republic of Letters 1 (2016): 203-245.

“Appreciating the Art of Others: Joseph Strzygowski and the Austrian Origins of Non-Western Art History,” in Magdalena Dglosz and Pieter O. Scholz, eds., Von Biala nach Wien: Josef Strzygowski und die Kulturwissenschaften (Vienna, 2015).

“Der deutsche Orientalismus im Zeitalter der Kolonialreiche,” in Judith Raum, Wirtschaft und Kunst in der Ära der Baghdadbahn (2015).

“The Dialetics of the Antiquities Rush,” in Pour une histoire d’archéologie XVIII siècle – 1945. Hommage de ses collèges et amis à Éve Gran-Aymerich, Annick Fennick and Natacha Lubtchansky, eds. (Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2015):

“Central Europe,” in Michael Saler, ed. The Fin de Siècle World (London: Routlege, 2015), 131-149.

“Where does History Begin? J. G. Herder and the Problem of Near Eastern Chronology in the Age of Enlightenment,” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 47, no. 2 (2014): 157-75.

“Editors’ Introduction,” (with Celia Applegate) in German Freedom and the Greek Ideal, by William J. McGrath, ed. Celia Applegate, Stephanie Frontz, and Suzanne Marchand (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).

“Race and Religion in the Novels of Georg Ebers,” in Markus Messling and Ottmar Ette (eds.), Wort, Macht, Stamm: Rassismus und Determinismus in der Philologie (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013): 211-26.

“Has the History of the Disciplines Had its Day?” in Intellectual History Today, eds. Darrin McMahon and Samuel Moyn (2013).

“Philhellenism and Orientalism in Germany,” in Lychnos (Lärdomhistoriska samfundets

Årsbok; Journal of the Swedish History of Science Society) (2012): 167-81.

“The View from the Land: Austrian Art Historians and the Interpretation of Croatian Art,” in Portable Archaeology, ed. Alina Payne (Brill, 2013).

“Oriental Wisdom in an Era of Western Despair: Orientalism in 1920s Central Europe,”

in Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy, ed. Peter Gordon (Princeton University Press, 2013): 341-60.

“A Brief History of Accountability in Higher Education,” (with James Stoner) in Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 92, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 16-18.

“L’amité Germano-Turque et ses Conséquences,” in L’Orientalisme, les Orientalistes et L’Empire Ottoman de la fin du XVIIIe a la fin du XXe Siècle, ed. S. Basch et al (Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2011): 173-185.

“La cassure du continent humaniste: une histoire géologique de la philologie allemande,” in La Philologie allemande, figures de pensée, Revue Germanique Internationale, vol. 14 (2011): 225-237.

“Ignác Goldziher et l’orientalisme en XIXeme siècle en Europe centrale,” trans. Camille Joseph, in Céline Trautmann-Waller, ed., Ignác Goldziher (Paris, 2011): 89-113.

“Arnold Böcklin und die Krise des Neoklassizimus in Deutschland, in Eva Koczizsky,

ed., Ruinen in der Moderne: Archaeologie und die Kunste (Bonn, Reimer Verlag, 2010): 161-72.

“La dialéctica en la fiebre de los hallazgos arqueológicos,” (“The Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush,”) in Istor: Revista di historia 10, nr. 43 (2010).

“Orientalistik and Popular Orientalism in Fin de Siècle Germany,” in After One Hundred Years: The 1910 Exhibition ‘Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst’ Reconsidered, eds. Andrea Lermer and Avinoam Shalem (Leiden, 2010): 17-36.

“On Orientalism and Iconoclasm: German Scholarship’s Challenge to the Saidian Model,” in Cosmopolitan Thought Zones, ed. Kris Manjapra and Sugata Bose (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 260-83.

“What Did the Greeks owe the Orient? The Question We Can’t Stop Asking (Even Though we Can’t Answer it)” in Archaeological Dialogues 17, no. 1 (2010): 117-40.

“What the Greek Model Can, and Cannot Do for the Modern State: The German Perspective,” in Roderick Beaton, ed. The Making of Modern Greece (Ashgate Press, 2009): 33-42.

“Vokietijos orientalizmas ir Vakaru nuosmukis” in Rytai-Vakarai:Komparatyvistines studijos (East-West:Comparative studies) VI, ed. KFMI, Vilnius, 2007, p. 125-131. {Translation into Lithuanian of “German Orientalism and the Decline of the West”)

“Popularizing the Orient,” in Intellectual History Review 17, no. 2 (July 2007): 175-202.

“The Long Nineteenth Century: A Forum,” in German History, spring 2008.

“From Antiquarian to Archaeologist? Adolf Furtwangler and the Problem of ‘Modern Classical Archaeology,” in Peter N. Miller, ed., Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations

of the Modern Cultural Sciences (Toronto, 2007): 248-85.

“Nazism, ‘Orientalism,’ and Humanism,” in Anson Rabinbach, ed., Nazism and the Humanities (Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2007), pp. 267-305.

“Philhellenismus und ‘Furor orientalis,’ [German] in Ludmila Hanisch, ed., Der Orient in akademischer Optik: Beiträge zur Genese einer Wissenschaftsdiszipline, Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, vol. 20 (2006): 31-42.

“Philhellénisme et orientalisme en Allemagne,” in Philhellénismes et transferts culturels dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle (Revue Germanique Internationale, 1-2 (2005): 9-22.

“Philhellenism and the Furor Orientalis,” Modern Intellectual History, 1, no. 3 (November 2004): 331-358.

“Arnold Böcklin and the Problem of German Modernism,” in Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, eds., Germany at the Fin de Siecle: Culture, Politics and Ideas (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2004): 129-166.

“Becoming Greek: Johann Joachim Winckelmann is Murdered in Trieste,” in David Wellbery, ed., A New History of German Literature (Cambridge, Mass, 2004): 376-81.

“Embarrassed by the Nineteenth Century,” in Bernard Cook et al eds., Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2002 (Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 2004): 1-16.

“From Liberalism to Neoromanticism: Albrecht Dieterich, Richard Reitzenstein and the Religious Turn in Fin de Siecle German Classical Studies,” in Out of Arcadia (British Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, 79, 2003), eds. Martin Ruehl and Ingo Gildenhard (London, 2003): 129-60.

“Arnold Böcklin and the End of Neoclassicism,” in The Impact of the Greek Classics on National and European Identities, eds. Pim den Boer and Eric Moormann, Studies of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (Amsterdam: Gieben Publishers, October 2002).

"The Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology," in Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire, eds. Glenn Penny and Matti Bunzl (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003): 283-316.

“Adolf Furtwängler in Olympia,” in Olympia 1875-2000: 125 Jahre deutsche Ausgrabungen, ed. Helmut Kyreleis (Mainz, 2002): 147-162.

Comment on Philip L. Kohl and Perez Gollan, “Religion, Politics, and Prehistory: The Lingering Legacy of Oswald Menghin,” in Current Anthropology 43, number 4 (Aug-Oct. 2002): 578-579.

"The Rhetoric of Artifacts and the Decline of Classical Humanism: The Case of Josef Strzygowski," History and Theory, Beiheft 33 (Dec. 1994):106-30.

"Foucault, die moderne Individualität und die Geschichte der humanistischen Bildung," in Geschichte zwischen Kultur und Gesellschaft: Beiträge zur Theoriedebatte, eds. Thomas Mergel and Thomas Welskopp (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1997): 323-48.

"Leo Frobenius and the Revolt against the West," The Journal of Contemporary History 32, no. 2 (April 1997):153-170.

"Martin Bernal and His Critics" (co-authored with Anthony Grafton), Arion (Sept. 1997): 1-35.

"Nazi Culture: Banality or Barbarism?" The Journal of Modern History (March 1998):108-118.

"Attitude and Institutions" Current Anthropology (February 1998): 33-34.

"Orientalism as Kulturpolitik: German Archaeology and Cultural Imperialism in Asia Minor," in Volksgeist as Method and Ethic, The History of Anthropology, vol. 8, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr. (Madison, 1996): 298-336.

"Problems and Prospects for Intellectual History," New German Critique 65 (Spring/Summer 1995):87-96.

"Professionalizing the Senses: Art and Music History in Vienna, 1890-1920," Austrian History Yearbook 21 (1985):23-57.

"The Excavations at Olympia: An Episode in German-Greek Cultural Relations," in Greek Society in the Making, 1863-1913, ed. Philip Carabott (London, 1997):73-85.

"The Ancients and the Moderns in German Museums," in Museums and Memory ed. Susan Crane (Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 179-199.

"The End of Egyptomania," in Wilfried Seipel, ed., Ägyptomanie: Europäische Ägyptenimagination von der Antike bis heute (Vienna, 2002): 125-134.

“German Orientalism and the Decline of the West,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 2001.

"The Turfan Expeditions: Classicism, Orientalism, Imperialism," in Zeitschrift der Koldewey Gesellschaft Koldewey Gesellschaft: Bericht über die 40. Tagung für Ausgrabungs-wissenschaft und Bauforschung (May 1998): 31-40.

“Jacob Burckhardt and the Philhellenism of the Future,” in Arion (Winter 2001): 158-170.

Papers Presented:

I have given academic papers at numerous meetings of the American Historical Association and German Studies Association, as well as at the Council for European Studies Conference, Southern Historical Association Conference, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, American Philosophical Society, German History Society (London), and Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.

I have participated in smaller conferences at the following universities or centers: Cambridge University (UK), Paris, Musée D’Orsay, University of Leiden (Netherlands), Stanford University, Dartmouth College, University of Liverpool, Bucerius Center, University of Haifa (Israel), University of Potsdam, Radcliffe College, College de France/EHESS, Paris; University of London; Center for European Studies, Harvard; Princeton University; Clark Center, UCLA; Munk Center, University of Toronto; UC Irvine; Dutch School of Archaeology, Athens; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Getty Research Center; Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin; Elmau Conference Center (Bavaria); University of North Carolina; German Historical Institute, Washington D. C.; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; Collegium Budapest; Columbia University; University of Heidelberg; University of Potsdam; and the Finnish Institute in Berlin, Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut (Teheran Branch and Main Branch), Berlin.

I have been invited to give solo talks at the following universities: Yale University, University of Leiden, University of California, Davis, University of Delaware, University of Southampton, Cambridge University, University of Texas, Austin, University of Heidelberg, University of Michigan, University of Göttingen, University of Bochum, Free University of Berlin, University of Heidelberg, University of Bielefeld, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Wisconsin, University of Arizona, Wellesley College, Cornell University, University of Southern California, University of Michigan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, University of Florida, Oregon State University.