Victoria E. Thompson's research has focused primarily on Paris, France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her work combines cultural and social history approaches, focusing on the interplay between representation and experience. Her research interests include the history of urban space, travel and travel writing, the history of women, gender and sexuality, political culture, and the role of emotion in the formation of collective and individual identities.
She is the author of The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and, with Rachel G. Fuchs, Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004). She edited and contributed to The Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2018). She has published articles and book chapters on colonial Algeria, British travelers in revolutionary Paris, Parisian travel guides and urban monuments, and revolutionary spaces and memory. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Inventing Public Space: Sentiment and Citizenship in Paris, 1748-1789.
Thompson has taught a variety of courses, both online and onground, on European and French history and on cultural history. Undergraduate courses include courses on European Women's History, the History of Sexuality, French Imperialism, the French Revolution, European travel and European counter-cultures. On the graduate level she has developed courses on European Cultural History, History and Memory and Space and Place.
She has served in leadership positions as president of the Society for French Historical Studies, co-president of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and as co-chair of the Advanced Placement European History Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee. She has served on prize committees for the American Historical Association and the Society for French Historical Studies, on the editorial board of French Historical Studies and on selection committees for the Fulbright Fellowshiop and the International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC).
Ph.D. History, University of Pennsylvania 1993
B.A. History, University of California, Berkeley 1987
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 364 | Sex & Society in Mod Europe |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 644 | Area Studies in History |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 427 | French Revolut/Napoleonic Era |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 104 | Modern Europe: French Rev-EU |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 642 | European History |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 592 | Research |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 640 | Historical Methods |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 642 | European History |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 304 | Studies in European History |
HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Recent Awards and Fellowships
Fellow, Provost’s Humanities Fellows Academy, Arizona State University, 2015
Fellow, Institute for Humanities Research, for theme “Affect and Reason,” Arizona State University, 2014-2015
Society for French Historical Studies Koren Prize Honorable Mention for best article published in 2012 for “The Creation, Destruction, and Recreation of Henri IV: Seeing Popular Sovereignty in the State of a King,” in History & Memory, awarded April 2013.
Wilcox Faculty Research Award, School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, awarded September 2012.
American Historical Association Society for French Historical Studies
History Graduate Faculty
Select Service Appointments Include:
SHPRS Personnel committee, ASU, 2016-2019
Member, Discovery France Advisory Committee, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 2016-2017
Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Humanities Research, ASU, 2015-2016
Member, CLAS Quality of Instruction Committee, ASU, 2014-2016
Co-Chair, Advanced Placement (AP®) European History Test Development Committee, The College Board, 2013-2016
Graduate Committee, SHPRS, ASU, 2013-2016
Head of History Faculty, SHPRS, ASU 2014-2015
Co-Chair, Advanced Placement (AP®) European History Curriculum Development & Assessment Committee, The College Board, 2010-2013; Committee Member 2008-2010
Executive Board Member, Faculty Women’s Association, 2009-2012; 2013-14
Director of Graduate Studies for History, SHPRS, ASU, 2010-2012
Social Science Research Council, Selection Committee for the International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, 2009-2011
President, Society for French Historical Studies, 2009-2010
Quiz Master, State Finals, Arizona Academic Decathlon, March 2010
Faculty Women’s Association Leadership Project, ASU, Spring 2008
Editorial Board, French Historical Studies, 2004-2007
Graduate Council, ASU, 2004-2008
Carnegie Initiative Committee, History Department, ASU, 2003-2005
Governing Council, The Western Society for French History, 2000 –2003