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Lisa S. Tiersten
Professor

Office: 422A Lehman Hall Phone: 212-854-4733
Email: lt95@columbia.edu

Extended CV

 

    Course Offerings:
    Introduction to European History: French Revolution to the Present
    Colonial Encounters
    European Women in the Age of Revolution
    Constructing the Middle Classes:  The Comparative History of the Bourgeoisie in 19th Century Europe
    Consumer Culture in Modern Europe
    Major Feminist Tradition II: De Beauvoir to Present
    The Politics of Leisure in Modern Europe

    Education:

    B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979
    Ph.D. Yale University, 1991

    Books:

    Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Culture in Fin-de-Siècle France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

    Textbooks:

    The Western Experience, 10th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, forthcoming,
    2009). Co-author with Mortimer Chambers, Barbara Hanawalt, Theodore Raab, Isser Woloch.

     The Western Experience, 9th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006). Co-author with Mortimer Chambers, Barbara Hanawalt, Theodore Raab, Isser Woloch.

    Other Publications:

    “Redefining the Bourgeoisie: Recent Literature on Consumer Culture in Western Europe,” Radical History Review, vol. 57 (Fall 1993): 116-159.

    “Consumer Culture and the European Bourgeoisie,” Il Bollettino del diciannovesimo secolo (Spring 1997) (reprint of article first published in Radical History Review).

     “Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,” Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939, eds. Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain (Ashcroft Press, 1999).

    “The Chic Interior and the Feminine Modern: Home Decorating as High Art in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,” Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, ed. Christopher Reed (Thames and Hudson, 1996).

    Academic and Professional Honors:

    Faculty Research Grant, 2008
    Mellon SIRT Grant, 2007
    Faculty Research Grant, 2006
    Faculty Research Grant, 2005
    Mellon Foundation Post-Tenure Faculty Grant, 2003-2004
    Mellon Foundation Short-term Professional Development Grant, 2003
    Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College, 2003
    Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College, 2001
    Gilder Foundation Grant, 1999-2001
    Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College, 1996
    Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996
    Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College, 1994
    Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992-93
    French Historical Studies Society, Bicentennial Research Fellowship, 1992            NEH, Travel to Collections Award, 1992
    Faculty Research Award, Wellesley College, 1992
    Bourse Chateaubriand (French Government Research Fellowship), 1986-87          Ray Murphy Fellowship, Yale University, 1985-86
    Council for European Studies Pre-dissertation Grant, 1985
    Phi Beta Kappa, 1979
    Harold Carey Award in History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979

     

 

Barnard College o Columbia University o 2004