Women's Studies Department Faculty

LISA TIERSTEN

Professor of History

Ph.D. Yale University, 1991 Email: lt95@columbia.edu Phone: 212.854.4733 Office Address: 422A Lehman Hall To view personal webpage, click here.

Research and Teaching Interests

Modern European Cultural History; Modern France; Consumer Culture;
Comparative Colonialisms; Gender History; Feminist Theory

Publications:

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.

Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Culture in Fin-de-Siècle France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

“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,” II 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).

Review of Woodruff D. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800 (New York: Routledge, 2002), The Journal of Social History, forthcoming.

Review of Victoria E. Thompson, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Nineteenth-Century French Studies, forthcoming.

Review of Amy Trubek, Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), Journal of Modern History, 27:3 (2002).

Works in Progress:

Sentimental Modernity: Bankruptcy and Social Trust in Modern France (book project).

The Child, the Family, and the State: Explaining Children’s Rights Regime Variation in Sweden, France, and the U. (co-authored book project, with Lars Trägårdh; contract with Berghahn Books)

Women's Studies Teaching:

HIS BC 3323: European Women in the Age of Revolution (Spring 2005, Spring 2002)

WS BC 3112: Major Texts of the Feminist Tradition II: De Beauvoir to Present (Spring 1996, Fall 2000, Fall 2001)

Activist Interests