Carol E. Harrison

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Carol E. Harrison
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SpouseTom Brown
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Thesis The esprit d'association and the French bourgeoisie: voluntary societies in eastern France, 1830-1870 (1993)
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Carol Elizabeth Harrison is an American historian who has written on the history of France and the Catholic Church, including the books The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France (1999) and Romantic Catholics (2014). A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she has worked as a history professor at Auburn University, Kent State University, and the University of South Carolina.

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Carol Elizabeth Harrison, [1] a native of Baton Rouge, [2] was born to Kay and Doug Harrison. [3] She attended Baton Rouge Magnet High School, where she was a state French club quiz bee champion. [4] [5] She later studied at Louisiana State University, obtaining her BA in 1990. [6] In 1989, she was elected Louisiana's 1990 Rhodes Scholar, as well as LSU's first woman Rhodes Scholar. [7] [2]

Now a Rhodes Scholar, Harrison obtained her PhD at the University of Oxford in 1993; [6] her doctoral dissertation was titled The esprit d'association and the French bourgeoisie: voluntary societies in eastern France, 1830-1870. [8] The same year, she became an assistant professor in history at Auburn University, and in 1997 she moved to Kent State University with that same title. [6] After being promoted to associate professor in 2001, she moved to the University of South Carolina in 2002 and was promoted to professor in 2013. [6]

Harrison authored the books The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France (1999) and Romantic Catholics (2014), and she has also written several scholarly journal articles on the history of France and Catholic Church. [6] In 2009, she and Ann Johnson co-edited the volume National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology, adapted from an Osiris special issue named Science and National Identity. [9] [10] She served as a co-editor of the journals Proceedings of the Western Society for French History from 2004 to 2007 and French Historical Studies from 2014 to 2018. [6] In 2014, she wrote a New York Times Opinionator article on the Édouard René de Laboulaye novel Paris in America. [11]

In 2024, Harrison was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion [12] and a Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies, [13] both of which will fund research for A Women’s History of Vatican I, her book on the First Vatican Council. [14]

Harrison married Tom Brown while working on Romantic Catholics. [3] John Beall Jr, who was the first Spirit Rider at Oklahoma State University, was his first cousin once removed on her mother's side. [15] [16]

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  2. 1 2 "32 Made Rhodes Scholars". The Daily Progress. Associated Press. December 11, 1989. p. A3 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 Harrison, Carol E. (2014). Romantic Catholics. Cornell University Press. p. iii.
  4. ↑ "French Clubs Meet". The Crowley Post-Signal. December 20, 1984. p. 3A – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Fricassee. Baton Rouge High School. 1986. p. 38 – via East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Harrison, Carol E. "CV of Carol E. Harrison". Academia.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
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  8. ↑ Harrison, Carol Elizabeth. The esprit d'association and the French bourgeoisie: voluntary societies in eastern France, 1830-1870 (PhD thesis). Oxford University. OCLC   863417268.
  9. 1 2 Gross, Matthias (2011). "National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 33 (2): 262–264. ISSN   0391-9714. JSTOR   23335121.
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  11. ↑ Harrison, Carol E. (April 1, 2014). "Dr. Lefebvre's American Dream". Opinionator. The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
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