Carol E. Harrison

• History of France
• History of the Catholic Church

Carol E. Harrison
Occupation	Historian
Spouse	Tom Brown
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2024) Rome Prize (2024)
Academic background
Alma mater	Louisiana State University University of Oxford
Thesis	The esprit d'association and the French bourgeoisie: voluntary societies in eastern France, 1830-1870 (1993)
Institutions	Auburn University Kent State University University of South Carolina

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.

Biography

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]}

Bibliography

• The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France (1999) ^{[17] [18]}
• (ed. with Ann Johnson) National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology (2009) ^[9]
• Romantic Catholics (2014) ^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23]}

References

1. Merriman, John M.; Winter, J. M., eds. (2006). Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. Vol. 1. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 122. ISBN   978-0-684-31360-3. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
2. "32 Made Rhodes Scholars". The Daily Progress. Associated Press. December 11, 1989. p. A3 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Harrison, Carol E. (2014). Romantic Catholics. Cornell University Press. p. iii. ISBN   978-0-8014-7058-5.
4. "French Clubs Meet". The Crowley Post-Signal. December 20, 1984. p. 3A. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved December 22, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
5. Fricassee. Baton Rouge High School. 1986. p. 38 – via East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
6. Harrison, Carol E. "CV of Carol E. Harrison". Academia.edu. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
7. "La. Rhodes Scholar to be teacher". The Town Talk. December 13, 1994. p. A-2 – via Newspapers.com.
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. 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.
10. "Osiris | Vol 24, No 1". The University of Chicago Press Journals. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
11. Harrison, Carol E. (April 1, 2014). "Dr. Lefebvre's American Dream". Opinionator. The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
12. "Carol Harrison". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
13. "Announcing the 2024–25 Rome Prize Winners" (Press release). American Academy in Rome. April 25, 2024. Archived from the original on December 6, 2024. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
14. Erskine, Laura (April 25, 2024). "Double honor: USC historian lands Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize" (Press release). University of South Carolina. Archived from the original on January 8, 2025. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
15. "Carrie Hazel Beall DuBose". The Gonzales Inquirer. September 16, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
16. "John Marckmann Beall Jr Obituary (2024) - Aubrey, TX - Slay Memorial Funeral Center - Aubrey". Legacy.com. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
17. Sheridan, George J. (2001). "The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation". The Historian. 63 (4): 868–869. ISSN   0018-2370. JSTOR   24450581.
18. Garrioch, David (2000). "The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the uses of Emulation" . The American Historical Review. 105 (3): 1022–1023. doi:10.2307/2651977. ISSN   0002-8762. JSTOR   2651977.
19. Talar, C. J. T. (2016). "Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith". Church History. 85 (1): 202–203. doi:10.1017/S0009640715001651. ISSN   0009-6407. JSTOR   24736191.
20. Stammers, Tom (2016). "Romantic Catholics: France's Post-Revolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith". The English Historical Review. 131 (553): 1548–1550. doi:10.1093/ehr/cew311. ISSN   0013-8266. JSTOR   26364464.
21. Kaufman, Suzanne K. (2015). "Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith". The American Historical Review. 120 (2): 725–726. doi:10.1093/ahr/120.2.725. ISSN   0002-8762. JSTOR   43696851.
22. Ford, Caroline (2015). "Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith". The Catholic Historical Review. 101 (3): 666–668. ISSN   0008-8080. JSTOR   45175570.
23. Milbach, Sylvain (2017). "Romantic Catholics. France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modem Faith". Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine (1954-). 64 (4): 200–202. doi:10.3917/rhmc.644.0200. ISSN   0048-8003. JSTOR   44986704.