Victoria E. Thompson

Victoria Elizabeth Thompson received her Ph.D. in French history in 1993 from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Her work combines cultural and social history approaches, focusing on the interplay between representation and experience. Her research has focused primarily on France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and particularly Paris. However, she has also published on colonial Algiers and on British travelers in revolutionary Paris. 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 European History (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004). She has recently published articles on colonial Algeria, British travelers in revolutionary Paris, Parisian travel guides and urban monuments. She is currently completing a monograph entitled, Inventing Public Space in Paris, 1748-1792. She is also editor of volume 5 of The Cultural History of Work, focusing on the period 1800-1920 and is writing a book on European countercultures. Victoria was President of the Society for French Historical Studies in 2010, and serves as Co-Chair of the Advanced Placement European History Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee. She has also 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