Dr. Jeffrey David Burson

Professor of History (2011).

Ph.D. George Washington University (2006); M. Phil. George Washington University (2003); B.A. Concordia University, Ann Arbor (1999).

Teaching and Research Interests: Early Modern and Modern France; European Enlightenment; Religion and Enlightenment; Enlightenment Catholicism, Age of Revolutions, c. 1760-1848

Upper Division Courses:

• HIST 3030: Special Topics, Age of Napoleon in Global Context
• HIST 3540 Age of Revolutions in Europe and the Atlantic World
• HIST 3550: European Intellectual History
• HIST 4635: Senior Seminar
• HIST 5336: Revolutionary France
• HIST 5430: Modern France and French Society
• HIST 7633: Readings in European History

Contact Information:

Department of History
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054

Office: #3010, Interdisciplinary Arts Building
Tel.: 912-478-8532
Email: jburson@georgiasouthern.edu
Fax: 912-478- 0377

Selected Publications:

• The Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2019).
• Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason, with Anton M. Matytsin (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Studies on the Enlightenment, 2019).
• The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, Consequences. with Jonathan Wright. (New York, NY; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History with Ulrich Lehner.  Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
• The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth- Century France. Foreword by Dale K. Van Kley. Notre Dame University Press, 2010.

Professional Activities

• Editorial Board: French Historical Studies (2018-2021).
• Governing Council: Western Society for French History (2019-2022).
• Editorial Board: Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (2019-Present).
• Board of Directors, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850.

Current Research:

• “The Polyvalence of Heterodox Sources and Eighteenth-Century Religious Change,” in Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies in Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620 – 1823, ed. Margaret C. Jacob and John Christian Laursen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020 forthcoming).
• “The Enlightenment of the Jesuits: A Global History” (Book Manuscript in Progress).
• “Cultural Renovations, Revolutions, and Enlightenment across Eurasia, ca. 1550-1850” (Book Manuscript in Progress).

Last updated: 3/30/2022