Rafe Blaufarb

Professor of History

Professor Blaufarb studied at Amherst College, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He is the author of The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit (Manchester, 2002), and Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 (Alabama, 2005). He has published articles in the American Historical Review, Annales, H.S.S., French Historical Studies, French History Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, and Annales historiques de la Révolution Française. He has received fellowships and research grants from the NEH, Mellon Foundation, Camargo Foundation, as well as a Bourse Châteaubriand.

Before coming to FSU in fall 2006, Professor Blaufarb was an associate professor of history at Auburn University. He has also taught as an invited professor of modern history at the Université Paul-Valéry III (Montpellier). He is currently working on several research projects: the history of noble tax exemption in Old Regime France, a history on the fate of seigneurial property during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Age, and the geopolitics of Latin American independence after the fall of Napoleon.

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				Rafe Blaufarb Professor of History Professor Blaufarb studied at Amherst College, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He is the author of The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit (Manchester, 2002), and Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Refugees and Exiles on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 (Alabama, 2005). He has published articles in the American Historical Review, Annales, H.S.S., French Historical Studies, French History Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, and Annales historiques de la Révolution Française. He has received fellowships and research grants from the NEH, Mellon Foundation, Camargo Foundation, as well as a Bourse Châteaubriand. Before coming to FSU in fall 2006, Professor Blaufarb was an associate professor of history at Auburn University. He has also taught as an invited professor of modern history at the Université Paul-Valéry III (Montpellier). He is currently working on several research projects: the history of noble tax exemption in Old Regime France, a history on the fate of seigneurial property during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Age, and the geopolitics of Latin American independence after the fall of Napoleon.