This interview is with Ted Margadant, Professor Emeritus of History. Ted was appointed in 1969 and retired in 2010.
His research focused on 18th and 19th century French History, particularly on the role of rural populations and small-town elites in French political history.
His teaching focused on European history. He taught a lower-division course on Western Civilization in the modern period and upper-division courses on the French Revolution and France in the 19th and 20th centuries.
He served on the Committee on Academic Personnel in the 1980s. He also served as Chair of the History Department from 1994-1999 and again from 2007-2009.
He received a National Humanities Center Fellowship for 2002-2003 which led to a book that was recently published.
He is interviewed by his friend and colleague, Louis Warren, Professor of History.
