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April Shelford  

April G. Shelford

Associate Professor
PhD, Princeton University
Battelle 125
shelfor@american.edu
202-885-2613
Office Hours: Mon. 2-3pm, Wed. 5-7pm, Thu. 2-5pm
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Course Syllabi

Spring 2008

HIS 110 Renaissance & Revolutions

Fall 2007

HIS 110 Renaissance & Revolutions
HIS 110 (Honors) Renaissance & Revolutions  
HIS 744 The Historian's Craft

Fields of Interest

Early modern European History, intellectual history, history of science

Professor Shelford’s article “Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Demonstratio evangelica (1679)” won the 2002 Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the best article to appear in the Journal of the History of Ideas. Shelford is a member of the prestigious Columbia University Society of Fellows. She is currently completing a book on seventeenth century French intellectual life and the Republic of Letter and developing a project on European intellectual traditions in the eighteenth century Caribbean. Her book Transforming the Republic of Letters: Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720 was released in August 2007.

 

  
 

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