Gary Kates

Vice President for Academic Affairs                                                      Home: 1200 N College Ave and Dean of the College

Professor of History                                                                              Claremont, CA 91711

Pomona College

550 N College Ave                                                                              (909) 447-6490

Claremont, CA 91711-6303                                                                e-mail: gkates@pomona.edu

(909) 621-8137                                                                                   fax:  (909) 621-8836

 

 

 

Personal:                    Married since 1978 to Lynne Diamond, M.D. (Geriatrics and Family

                                    Practice).  Two Children: Emily (1982) and Max (1984)

 

Education:

 

            1978                Ph.D.   History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

            1975                M.A.    History, University of Chicago

            1974                B.A.     History (Honors), Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

 

Academic Positions:

    

            2001-               Professor of History, Pomona College

1992-2001       Professor of History, Trinity University

            1986-1992      Associate Professor of History, Trinity University

            1980-1985      Assistant Professor of History, Trinity University

1978-1979             Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Pitzer College,  Claremont, CA

 

Administrative Positions:               

 

            2001-               Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

1999-2001       Interim Dean, Division of the Humanities and Arts, Trinity University

            1995-1998      Chair, Department of History, Trinity University

            Fall 1993          Acting Chair, Department of History,  Trinity University

 

Editorial Board Positions:

 

            1995-1998       Advisory Editor for Gender Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies

            1990-1993       French Historical Studies

            1985-1987       Trinity University Press

                   

Publications:

 

            Books:           

                       

Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791: Reacting to the Past [with Mark C. Carnes] (London and New York: Longman, 2005)

 

                        Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade

                                    Hardback edition    New York: Basic Books,  1995

                                    Paperback edition   New York: Basic Books,  1996

                                    German edition       Hamburg: Klein, 1996

                                    Portuguese edition  Sao Paulo: Editions Schwarcz, 1996

                                   Italian edition          Rome: Garzanti, 1997

                                    Reprint paper edition  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

 

The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)

 

                       

            Edited Books:

 

Roland Champagne, Nina Ekstein, and Gary Kates, editors and translators., The Maiden of Tonnerre:  The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier/Chevalière d'Eon, a scholarly edition/translation of the never-before published manuscripts in the University of Leeds Brotherton Collection.  Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2001

 

The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies (London: Routledge Press, 1998) hardback and paperback; second edition hardback and paperback, 2006

 

            Scholarly Articles:

                       

"Forum on the Chevalier d'Eon and Madame du Coudray," French Historical Studies, Summer 2001.

 

"Introduction" to special issue on "Fashioning Gender," Eighteenth-Century Studies     30 (1996): 1-4

 

Introduction" to "Forum:  Royal and Aristocratic Family Politics in Eighteenth-Century France and England," Journal of Family History 21 (1996): 467-469

 

"The Transgendered World of the Chevalier/Chevalière d'Eon," Journal of Modern History 67 (September 1995): 558-594

 

"D'Eon Returns to France: Gender and Power in 1777," in Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub, eds.,             Body Guards:  The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity (New York: Routledge, 1991             [paperback ed., 1992]), pp. 167-194

 

"D'Eon's Books:  The Library of an Eighteenth-Century Transsexual," Primary Sources and Original Works 1 (1991): 137-149

 

"`The Powers of Husband and Wife Must be Equal and Separate:'  The Cercle Social and the    Rights of Women," in Darline G. Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite, eds., Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution (Ann Arbor:  U. of Michigan Press, 1990 [paperback ed. 1993]), pp. 163-180

 

"From Liberalism to Radicalism:  Tom Paine's Rights of Man,"  Journal of the History of Ideas 50 (Oct.-Dec. 1989): 569-588; reprinted in Frank Shuffelton, ed., The American Enlightenment           (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1993), pp. 318-336; reprinted in Bruce Kuklick, ed., Thomas Paine (Burlington, VT: Ashgate [The International Library of Essays on the History of Social and Political Thought] 2006), pp. 99-118.

 

"Jews Into Frenchmen:  Nationality and Representation in Revolutionary France," Social            Research 56 (Spring 1989): 213-232; reprinted in Ferenc Féher, ed., The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 [paperback ed., 1992]), pp. 103-116; reprinted in The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations, 5th edition, eds. Frank A. Kafker, et. al. (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 2002), pp. 417-432.

 

            "Forum on the Girondins," French Historical Studies 15 (Spring 1989): 543-546

 

"The Girondins:  Champions of Representative Democracy,"  French Politics and Society 7 (Summer 1989):  82-89

 

“The Municipal Origins of the Cercle Social," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-            1850.  Proceedings  (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1983)

 

"Priest and Politician:  Claude Fauchet's Episcopal Campaign of 1791," The Consortium  on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850.  Proceedings  (Athens, GA:  University of Georgia Press, 1979)

 

Book Review Essay:  

 

"The Revisionists Come of Age:  Reflections on Three Important Recent Works,"  French Historical Studies 16 (1990): 614-621

 

Essays and Commentaries:

 

"The Classics of Western Civilization Do Not Belong to Conservatives Alone," Chronicle of Higher Education 25 (July 5, 1989): B1-2

 

"Introduction," Camille Desmoulins, Révolutions de France et de Brabant  (reprint ed, Frankfurt         am Main: Keip Verlag, 1989)

 

Contributing Author, Voices of the Revolution, eds., Colin Jones  and Richard Cobb (London: Phoebe Phillips, 1988)

 

Eleven articles for the Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, eds. Barry Rothaus and Samuel Scott, 2 vols. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985), including "Propaganda," "Girondins," and "Brissot"

 

Selected Book Reviews:

 

American Historical Review (2004, 2003, 1999); Eighteenth-Century Studies (1986); H-France (2001, 2005); The Historian (1987); Journal of Modern History (2003, 2002, 1999, 1990, 1989, 1988); Social History (2004, 1995) Journal of European Ideas (1994); The European  Legacy:  Toward New Paradigms (1997); Libraries and Culture (1998); Canadian Journal of History  (1997);  Diderot Studies (1997); H-Albion (2001)

 

Syllabi
 History 173: The French Revolution
 ID 1:  Critical Inquiry, Section 11