Dr. Brady Brower

Assistant Professor of History

 

Phone - (801) 626-6291         

Fax - (801) 626-7613 Email -  mbrower@weber.edu    

Course Page -   http://faculty.weber.edu/mbrower/

              

  Dr. Brower has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his next book project, "Animal Republic: Social Biology and the Evolution of the French Republic, 1870-1914."  The applicant success rate for this prestigious national award is less than 6%.

Research and Teaching Areas: 

Degrees: B.A. University of Idaho (1993), M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder (1996), Ph.D., Rutgers University (2005)

Courses:

• HIST 1500 World History to 1500 c.e.
• HIST 1510 World History 1500 c.e to Present
• HIST 4250 19th Century Europe
  
  
• HIST 4260 20^th Century Europe
• HIST 4370 Modern France

Publications

•  "Science, Seduction, and the Lure of Reality in Third Republic France" History of the Present (2012)

• "Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France" University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-07751-7
  
  

•  “Story of the Eye: The Fantasy of the Orgy and Its Limit,” American Imago 59.1 (Spring  2002), pp. 73–89

•  “Strategic Re-membering: The Boundary Politics of Mourning in Post-Great War France,” Rethinking History 1.1 (Spring 1997), pp. 21–34

•  Translation of Tzvetan Todorov’s “Totalitarianism: Between Religion and Science,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 2.1 (Summer 2001), pp. 28-42