Corinne Gressang
I am an historian of the French Revolution specializing in religious women and the dissolution of convents. My research focuses on the forming and reforming of identities for nuns and sisters who were forced from their profession and patterns of living.
2020 Society for French Historical Studies, Online
Salon: Grad Stories: Choosing French History Topics—A Global future?
2020 Society for French Historical Studies, Online
“Gabriel Gauchat: The Senses and Catholicism during the Reign of Terror”
2020 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Tallahassee, FL
“Religious Women and the Return of Catholicism to France after the Revolution”
2019 Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT
“The Politics of Labor: Former Nuns and Nursing during the French Revolution”
2019 Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN
“New Economic Habits: Wills, Vocations, and Vows of Poverty after the Dissolution of Convents”
2018 Western Society for French History, Portland, ME
“Leveraging Identity: Teaching orders (1789-1815)”
2018 Ohio Valley History Conference, Martin, TN
“Leveraging Identity: Teaching Nuns and the Dissolution of Convents (1789-1815)”
2018 Society for French Historical Studies 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
“Breaking Habits: Identity and the Dissolution of Convents”
2018 American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
Dissertation Lightning Round
2016 European Colloquium with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
“French Collective Memory in Chateaubriand’s Genie du Christianisme”
2020 Kirwan Elliott Prize
2019 Graduate Student Teaching Award
2019 GradTeach Live! Finalist
2018 Teaching Award Nomination
External Grants and Fellowships
2019 Massena Society Dissertation Research Fellowship
2019 American Catholic Historical Association Graduate Student Summer Research Grant
2018 American Historical Association Travel Grant
2017 Koch Foundation Dissertation Grant
University of Kentucky Grants and Fellowships
2020 University of Kentucky Spring Dissertation Fellowship
2019 Bryan Fellowship
2018 Arts and Sciences Research Funding
2018 Gilbert-Crowe Fund for Graduate Student Development
2017 George Herring Graduate Fellowship
2017 Albisetti Summer Research Grant
2017 Dissertation Enhancement Award
2013 First-Year Fellowship
Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana
Adjunct Instructor of History:
History 101: 20th Century World History Spring 2019
History 106: US History 1877 to the Present Spring 2019
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Online Primary Instructor: Online, six- or eight-week intensive course.
History 121: War and Society 1914-1945- eight weeks Fall 2018
History 121: War and Society 1914-1945- six weeks Summer 2018, 2019, and 2020
Instructor of record with a supervising instructor, e.g., a “Flipped Classroom”:
History 121: War and Society 1914-1945 Fall 2016
Teaching Assistant:
History 191: History of World Religions: Christianity Fall 2019
History 323: The Holocaust Spring 2018
History 122: War and Society since 1945 Spring 2017
History 104: History of Europe through 17th C Fall 2017
Guest lecture on “Absolutism and Louis XIV”
History 208: Atlantic World Spring 2016
Guest Lecture on “The Haitian Revolution in the Larger Atlantic”
History 564: History of Brazil Spring 2016
History 105: Europe from 1660 to the Present Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
History 130: Drugs and Alcohol in Western Civilization Spring 2015
RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018-2019 Grad + Pedagogy Certificate in Diversity- Training
2018 Advanced Placement World History Tutor, Lexington, KY
2017 Johns Hopkins’s CTY, Teaching Assistant- Law and Politics
2016 Johns Hopkins’s CTY, Teaching Assistant- Great Cases in American Legal History
2013 English Teacher at Yanbian University of Science and Technology- Yanji, China
2012-13 Homeschool Instructor- Grove City, PA
Publications
“Joseph Fiévée: Suzette’s Dowry” in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. April London, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
“A Second Path: Nuns in the Early French Revolution, 1789-1791” in Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements, Jean-Pierre Reed and Warren S. Goldstein, eds., (expected publication in December 2020).
Public History Outreach
“Useful Nuns and Revolutionary Possibility,” Age of Revolutions Blog. Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus, eds.. Published November 11, 2019, https://ageofrevolutions.com/2019/11/11/useful-nuns-and-revolutionary-p….