KEVIN C. ROBBINS

Associate Professor of History; Adjunct Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies. B.A. Reed College 1981, M.A. University of Pennsylvania 1985, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 1991.

Teaching specialties: Early modern France, European urban history, history of philanthropy, early modern European social and cultural history, graduate historiography and research methods.

Research interests: socio-cultural and socio-political histories of the French west country, history of European legal institutions, culture of the French Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and ethnographic approaches to the study of early modern European urban and popular culture.

Publications: "The Social Mechanisms of Urban Rebellion: A Case Study of Leadership in the 1614 Revolt at La Rochelle," French Historical Studies (Fall, 1995); "Municipal Justice, Urban Police, and the Tactics of Counter-Reformation in La Rochelle, 1618-1650," French History (Sept., 1995); City on the Ocean Sea: LaRochelle, 1530-1650 (Brill, 1997).

Office: CA 504Q
Phone: (317) 274-5819
krobbin1@iupui.edu