Department of History

Donna Bohanan, Professor, PhD Emory University (1982), BA Hendrix College (1976). Her research interests include early modern France, provincial nobilities, and material culture.

Her first book, Old and New Nobility in Aix-en-Provence, 1600-1695: Portrait of an Urban Elite, appeared in 1992, and her second book, Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France was published in 2001. She is currently working on a book-length project that explores consumption patterns among noble families in the frontier province of Dauphiné; here consumption became for local elites a crucial means of defining their position in provincial society. Specifically, Bohanan is using notary inventories of noble estates to reconstruct the contents and decorative schemes of their homes. Based on this archival material she has contributed a chapter to Furnishing the Eighteenth Century, edited by Kathryn Norberg and Dena Goodman (forthcoming with Routledge Press).

Bohanan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early modern Europe, which include her course on daily life and popular culture entitled, "Private Lives and Public Places in Early Modern Europe." In addition, she regularly teaches in the World History program.

• 1982 PhD, Emory University
• MA, Emory University
• 1976 BA, Hendrix College

Books

• Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
• Old and New Nobility in Aix-en-Provence, 1600-1695: Portrait of an Urban Elite (Louisiana State University, 1992)

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