Professor Carol Harrison
Carol Harrison is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
Her current project, “A Women’s History of Vatican I,” examines the controversies surrounding the First Vatican Council (1869-70) from the perspective of lay Catholic women who rejected papal infallibility. Her research has been supported by the American Academy in Rome, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Tanner Center for the Humanities at the University of Utah, the Humanities Research Institute at Rice University, the Australian Research Council, and, presently, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is the author of three books, including most recently Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance, co-authored with Thomas Brown. Earlier projects focused on the formation of the French bourgeoisie, French Catholicism after the Revolution, and scientific exploration in south Pacific and Australia. She recently stepped down as editor of French Historical Studies, and she is the immediate past president of the South Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors.
For parts of her stay, Carol will be accompanied by her husband, Thomas J. Brown, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on commemoration and the U.S. Civil War.
Select publications
Books:
with Thomas J. Brown, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance (LSU Press, 2024).
Romantic Catholics: France’s Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith (Cornell University Press, 2014).
with Ann Johnson, eds., National Identity: The Role of Science and Technology (Osiris 24) (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Recent articles:
“Charlotte von Leyden, Vatican I, and the Obedience of Catholic Women,” forthcoming in Inventing the Modern Papacy, eds. Carolina Armenteros and Javier Ramón Solans.
“Historiographie anglophone: faire de l’histoire religieuse dans une société enracinée dans la religion,” Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle 69, no. 2 (2024): 123-42.
with Maria Lamonaca Wisdom, “Biography, Women’s Friendship, and Anglo-Catholicism: Lady Georgiana Fullerton and her Circle,” Nineteenth-Century Studies 36 (2024): 1-19.
“Conversion in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Alphonse Ratisbonne in Rome and Paris,” Journal of Modern History 92, no. 1 (2020): 116-44.
Select awards
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2024-25
- Millicent Mercer Johnsen / National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies, 2024-25
Further links
Professor Harrison’s web page:
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/history/our_people/directory/harrison_carol.php
