department of international Language
and culture studies
professor of history
Meet Deborah Bauer
Professor of History in the Department of History
Dr. Deborah Bauer is Associate Professor of Modern European History. Her research and teaching interests are in the history of modern France and the French Empire, as well as the history of espionage/intelligence and the history of emotions.
She is the author of Marianne is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State (Nebraska, 2021), which was shortlisted for the Polly Corrigan Book Prize. She has also published several articles and book chapters on the subject of French intelligence history, and France’s Protectorate over colonial Madagascar (1885-1895).
Dr. Bauer currently serves as the Director of the History Internship Program and the Director of the PFW Office of Major Scholarship Advising.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles
Maîtrise d’histoire contemporaine, History, Université Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne
B.A., History and International Studies, Yale University
COURSES TAUGHT AT PURDUE FORT WAYNE
HIST 11400: Western Civilization since 1500
HIST 12500: Historically Speaking: Introduction to Historical Communication
HIST 22500: Empires in World History
HIST 31402: Europe from the New World to Napoleon
HIST 32701: Modern France and the French Empire
HIST 33604: France in WWI and WWII
HIST 34502: History of Espionage
HIST 34902: History of Emotions
HIST 35501: France from Louis XIV to the French Revolution
HIST 49500: Senior Seminar: European Empires 1850-1960s
HIST 49601: History Internship
INTL 2000: Introduction to International Studies (team taught, interdisciplinary)
