James McClellan is ‘invited professor’ at Paris graduate school
Stevens professor of history and science will present several seminars
HOBOKEN, N.J. — James E. McClellan III, Professor of history and science in the history department at Stevens Institute of Technology, will be a short-term “invited professor” (professeur invité) at the prestigious École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS), the French national graduate school in social science. McClellan was invited to present a series of graduate seminars based on his own research in March, April and May of this year in Paris . The invitation is at the full-professor level (as Directeur d'études) and comes formally from the EHESS and the French government. Professor Kapil Raj, research professor at the EHESS and specialist in the area of Science and Empire, is sponsoring the invitation, and he and McClellan will be working closely together during his stay in France.
Based on his research and writings concerning the history of French science and overseas expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, McClellan will address one seminar on “Locality and Circulation of Knowledge,” and a series of three seminars on “Science and Globalization.” He will focus on what can be learned from the unparalleled colonial-scientific-technical state bureaucracy of Old-Regime France , which he and a colleague, François Regourd, have labeled the Colonial Machine of the Old Regime. McClellan and Regourd of the Université de Paris X ( Nanterre ) are collaborating on a major scholarly study of the subject which they hope to complete during McClellan’s visit.
About The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales is a national institution, one of the so-called Grands établissements of France . It is the premier graduate-level institution in the social sciences in France . It is attached to the French ministry of higher education and research. It is devoted exclusively to graduate-level research and to training for research careers in the social sciences. Founded officially only in 1975, the EHESS grew out of the earlier and influential Sixth Section (devoted to economics and social sciences) of the École Pratique des Hautes Études that dates from 1868 and that published the famous journal Annales from the 1930s. With a full-time faculty of 260, the school offers advanced students high-level programs intended to lead to research careers. The principal research domains of the EHESS include history, sociology, economics, anthropology, cognitive science, demography, geography, archaeology, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, law and mathematics, although the institution’s focus is on interdisciplinary research within these fields. A variety of doctoral programs can be pursued within the 80 research centers within the EHESS and partner institutions; about 200 graduate theses are defended each year. The Éditions l’EHESS is the publishing arm of the school.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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