Gail Bossenga
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 211Phone: 757-221-3757
Email: [[gmboss]]
Research Interests
Gail Bossenga specializes in the social and political history of early modern France. She is the author of The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and has published articles on French finances, guilds, nobility and citizenship in eighteenth-century France. Her current project is a study of the origins of the French Revolution, under contract with Palgrave Press.
Background
Gail Bossenga received her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Michigan in European History and has been at William and Mary since 2004. From 1987 to 2004 she taught at the University of Kansas. She has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council for Learned Societies, and has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies and book review staff of H-France.
