Dr. Micah Alpaugh

Curriculum Vita

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

M.A., University of California, Irvine

B.A., Northern Arizona University

Areas of Interest

French Revolution, Atlantic World, Early Modern Europe, Modern Europe, Eighteenth-Century American History, Peace Studies, Social Movements

 

I broadly consider myself a historian of social movements, particularly their rise, development and diffusion in France and across the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. My first book, Non-Violence and the French Revolution: Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795 (Cambridge University Press, 2015) examines the development of protest marches in the French capital and the broader prevalence of physically nonviolent strategies for achieving revolutionary change. Next, in broader perspective, I wrote Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2022, winner of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Book Award and the Prix Zeev Sternhell of the Comité internationale d’histoire de la Révolution française, forthcoming in Spanish translation) exploring international connections across America, Britain, Ireland, France, and Haiti ca. 1765-1800 and the extent to which the eighteenth century’s greatest revolutionary movements functioned as part of a common pattern. Thereafter, I returned to the French Revolution to compose The People’s Revolution of 1789 (Cornell University Press, 2024, forthcoming in Chinese translation), the first study bringing together the Parisian, provincial, and colonial popular movements of that momentous year. Additionally, I have compiled a primary source collection, The French Revolution: A Document History (Bloomsbury, 2021) and am finishing co-editing (with the late William C. Stinchcombe) the Letters and Correspondence of Nathaniel Cutting, a trafficker of the enslaved and eyewitness to the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions.