Julian Bourg
Associate Professor
Biography
Professor Bourg’s teaching and research interests include 19th- and 20th-century European intellectual history, the history of terrorism, history and film, modernism, and contemporary theory. His first book, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought , winner of the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas , and republished in a second edition in 2017, examined the revival of the theme of ethics among French intellectuals in the wake of the student and worker revolts of May 1968. Professor Bourg is currently writing a book on the conceptual histories of terror and terrorism since the 18th century. He is a past recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.