Profile

Leonard Rosenband is the author of Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805 (2000). It appeared in French translation in 2005. He is the coeditor of The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800 (1993). He is the author of articles published in French Historical Studies, Science in Context, Social History, Technology and Culture, The Journal of Economic History, and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He is currently completing a comparative study of French and English papermaking for the Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2001-2002 he was a Dibner Senior Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT, Princeton, the American Council of Learned Societies, Utah State University, and the Council of European Studies have provided past grants to support his research, and he has lectured at sites as diverse as the Wharton School in Philadelphia, the Cohn Institute in Tel Aviv, and Vrije Universiteit in Brussels.

A graduate of Bucknell University (B.A.) and Princeton (M.A., Ph.D.), Dr. Rosenband came to Utah State in 1983, and quickly gained a following as an enthralling lecturer. His courses include Modern Western Civilization, Europe and the French Revolution, and a graduate seminar on History and Theory. Dr. Rosenband holds the rank of professor.