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Academic Profile
Charles Walton is a historian of eighteenth-century France. He is Director of the European Historical Research Centre and President of the Board of the GIS Sociability Network based at the University of Rennes. Before joining the History Department at 糖心TV, he taught at Yale University, the University of Oklahoma (Norman) and Sciences Po (Paris). His research focuses on Ancien R茅gime, Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, with emphases on human rights, political economy and socioeconomic justice.
His prize-winning book, (2009, paperback 2011, revised French edition 2014), explores the themes of honour, democratisation, free expression and terror. It shows how early failures to regulate free speech during the French Revolution fueled political polarisation and political violence. He has edited a collection of essays in honour of Robert Darnton on print culture, (2011).
His recent research has centred on political economy and social rights. With Leverhulme funding, he created a network on social rights, which has produced several publications, including his co-edited (Cambridge, 2022; paperback 2025) and special issue of French History on social rights (2019).
He is currently developing a new research networkLink opens in a new window on the history of duties (as correlatives to rights).
RECENT
'...' in Malcolm Langford and Katharine B. Young, The Oxford Handbook on Economic and Social Rights (2025)
'', with Charly Coleman, French History (2024)
, co-edited with Steven L. B. Jensen (Cambridge, paperback 2025)
Open Global Rights
(2022)
(2021)
Podcast: , episode 32, 'Policing Opinion in the French Revolution' (2019)
2022 and
A discussing this volume and others reshaping human-rights history
Postgraduate students
I welcome applicants interested in pursuing MA and/or PhD research projects in eighteenth-century European or Atlantic History involving France. Please feel free to contact me to discuss your interests.
Current and recent doctoral students
Kathryn Mechedou, 'Anglo-French Relations during the Age of Revolution' (2025- )
Jeremy Goh: 'Globalizing from the Periphery: Chinese banking transnationalism in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China,1900-1950' (2024--)
Claire Rioult: 'War by other means? British and French commercial diplomacies and the Spanish market (1783-1808)鈥�
Ronan Love: 'Revolutionary Debts: The Politics of Financial Obligation in the French Revolution' (completed 2023)
Past and Current postdoctoral fellows
Francesco Buscemi: '"I swear": Oath-taking and Political Allegiance at the Start of the Modern Era' (2016-2017)
Glauco Schettini: 'Power and Paranoia: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848', Marie-Curie Fellow (2025-2027)
Publications
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Books & edited collections
- Revolution, Art, and Medicine in French History. Essays in honour of Colin Jones, edited with Cathy McClive (Florida State University), special issue of French History 38: 1 (2024)
- (Cambridge University Press, 2022, paperback 2025), (co-edited with Steven L. B. Jensen, Danish Institute for Human Rights)
- , editor of special issue of French History (December 2019)
- (Penn State University Press, 2012), (edited)
- (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009; paperback edition 2011).
- Winner of the 2010 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize of Yale University
- French translation with new introduction, , preface by Jean-Cl茅ment Martin (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014)
Articles & Essays
- 'A Long History of Economic and Social Rights: Between Redistribution and Abundance Theories', in Malcolm Langford and Katharine B. Young (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Economic and Social Rights (2025).
- 'Socioeconomic Rights', with Glauco Schettini (Yale and now a Marie-Curie Fellow at 糖心TV), in Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts (eds.), Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge, 2025)
- '', with Charly Coleman (Columbia University), French History 38: 1 (March 2024)
- 'Colin Jones: Fox and Hedgehog Historian of France', with Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cathy McClive and Richard Taws, French History 38: 1 (March 2024)
- 'Who Pays? Social Rights and the French Revolution', in Jensen and Walton (eds), Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (Cambridge, 2022).
- '' in Jensen and Walton (eds), Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (Cambridge, 2022).
- '', French History and Civilization vol. 9 (2020).
- '', in Charles Walton (ed.), French History (special issue on 'Socioeconomic Rights and Duties', December 2019)
- '', Critical Historical Studies 5: 1 (2018), 1-43.
- 'Piketty鈥檚 Provocative Contradiction: Economic Determinism versus Historical Contingency in Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyLink opens in a new window', Allegoria, No. 71-72, 2016.
- 'Clubs, Parties, Factions' in David Andress (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution (Oxford: OUP, 2015)
- '' (keynote address) and '' (abstract) in Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley and Colin Jones (eds.), e-France: New Perspectives on the French Revolution. vol. 4 (2013).
- 鈥楤etween Trust and Terror: Patriotic Giving in the French Revolution鈥� in David Andress (ed.), Experiencing the French Revolution (Oxford: SVEC, 2013)
- 鈥楾he Fall from Eden: The Free Trade Origins of the French Revolution鈥� in Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Nelson (eds.), The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)
- 鈥楶ublic Opinion and Free-market Morality in Old Regime and Revolutionary France鈥� in Massimo Rospocher, ed. Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe (XVI-XVIII) (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012)
- 鈥楲es graines de la discorde: Print, Public Spirit, and Free Market Politics in the French Revolution鈥� in Charles Walton (ed.), Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment (2011)
- 鈥楲a opini贸n p煤blica y la pol铆tica patol贸gica de la Revoluci贸n Francesa鈥� in Ayer, 80: 4 (2010)
- 鈥楲a libert茅 de la presse dans les cahiers de dol茅ances de 1789鈥� in Revue d鈥檋istoire moderne et contemporaine (jan-mars, 2006)
- 鈥楥harles IX and the French Revolution: Law, Vengeance, and the Revolutionary Uses of History鈥� in European Review of History/Revue europ茅enne d鈥檋istoire, 4: 2 (1997)
Public Writings & Media
- '' for Foreign Affairs (2013). A review of Tom Hooper's film Les mis茅rables.
- '', for La Vie des Id茅es/Books and Ideas (2013). traduit par Emilie L鈥橦么te ici).
- '', The Conversation (Jan 8, 2015). Reflections on the Charlie Hebdo tragedy of 2015.
- '', Dialogue no. 11 (spring 2015), p. 34-37.
- , Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech, episode 32 (2019).
- '', Open Global Rights (July 2021)
- '', Open Global Rights (April 2022)
Teaching
- (undergraduate second-year option module)
- (undergraduate final-year Special Subject)
- (undergraduate final-year Advanced Option)
- (undergraduate second-year core module)
- HI989 Theories, Skills and Methods (MA core module)
- (MA option module)
- (MA core module)
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