Thomas Kselman
Professor
Department of History
Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Degrees
B.A., St. Joseph's University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Profile
Thomas Kselman is a historian of Europe who specializes in modern France. His first book, Miracles and Prophecies in Nineteenth-Century France, was awarded the Shea prize in 1983 as the best work on the history of Catholicism that year. Professor Kselman has published a study of attitudes and practices concerning death in France, Death and the Afterlife in Modern France and is currently working on a book about the emerging sense of religious liberty following the French Revolution. He has served as chair of the history department on several occasions, and was director of the Notre Dame international study program in Angers, France (1985-86). He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, the governing council of the Western Society of French History, the Shea prize committee of the American Catholic Historical Association, and the Russell Major prize committee of the American Historical Association. In 2005 Kselman was President of the American Catholic Historical Association.
Contact Information
455
Decio Faculty Hall
631-7330
kselman.1@nd.edu
