The French Revolution and Human Rights: Tyler rated it liked it Jul 29, Popkinn 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Jeremy Popkin gives a concise and surprisingly effective almost summary of the most tumultuous ten-year history in French history. For courses on the French Revolution.Written for today's undergraduates, this up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Period offers a shorter,.

Popkin received his B.A. Degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and holds an A.M. Degree from Harvard University. When he was hired on a one-year contract at the University of Kentucky in 1978, the History Department secretary put him in what was then the department's conference room, saying, 'Since you won't be staying long, it won't matter.' Popkin is still occupying the same office.

Popkin's scholarly interests include the history of the French and Haitian revolutions and the topic of autobiographical literature. His newest book is (Oxford University Press, 2015). His other publications include _ (2010), __ (1990), __ (2005), and a number of other books and scholarly articles. Popkin has held fellowships from the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Newberry Library, and has been a visiting professor at Brown University and at the, which has recorded his lectures as podcasts (in French).

In 2012, Popkin was a short-term visiting professor at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and in 2013 he was named the Christian Wolff Visiting Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany. Popkin teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the era of the French Revolution, on French history in the early modern and modern periods, and on the Holocaust. He has served as director of UK's Jewish Studies program, and has frequently participated in the UK Social Theory program.

In 2015-2016, Popkin is co-directing the College of Arts and Sciences' 'Year of Europe' program. Current Students • Jeff Stanley • Greg Seltzer • Corinne Gressang • Heidi Hagedorn. Current research projects: (1) the French Revolution and Slavery: a book-length study of the French revolutionary debates concerning slavery, intended to demonstrate the central importance of this issue throughout the Revolution and the significance of the French Revolution's confrontation with slavery in the larger story of abolition in the Atlantic world. (2) The Declaration of Rights of 1789: A Philosophical Speech Act: an interpretive study of the French Revolution's best-known decree, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and its implications. (3) Free and Equal: The Story of the French Revolution: a general history of the French Revolution, taking into account the past quarter-century of research on the subject.