Steven D. Kale
Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 338 – 509-335-3059
kale@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987
Academic & Professional Interests
Professor Kale teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in 19th-century Europe, modern France, and postwar Europe. His research focuses on modern French history, where much of his work addresses the politics and social life of 19th-century elites.
Publications
Professor Kale is the author of Legitimism and the Reconstruction of French Society, 1852–1883 (Louisiana State University Press, 1992) and French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He has published articles in such journals as French Historical Studies, French History, the Journal of Women's History, Historical Reflections, and Modern Intellectual History. He is currently working on a book entitled Elusive Traditions: French Pan-European Encounters and the History of 1deas (1800-1900), which explores a series of fruitful pan-European intellectual encounters by looking at the work of seven French liberal and conservative writers whose intellectual trajectories were decisively influenced by study and travel abroad.