Terjanian

Anoush Fraser Terjanian

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Phone: 252-328-6093

Office: Brewster A340

Fax: 252-328-6774

Anoush Terjanian specialises in the history of commerce, empire, and political thought in eighteenth-century France. Her current book-length project, “‘Doux commerce’ and its Discontents: Slavery, Piracy, and Monopoly in Eighteenth-Century France,” uncovers a tension between “gentle” and “odious” forms of commerce recognised as such by political thinkers and public intellectuals in the period. It argues that this tension indicated an ambivalence toward commerce characterized by the simultaneous exultation of commerce and fear of its deviant forms. The centrepiece of this study is the ten-volume best-seller, the Histoire des deux Indes (1780) – a comparative history of the European empires headed by the Abbé Raynal. Dr. Terjanian is currently co-editing Book 17 of the Histoire des deux Indes for the first critical edition of the work organized by the Voltaire Foundation at Oxford University.

At ECU since August 2004, Dr. Terjanian has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Old Regime France, the French Revolution, the European Enlightenments and a seminar on Commerce and its Critics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. She is currently the co-ordinating instructor for “Great Books of Love,” the introductory course for ECU’s Great Books Program. She also enjoyed acting as a historical consultant and pre-concert lecturer for the School of Music’s performance of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Dr. Terjanian is an alumna of the Canadian Parliamentary Internship Programme and previously worked as a G-7 Summit Officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs in Ottawa. Her other degrees include a Joint Honours B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University and a M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge University.

Selected Publications:

Co-editor. Histoire philosophique et politique du commerce et des établissements des européens dans les deux Indes. (1770, 1774, 1780) Book 17. Voltaire Foundation, Oxford University. Forthcoming 2010.

Courses Offered:

HIST 1031: World Civilizations Since 1500

HIST 3444: Old Regime and Revolutionary France

HIST 3445: Modern France

HIST 4445: The European Enlightenments

HIST 6444: Topics in Old Regime and Revolutionary France

GRBK 2000: Great Books of Love

GRBK 4000: Commerce and its Critics: From Xenophon to Naomi Klein