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Anoush Fraser Terjanian  Assistant Professor B.A., Joint Honours in History and Political Science, McGill University
M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History, Cambridge University
Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University Phone: 252-328-6093 Fax: 252-328-6774 Office: Brewster A-340 Address: Department Of History East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Anoush Terjanian specialises in the history of commerce, empire, and political thought in eighteenth-century France. Her current book-length project, “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. Terjanian is currently co-editing Book 17 of the Histoire des deux Indes for the first critical edition of the work. Terjanian teaches 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 coordinated “Great Books of Love,” the introductory course for ECU’s Great Books Program and 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. 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. Most recently, she was a Fellow and, later, an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Terjanian welcomes applications from graduate students interested in the following fields: history of political thought; history of economic thought; history of empire; “Atlantic World;” Enlightenments; Old Regime France; Revolutionary France; history of gender; cultural and intellectual history. Selected Publications Co-editor. Book 17 of Raynal et. al., Histoire philosophique et politique du commerce et des établissements des européens dans les deux Indes, (1770, 1774, 1780), Ferney: Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, forthcoming 2012, http://c18.net/ra/ra_pages.php?nom=ra_presentation
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 |
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