Seminars & Events
On February 6, 2012 at 8:00pm in St. Mary's Hall, the cartoonist Denis Kitchen will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Underground Comix: An Inside History."
See the History Department Calendar for more information!
Program Highlight
The Colonial History Concentration takes advantage of our special relationship with Historic St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and a colonial archeological site, research facility, and museum.
SMP Spotlight
"My St. Mary's Project was truly the culminating experience for my undergraduate years. The process brought me full circle; I was able to take a piece of literature I had read in my very first semester and keep discussing and applying theory to it in my last. My SMP proved to me that I could sustain great ideas and discipline myself, even when I was discouraged. Working so closely with my SMP mentor, Christine Adams, was really valuable, offering a one-on-one environment that I had never had with my regular classes. I came away from my project knowing more about my topic than I thought I ever would -- and I still love it!"
Christine Adams
Professor of History
Departments: History
Office: Kent Hall, Room 327
Email: cmadams@smcm.edu
Phone: 240.895.4446
Bio:
During the summer of 2011, Dr. Christine Adams and Dr. Charles Holden co-led a study tour to France entitled "Over There: The American Military Experience in France, WWI and WWII." In February 2011, Dr. Chris Adams presented a paper entitled "'Aucun être humain n'était sorti si beau des mains du Créatur': Madame Tallien and the Moral and Political Power of Beauty" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies in Charleston, SC. Dr. Adams also published her article "Women Helping Women: Citizenship, Gender and the Society for Maternal Charity" in Women in French Studies in 2010.
In July 2010, the University of Illinois Press published her new book Poverty, Charity and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France.
Education:
Professor Adams received her Ph.D. in French History in 1993 from Johns Hopkins University.
Spring 2012 Courses
HIST 274: Europe, 1815-1914 HIST 334: Europe in War and Revolution HIST 395.02: Theories and Uses of History
Course Offerings
Research Interests:
Her teaching and research interests are Ancien Régime France and the French Revolution; French History 987-present; Family History, Women's and Gender History, European History, Middle Ages-present with an emphasis on social and cultural history.
Publication Highlights
A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France by Christine Adams Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-Century France edited by Christine Adams,Jack R. Censer, and Lisa Jane Graham Poverty, Charity and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France by Christine Adams
Personal Information
Christine Adams
History Department
18952 E. Fisher Road
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Fax: 240.895.4450
