Doina Pasca Harsanyi

Doina Pasca Harsanyi received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. She joined the faculty at CMU in 2002.

Research Interests

Professor Harsanyi's current research interests include French-American relations, the movement of ideas across the Atlantic during the Enlightenment and the modern era, and the history of the nobility throughout the revolutionary era.

Recent Publications

Lessons from America Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793–1798. State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.

Le Goût de la Révolte (in collaboration with Anne Quinney). Paris: Mercure de France, 2008.

“How to make a revolution without firing a shot.” French History, (2/22) June 2008: 197-216

“Literature to the rescue: the portrayal of the nobility in Balzac’s novels." Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 2005: 119-132.

"The Memoirs of Alexandre de Lameth and the reconciliation between nobility and revolution." In The French Nobility and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and new Approaches, ed. Jay Smith. Penn State University Press, 2006.

"A resilient elite: Survival and decadence." Scandinavian Journal of History 33:3/4 (September 2005): 286-297.

"The good aristocrat versus the rogue: The marquise de La Tour du Pin and the count de Tilly in America." Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 33 (2002): 146-156.