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Professor

History

Curriculum Vitae

Bryant Timmons Ragan, who most commonly answers to his nickname, “Tip,” teaches early modern European history and the history of sexuality and gender at The Colorado College. At the intro level, he offers courses that focus on the Renaissance and Reformation, the English Revolution, the French Revolution, and the history of witchcraft in worldwide perspective. His intermediate-level offerings include courses on European society in the age of absolutism, Enlightenment culture, and art and history in nineteenth-century Paris. His upper-level courses “History of Sex: Traditions” and “History of Sex: Modernity” are generally taught every year.

Professor Ragan has co-edited four books and a special volume of a journal. With Jeffrey Merrick, he has published Policing Homosexuality in Pre-Revolutionary Paris on the “Policing Male Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Paris” website, which is hosted by Colorado College (https://coloradocollege.website/phs/foucaults-reports-1780-83-full-text/, 2021); Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection (Oxford, 2001); Homosexuality in Modern France (Oxford, 1996); and Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality in Global Perspective, a special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (2007). With Elizabeth Williams, he edited Re-creating Authority in Revolutionary France (Rutgers, 1992).

More recently, Professor Ragan has published “Same-Sex Sexual Relations and the French Revolution: The Decriminalization of Sodomy in 1791” in From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789, ed. Sean Brady and Mark Seymour, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). His “Everyday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France: Essays in Honor of Lynn Hunt,” co-edited with Victoria Thompson and Suzanne Desan is forthcoming in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series (Liverpool, May 2024).

Along with America and French colleagues, including students and alums at Colorado College, Professor Ragan is currently working on a digital liberal arts project on the history of sodomy in eighteenth-century Paris. Information on that endeavor may be found at https://coloradocollege.website/phs/.

Numerous grants have supported Professor Ragan's research on eighteenth-century France, including fellowships from the Folger Library, the Camargo Foundation, the French Government (Bourse Chateaubriand), and Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Ragan has served as President and Executive Director of the Society for French Historical Studies and as President of the Western Society for French History.

At Colorado College, Professor currently holds the William R. Hochman Professorship in History. From 2014 to 2017, he held the Lloyd Edson Worner Distinguished Service Professorship.