Bette W Oliver
4404 Travis Country Circle
Apt B-1
Austin TX, 78735-6608
United States
512 892-0775
betteoliver@sbcglobal.net
Disciplines:
Modern European History (M.A. Ph.D.) University of Texas at Austin Journalism (B.J., M.A.) University of Texas at AustinCurrent Research Areas:
French Revolution/Napoleonic Empire, 1789-1820 Girondin fugitives, 1793-95 Fr. settlement in the Ohio Valley, 1790sRecent Scholarly Activity:
Bette W. Oliver is an independent scholar specializing in late 18th-century France. She has written extensively on the revoutionary and Napoleonic periods in books, journal articles, and book reviews. With graduate degrees in journalism (M.A.) and Modern European History (M.A., Ph.D.) from The University of Texas at Austin, she worked as an editor on the interdisciplinary journal, Libraries & Culture, published by The University of Texas Press, from 1986 to 2005, and also did feelance work. She is a member of the Western Society for French History, the Society for French Historical Studies, the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, and the American Historical Association, and a number of her papers have been published in their proceedings volumes. She is also the author of eight volumes of poetry, published under the name of Elizabeth W. Oliver.Recent Publications:
From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale (Lexington Books, 2007) Orphans on the Earth: Girondin Fugitives from the Terror, 1793-94 (Lexington Books, 2009) In Search of Better Worlds: From the French Revolution to the Ohio Wilderness (University of Alabama Press, work-in-progress)Copyright © 2009 Bette W Oliver. All rights reserved.