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Reed College
Department of History
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland OR, 97202
503.517.7322
breenm@reed.edu
Academic Positions
Reed College, Portland, OR.
Associate Professor of History and Humanities, 2006-present.
Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, 2000-2006.
Wheaton College, Norton, MA.
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 1999-2000.
Education
Brown University, Providence, RI.
Ph.D. in History, May 2000.
Dissertation: “Legal Culture, Municipal Politics and Royal Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France: The Avocats of Dijon, 1595-1715.”
Director: Philip Benedict. Readers: Anthony Molho and R. Burr Litchfield.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
B.A. with General Honors and Honors in History, June 1989
Fields of Training
Europe, 1492-1715 (Major Field).
Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy.
European Social, Cultural and Intellectual History.
History of Science.