Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky, who earned his PhD in Modern European History from the University of Virginia in 1989, is a professor at the University of Houston where he holds a joint appointment between the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Honors College. His publications include Nimes at War: Religion, Politics and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-1944 (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995) and Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press 2004). He translated Tzvetan Todorov’s Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999) and with John Scot, translated and wrote a critical introduction to Todorov’s Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001). He also co-edited France at War: Vichy and the Historians (Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers Ltd., 2000). Currently, with Sarah Fishman and Alice Conklin, he is writing a history of modern France for Oxford University Press, and co-authoring, with John Scott, a book on the short friendship between David Hume and J.J. Rousseau. Professor Zaretsky may be contacted at .