Meghan Roberts

Candidate statement

Meghan Roberts is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, where she teaches early modern European history. She is the author of Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Her articles on families, gender, science, and medicine in the eighteenth century have appeared in French Historical Studies, The Journal of Women's History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Journal of Modern History, and the online journals Age of Revolutions and Notches. Her current research considers how eighteenth-century French medical practitioners established and exercised their authority during an age of media revolution and colonial exploitation.