John Savage

First Name: 

John

Last Name: 

Savage

Full Title: 

Associate Professor

Email: 

Education: 

PHD, NYU, 1999

Interests: 

Modern France, European Social and Cultural, French Colonial

Address: 

Maginnes 331

Phone: 

610-758-3363

Profile: 

 Professor Savage is a historian of Modern Europe who is especially interested in the way legal systems shape political culture and social relations. He is currently working on a study of the impact of the Napoleonic Code on slavery in the French Caribbean as part of a broader cultural history of the 19th century Civil law.