William M. Reddy

Published widely in the fields of modern French and European history and the history of the emotions. Early work was on the social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century French working class and bourgeoisie. The Navigation of Feeling (2001), is widely recognized as a landmark in the history of emotions field . Recent book on the comparative history of romantic love in Medieval France, eleventh- and twelfth-century Bengal and Orissa, and Heian Japan won the David Pinkney Prize as the best book in French History from the French Historical Studies Association. Work is marked by strong interdisciplinary interests in anthropology and more recently in cognitive psychology. Reddy has served two terms as chair of the history department at Duke University. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fulbright Program.