Carter had a terrific interview with Professor Troyansky on the latest episode of My Professor Podcast.

Native New Yorker Professor David Troyansky is a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French history. He has published on the history of old age, French provincial culture, the French Revolution, and transnational space and identities in the Francophone world He returned to Brooklyn and joined the faculty of Brooklyn College in 2005 after teaching for 21 years at Texas Tech University. He earned his BA from Carleton College and his MA and PhD from Brandeis University. Over the years he has lived and conducted research in Paris, Provence, Picardy, Alsace, Normandy and the Limousin. He has taught at the Université de Limoges and held a Fulbright senior research fellowship at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. In 2008 he was president of the Western Society for French History and served as chair of the Department of History at Brooklyn College from 2005-2013. He is the author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France and Aging in World History, and a co-editor on Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World and The French Revolution in Culture and Society.

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