Bill Olejniczak
Professor Emeritus
Bill Olejniczak received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1983. He was an Associate Professor at the College of Charleston from 1987-2019 and has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Versailles/Saint-Quentin in France. He served as director of the M.A. Program from 1994-1998 and the Director of the European Studies Program at the College of Charleston. He continues to regularly conduct study abroad programs. Bill has published in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of Policy History. During his time at the College of Charleston, he taught courses on the Enlightenment, Revolutionary and French Revolution, modern Europe labor history, and 19th & 20th century France.
Education
1983 - Ph.D., Duke University
Research Interests
France, European Social and Cultural History
Courses Taught
Industrial Revolution
The Age of Englightenment and Revolution
Contemporary Europe: 1945 to Present
The Social and Cultural History of Pre-Industrial Europe
Enlightenment and the French Revolution
World War II
History of Modern France
Research Seminar in Modern European History
European Studies
Publications
Crossings Frontiers: Culture, Language & Bilingualism; Peter Pelham & Eric Widmer, editors "Crossing Cultural and Linguistic Frontiers: Some Reflections from a Historian on the Recent European Past." Author: William Olejniczak (Deerfield Academy Press, 2004): 25-39.