Faculty Guide

Title

Leff Families Professor of Modern European History

History

Expertise

Modern history. Culture and thought. Psychohistory.

Profile

Professor Binion conducts wide-ranging research exploring individual motivation and group process in history. His most recent subjects include the American and French demographic transitions, the Black Death, and the emergence of European identity.

Awards and Honors

Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France) (1999)

Research appointment, Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (1998)

Fulbright Fellowship (1991 - 1992)

Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France) (1985)

Cartel Constituant de l'Analyse Freudienne colloquium on his work (1985)

Chair, Adams Prize Committee, American Historical Association (1984)

Medal: 350th anniversary, College de France (1981)

Pulitzer Prize nomination (1976)

Leff Families Chair (1971)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1961)

Charles Louis Beer Prize (1960)

Clarke F. Ansley Award (1958)

Courses Taught

HIST	132a	European Thought and Culture: Marlowe to Mill
HIST	132b	European Thought and Culture since Darwin
HIST	146a	Romantic Europe, 1798-1848
HIST	146b	Hitler, Germany, and Europe
HIST	191b	Psychohistory
HIST	210a	Historical Research: Methods and New Departures
HIST	211a	Seminar in Comparative History I
USEM	49a	Text and Subtext

Scholarship

Binion, Rudolph. Past Impersonal : Group Process in Human History. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.

Binion,Rudolph. Sounding the Classics: From Sophocles to Thomas Mann. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger, 1997.

Binion,Rudolph. Freud über Aggression und Tod. Vienna: Picus, 1995.

Binion,Rudolph. Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

Binion,Rudolph. After Christianity. Durango, CO: Logbridge-Rhodes, 1986.

Binion,Rudolph. Introduction à la psychohistoire. Paris: Collège de France and Presses Universitaires, 1982.

Binion,Rudolph. Soundings: Psychohistorical and Psycholiterary. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1981.

Binion,Rudolph. Hitler Among the Germans. New York: Elsevier, 1976.

Binion,Rudolph. Frau Lou: Nietzche's Wayward Disciple. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.

Binion,Rudolph. Defeated Leaders: The Political Fate of Caillaux, Jouvenel, and Tardieu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.