Welcome. My name is Matthew Adkins (hence the title). I am a professor of history at the City University of New York where I teach courses on Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe. My academic writing focuses generally on cultural and intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I have published articles on science and ethics in early modern France, on the Royal Academy of the Sciences in the seventeenth century, on the French antislavery movement in the eighteenth, and on the Republic of Letters in the nineteenth. Before coming to CUNY, I taught at Miami University, the University of Dayton, and Antioch College. I received my PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This site is a personal blog where I post information about me–the disillusioned historian–and my ideas. Click on the “Posts” menu item to visit the blog portion of this site.
(The picture in the header is of historic Pequot, Connecticut, taken on Thanksgiving Day, 2000)
