Steven D. Kale
Professor of History
Director of Graduate Studies
Wilson-Short Hall 338 – 509-335-3059
kale@wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987
Academic & Professional Interests
Professor Kale teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in 19th-century Europe, modern France, and postwar Europe. He is the director of graduate studies in the history department and chair of the Koren Prize Committee for the Society for French Historical Studies. His research focuses on modern French history, where much of his work addresses the politics and social life of 19th-century elites.
Publications
Professor Kale is the author of Legitimism and the Reconstruction of French Society, 1852–1883 (Louisiana State University Press, 1992) and French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He has published articles in such journals as French Historical Studies, French History, the Journal of Women's History, and Historical Reflections. He is currently working on a book entitled Elusive Traditions: French Legitimist Encounters in Europe and America, 1800–1890, which will examine the international dimensions of 19th-century French royalism.
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