Andrew Jainchill's general field of study is early modern Europe, with primary research interests in eighteenth-century France, the French Revolution, and the history of political thought. He is the author of Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism (Cornell University Press, 2008) as well as articles and essays in a number of venues. In addition, he has edited and introduced a critical edition, 顿鈥橝谤驳别苍蝉辞苍, Consid茅rations sur le gouvernement, a critical edition, with other political texts, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool University Press, 2019). He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and, during the 2013-14 academic year, a residential fellow at the Institut d'茅tudes avanc茅es de Paris. He currently serves on the editorial board of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and has previously done so for Modern Intellectual History and French Historical Studies. He is currently working on two major research projects: (1) a study of French political thought during the first half of the eighteenth century, titled 鈥淪overeignty and Reform in the Early Enlightenment;鈥 (2) an intellectual biography of the political writer and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ren茅-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d鈥橝rgenson.
Publications
- 鈥淭he Political Thought of Henri de Boulainvilliers Reconsidered,鈥 in The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Jacques Bos and Jan Rotmans (Brill, 2022).
- 顿鈥橝谤驳别苍蝉辞苍, Consid茅rations sur le gouvernement, a critical edition, with other political texts, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2019:05 (Liverpool University Press, 2019).
- 鈥淕en猫se d鈥檜ne pens茅e politique : les manuscrits des Consid茅rations sur le gouvernement ancien et pr茅sent de la France du marquis d鈥橝rgenson,鈥 in 脡crire en Europe: De Leibniz 脿 Foscolo, ed. Nathalie Ferrand (Paris, CNRS 脡ditions, 2019).
- 鈥淧olitics, patronage, and peace : the correspondence of Voltaire and the Marquis d鈥橝rgenson,鈥 Revue Voltaire n掳 16 (2016): 229-40.
- 鈥淭he Transformation of Republicanism in the Sister Republics,鈥 in The Political Culture of the Sister Republics, 1794-1806 ed. Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, Erik Jacobs (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).
- 鈥淎n Unpublished Letter from the Marquis d鈥橝rgenson to Voltaire,鈥 Revue Voltaire, n掳 14 (2014): 199-213.
- 鈥1685 and the French Revolution,鈥 The French Revolution in Global Context, ed. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Nelson (Cornell University Press, 2013).
- 鈥淟iberal Republicanism after the Terror: Charles-Guillaume Th茅remin and Germaine de Sta毛l,鈥 in Puralism and the Idea of the Republic in France, ed. Stuart Jones and Julian Wright (Palgrave, 2012).
- 鈥淭he Republican Roots of Liberty in French Liberalism,鈥 in French Liberalism: From Montesquieu to the Present, ed. Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- Contribution to forum (鈥渞egards crois茅s鈥) 鈥淪i l鈥檕n parlait de la R茅publique?,鈥 Annales Historiques de la R茅volution Fran莽aise no. 364 (April-June 2011): 211-38 (with Dan Edelstein, Fr茅d茅ric R茅gent, Pierre Serna and Anne Simonin).
- 鈥淧olitical Economy, the State, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France,鈥 Modern Intellectual History, 6, no. 2 (2009): 425-444.
- Review essay of Michael Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution, and John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution.
- Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism (Cornell University Press, 2008).
- (with Samuel Moyn) 鈥淔rench Democracy between Totalitarianism and Solidarity: Pierre Rosanvallon and Revisionist Historiography,鈥 Journal of Modern History 76, no. 1 (2004): 107-154.
- 鈥淭he Constitution of the Year III and the Persistence of Classical Republicanism,鈥 French Historical Studies 26, no. 3 (2003): 399-435.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, 2014-2019
- Residential Fellowship, Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes avanc茅es de Paris, 2013-14
