Gail M. Bossenga, associate professor of history, will present the 11th annual James E. Seaver Lecture on Continuing Issues in Western Civilization at 8 p.m. Feb. 10 in Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union. Bossenga will talk on "The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Citizenship."
The lecture is free to the public. A reception will be held afterward in the union's Malott Room.
Bossenga has been a member of the KU faculty since 1987. She is a historian of modern Europe with emphasis on the French Revolution.
She received a 1997-98 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
Bossenga is the author of The Politics of Privilege: Old Regime and Revolution in Lille, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991. Her most recent book, Of Right and Rule: Origins of the French Revolution, will be published by Macmillan Press.
Bossenga's lecture is sponsored by the Humanities and Western Civilization Program.