Chris Otter at Ohio State University has recently written a book called The
Victorian Eye. Not in the exact area in which you want to study by any
means, but he's a historian using Foucault. I'd suggest checking his book
out.
http://humanities.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2963
joshua j. kurz
PhD Student, Cultural Foundations of Education
President, Graduate Employees' Student Organization
The Ohio State University
159 Ramseyer Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
no trees were harmed in the sending of this email, but trillions of
electrons were severely inconvenienced...
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mehmet Kentel <mehmet.kentel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to find an appropriate department of history where I can study
> (as a PhD) history of games and play in 18th-19th century, and follow the
> transformation (systematization, classification and commodification) that
> games had experienced in the context of modernity. I want my study to be
> both a historical analysis and a critique of modernity, in the line more or
> less conducted by Foucault and others. Do you know (or are you part of) any
> departments of history, preferably in US, in which a Foucauldian approach
> to
> history and modernity is predominant or in which there are good historians
> who value and use Foucault's works?
>
> I am open and grateful to any suggestions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mehmet Kentel
>
> Boğaziçi University - Political Science - History (Double Major)
> Istanbul
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
Victorian Eye. Not in the exact area in which you want to study by any
means, but he's a historian using Foucault. I'd suggest checking his book
out.
http://humanities.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2963
joshua j. kurz
PhD Student, Cultural Foundations of Education
President, Graduate Employees' Student Organization
The Ohio State University
159 Ramseyer Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
no trees were harmed in the sending of this email, but trillions of
electrons were severely inconvenienced...
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mehmet Kentel <mehmet.kentel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to find an appropriate department of history where I can study
> (as a PhD) history of games and play in 18th-19th century, and follow the
> transformation (systematization, classification and commodification) that
> games had experienced in the context of modernity. I want my study to be
> both a historical analysis and a critique of modernity, in the line more or
> less conducted by Foucault and others. Do you know (or are you part of) any
> departments of history, preferably in US, in which a Foucauldian approach
> to
> history and modernity is predominant or in which there are good historians
> who value and use Foucault's works?
>
> I am open and grateful to any suggestions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mehmet Kentel
>
> Boğaziçi University - Political Science - History (Double Major)
> Istanbul
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list