IN 2005 ELLIOTT Associate Professor of History Robert H. Blackman presented a paper, “Adrift Between Scylla and Charybdis: Defining and Defending the Revolution during the King’s Veto Debate of Summer 1789” at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History in Colorado Springs; and at the 2006 meeting in Long Beach, California, he gave “What does a deputy to the National Assembly owe his constituents? Coming to an agreement on the meaning of electoral mandates in July 1789.”

He also saw through to final publication his articles “What’s in a Name? Possible Names for a Legislative Body and the Birth of National Sovereignty during the French Revolution, 15-16 June 1789,” appearing in the Oxford University Press journal French History 21:1 (March 2007) and “What was ‘absolute’ about the ‘absolute veto’? Ideas of national sovereignty and royal power in September 1789,” appearing in the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 32.

Blackman recently received notice that his article on the “Civil Constitution of the Clergy” had been accepted for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, set for publication in 2008.

Blackman, who began teaching at the College in 2000 and was promoted to his present rank last spring, holds a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. In 2006 he received a John Brooks Fuqua Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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