616 Serra Street, E106
Encina Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

rohsu@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2793 (voice)
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Roland Hsu is Assistant Director of the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and Lecturer in the Introduction to Humanities Program at Stanford University. His research and teaching explore the relationship between politics, art, and memory. Before coming to Stanford Dr. Hsu was Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Idaho, and Senior Associate Director of Undergraduate Advising and Research at Stanford, as well as Academic Advisor in the College of the University of Chicago. At Chicago Dr. Hsu also served as Assistant Director of the University Writing Programs. Dr. Hsu wrote his dissertation on modern European intellectual and cultural history at the University of Chicago. His most recent work on post-Revolutionary France reconsiders the use of the analytic category of memory in historical interpretation. The book manuscript in progress: Troubling Memory: Making Monuments, Tourists, and a Collective Past in Nineteenth-Century France engages scholarly literature on collective memory by reintroducing gender, work, and neighborhood network identities to differentiate the "collectivities" of collective memory. Dr. Hsu works closely with Professor Amir Eshel and the Forum staff and affiliated researchers on the design and development of research and public dissemination programs at the Forum.