Dr. W. Gregory Monahan, Professor (1986), early modern France, popular religion, 
      early modern and modern Europe, Latin America
    Ph.D. West Virginia University (1985), M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1977),

    B.A. University of Iowa (1975)

email: gmonahan@eou.edu

Office: 202C Ackerman Hall
Office phone: (541) 962-3707

Dr. Monahan's recent research focuses on the rebellion and war fought mostly in the mountains of the Cevennes and plains of the Vaunage in southern France from the summer of 1702 through 1704, though there were violent outbreaks before that date and recurrences afterwards. He concentrates on the interactions and lack thereof between a state which was itself still dominated by patron-client relationships and conflicts between and among its principals, and an increasingly desperate Protestant population suffused with apocalyptic prophetism and profoundly guilty at its forced abjuration in 1685. His work is based on archival research in Paris, Montpellier, Nimes, Mende, Aix, Montauban, Cahors, Geneva, Lausanne, and London as well as an extraordinary wealth of published memoirs, letters, chronicles and a lively secondary literature, much of it inextricably bound to the confessional disputes that have raged in France for the last three centuries.