Professor of History
Office: 213 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-3562
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Margaret.Darrow@Dartmouth.edu
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Margaret Darrow is a modern European historian specializing in French social and women's history. Recently her work has focused on women and war specifically French women in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War. After receiving her PhD from Rutgers University, she joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1980. Her first book, Revolution in the House; Family, Class and Inheritance in Southern France, 1775-1825 (Princeton University Press, 1989) is a study of the impact of the French Revolution upon family relationships and practices, especially marriage and inheritance. Since that book, her research has moved a century forward and has resulted recently in the publication of French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front (Berg, 2000). Next year, Professor Darrow will spend six months in France, researching women's patriotism and citizenship at the end of the nineteenth century. Besides her on-going interest in French society, Professor Darrow has become fascinated by Turkey after teaching at Ko University in Istanbul in 2000-01. She is exploring research projects for the future that link France and Turkey such as immigration, education and secularism. Professor Darrow is also a member of the faculty of the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
