Dr. Larry Stewart's Students

J. Marc MacDonald
PhD (ABD)

Dissertation Title: Crossroads of Enlightenment, 1685-1850: Exploring Scientific and Industrial Traffic Across the English Channel and Beyond

Dissertation Description: My dissertation explores the uniqueness, extent, and duration of the late Enlightenment. I focus on the Delessert family, Huguenot bankers in Paris, and their vast correspondence network. Franco-Swiss heritage bound them to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose friendship fostered passion for botany and education. The family parlayed this bond into links to the Lunar Society of Birmingham, Genevan radicals, and British reformers. This British-Franco-Swiss network transmitted Enlightenment science and industry across the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean, and beyond into the nineteenth century.

Fields of Expertise: Early Modern European and Atlantic History of Science and Industry; International Cultural Enlightenment History; Early Modern European History of Medicine; Modern Intellectual and Cultural History.

Publications:
MacDonald, J. Marc. "The Delesserts of Geneva, Lyon, Paris.and Rosendale?" Natural News. 12 no. 2, (Summer 2010): 1-7.

MacDonald, J. Marc. "'Human Experimentation, 1715-1972'. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada October 23, 2009." Gazette (Society for the Social History of Medicine). No. 50, (April 2010): 4-5.

MacDonald, J. Marc. The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity and Health Crisis in Revolutionary France c. 1750-1850, by Sean M. Quinlan. French History 23 no. 2 (2009): 274.

MacDonald, J. Marc. Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor, by Tim McHugh. French History 23 no. 2 (2009): 275-6.

Select Conference Presentations:
"Meteorites and Septuagenarians: The Brevity and Longevity of Enlightenment Lives," MOMS-SSHM Connections and Communities in Health and Medicine, 2013. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 13 September 2013.

"Enlightenment Nexus: The Delesserts' British-Franco-Swiss Network and its Dissemination of International Science." L'histoire des sciences « par en bas » History of Science from Below. Université du Maine, Le Mans, France. 7 June 2013.

"United by Science and Harried by Revolution: Thomas Beddoes' Swiss Friends at Edinburgh." Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science 2013, Session III "A Chemical Enlightenment," The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia. 4 June 2013.

"Quiet Cultivators of Late Enlightenment Gardens: International Traffic and The Delesserts as a Challenge to Insular Interpretations." Alternative Enlightenments: An interdisciplinary conference in the humanities. Bilkent University. Ankara, Turkey. 27 April 2013.

"L'hôtel Delessert, 1801-2: The Actualization of Networks in the Twilight of the Enlightenment." Situating Early Modern Science Networks workshop. Diefenbaker Centre, University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 14 April 2012.

Email: jmm328@mail.usask.ca