LISA S. TIERSTEN
Department of History
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-6598
(212) 854-4733
e-mail: ltiersten@barnard.columbia.edu

EDUCATION

1991                Ph.D.  History, Yale University
1985                M.A.   History, Yale University
1979                B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 EMPLOYMENT

1993-                Assistant Professor of European History, Barnard College, Columbia University        
1991-92            Visiting Assistant Professor of European History, Wellesley College

PUBLICATIONS

Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siècle France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

 “Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,” Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1850-1939, ed.s. Geoffrey Crossick and Serge Jaumain (Ashcroft Press, 1999).

 “Consumer Culture and the European Bourgeoisie,” Il Bollettino del diciannovesimo secolo (Spring 1997).

 “The Chic Interior, the Feminine Modern, and the Rehabilitation of Bourgeois Taste: Home Decorating as High Art in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,” Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, ed. Christopher Reed (Thames and Hudson, 1996).

 “Redefining the Bourgeoisie: Recent Literature on Consumer Culture in Western Europe,” Radical History Review, vol. 57 (Fall 1993): 116-159.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Book Project: “Terms of Trade: Business Culture in Third Republic France.”

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