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Laura Mason is Teaching Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University with a joint appointment in the Program in Film and Media Studies. Her research examines the French Revolution, focusing on cultural transformation, popular politics, violence, and media representation. She holds a PhD in History from Princeton University.
Dr. Mason's scholarship explores the radical transformation of French political culture in the late 18th century, particularly through media forms, popular radicalism, state violence, and post-Thermidor developments. Her recent book The Last Revolutionaries analyzes the 1797 conspiracy trial of Gracchus Babeuf to understand the collapse of France's first republic. She also investigates cultural expressions of revolution through song and print culture as documented in her earlier work Singing the French Revolution.
Her current research project examines atrocities in Nantes during Jean-Baptiste Carrier's tenure (1793), investigating connections between local radicals, trans-Atlantic slave trade legacies, and revolutionary violence. Dr. Mason has published in journals including Insurrect! and contributed to the Disability History Association's blog.
In her film studies role, she analyzes representations of French history, constructions of masculinity and race, and female authorship in cinema. Dr. Mason co-edited The French Revolution: A Document Collection and edits Imaginaries, an online journal reviewing creative representations of the French-speaking world.
