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Ralph Kingston is an Associate Professor of European History specializing in 18th- and 19th-century France at Auburn University’s Department of History within the College of Liberal Arts. His research focuses on cultural, intellectual, and social histories, particularly the intersections of administrative culture, material history, and spatial politics. He holds a PhD from University College London and a BA from Trinity College Dublin.
His major works include the book Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society (2012), examining administrative changes during France’s Revolutionary era, and a forthcoming project on scientific expeditions in the 18th-19th centuries. He has received the 2008 Percy V. Adams Prize for his article on Revolutionary office spaces in French History.
Kingston’s research incorporates digital history methods, collaborating with Auburn’s digital librarians to create a portal for studying Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition. He teaches courses on European history, including graduate seminars on science and society, the French Revolution, and spatial history. He advises students on topics like 19th-century urban politics and revolutionary archives.
His publications span topics from Revolutionary-era bureaucracy to 19th-century scientific expeditions, reflecting his expertise in material culture, spatial analysis, and interdisciplinary historical methodologies.
