W. Scott Haine
History
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, I received my BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and my MA and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1976-84). My teaching experience includes the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1984), the University of South Alabama (1985-88), The American University (1988-93), and Holy Names College (1996-present). I have also been I have been teaching at Cañada College and College of San Mateo since 2002.
Throughout my intellectual career, I have studied the history of community life. My main interest in this work was the notion of community expressed in the life and writings of the great eighteenth-century political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. My Ph.D. dissertation (and first book) concerned nineteenth-century working-class cafés in Paris (1996, paperback 1998). I have also written on various interrelated topics, such as the history of childhood and adolescence ("The Leisure and Games of French Adolescents: The Case of Paris, 1840-1940," Journal of Family History, Fall 1992), and the history of street life and city space (in Peter N. Stearns, Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of European Social History, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001).
In 2000, I published a history of France for Greenwood Press and in 2006, also for Greenzood, a volume in their book series, The Culture and Customs of Modern Nations, a volume on France. I am now getting to close to finishing another book on the cafes of the Paris region, this one dealing with the 1930s through the 1940s. I am also coediting a volume on cafe life and intellectual culture in Europe that should appear with Northern Illinois University Press within the next two years.
Other scholarly activities and interests include editing and course development. As editor (since 1994; coeditor beginning 2000, and since 2004, an associate editor), I have been part of The Social History of Alcohol Review (now renamed The Social history of Alcohol and Drugs, a publication of the Alcohol Temperance History Group (now The Alchol and Drugs History Group). I have also been developing, in a variety of contexts, a new historical topic, the history of the body. I gave a Lecture Series on this topic--"The Mind/Body Relation in Western Thought: A Dual Perception"--at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, in their Campus on the Mall Series (July-August 1993), and have taught a related course at Holy Names College.
The history of the body is a research interest I plan to pursue in the future. Specifically, I plan to complete a book on the questions of the interrelationship between body, race, and mind in European history. My professional work has always been concerned with sociability and urban life in all its myriad forms as well as the mind/body relationship. I integrate these concerns into my course whenever appropriate.
