PHD Program:
Social and Political Thought
Major Publications:
"Locke's Children," Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 4, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 382-402.
“World Contexts,” in A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800), ed. James Marten and Elizabeth Foyster (Oxford: Berg, 2010), 185-204.
Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment
in the Study of Human Nature. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 2006.
"The Doctor and the Child: Medical Preservation and Management of
Children in the Eighteenth Century." In Fashioning Childhood in the
Eighteenth Century: Age and Identity. Ed. Anja Müller. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2006, 13-24.
"Childhood, the Sciences of Childhood, and the History of Science." In
Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child Across Time,
Space, and Disciplines. Ed. Hillel Goelman, Sheila K. Marshall and
Sally Ross. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, 14-37.
"Childhood, Identity, and Human Science in the Enlightenment." History
Workshop Journal 57 (Spring 2004): 34-57.
"Kamala of Midnapore and Arnold Gesell’s Wolf Child and Human Child:
Reconciling the Extraordinary and the Normal." History of Psychology 4,
no. 1 (2001): 59-78.
"Freud, Little Hans, and the Desire for Knowledge." Journal of
Curriculum Theorizing 14, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 43-52.
Membre des sociétés académiques:
American Historical Association;
History of Science Society; Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies; Cheiron, International Society for the History of Behavioral
and Social Sciences.
Courses Taught:
Dr. Benzaquén teaches early modern European history, intellectual and cultural history, the history of science, and the history of women. She regularly offers these courses:
Europe from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution;
Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;
Social History of European Women;
Gender in Historical Perspective: Childhood, Family and Private Life in Early Modern Europe;
Centuries of Change: Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era;
Culture, Society and Belief in Early Modern Europe (on the early modern witch-hunts and the Scientific Revolution;
History Seminar (Europe)Childhood, Family and Private Life in Early Modern Europe.
