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John F. Sweets
Professor Emeritus of Hist.. (Ph.D. Duke, 1972; B.A. Florida State). Modern European History, 19th- and 20th-century French social and political history, Vichy, the Resistance, and Occupied France.
Prof. Sweets has been at the University of Kansas since 1972, and taught as visiting professor at University College, Dublin (Ireland), The School of International Studies (Fort Bragg, NC), and at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon (France). Professor Sweets has received two NEH Fellowships for his research and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is author of The Politics of Resistance in France (1976), Choices in Vichy France (1986) -- French version, Clermont-Ferrand à l'heure allemande (1996), and has edited four volumes of The Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (1982-85). He is currently collaborating with a French colleague, François Marcot, on a new study of Vichy France to be published by Macmillan Press. His other current research interests are a case study of the Lacemakers of Le Puy in the 19th century and an investigation of France and the Holocaust. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 19th and 20th-century Europe and on France since the French Revolution.
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