A native New Yorker raised in Brooklyn, David Troyansky taught from 1984 to 2005 at Texas Tech University, where he founded the European Studies Program and a reciprocal exchange program with the Université de Limoges. A specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French history, Troyansky is the author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France (Cornell), which has been published in French as Miroirs de la vieillesse en France au siècle des lumières (ESHEL), and principal editor of The French Revolution in Culture and Society (Greenwood). He is co-editing two forthcoming volumes on transnational space and identities in the Francophone world and completing a book manuscript whose working title is "Entitlement and Complaint: Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in the French Magistracy, 1814-1853." He has also published articles on provincial culture and identities in France. Among numerous research grants, he held a Fulbright senior research fellowship at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
Selected publications:
Edited with Alfred Cismaru and Norwood Andrews, Jr. The French Revolution in Culture and Society (Greenwood Press, 1991)
Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1989)
"The Eighteenth Century," a chapter in The Long History of Old Age, edited by Pat Thane (Thames and Hudson, forthcoming)
"Personal and Institutional Narratives of Aging: A French Historical Case," in Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 2003): 31-42
"Alsatian Knowledge and European Culture: Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin, Language, and the Protestant Gymnase in Revolutionary Strasbourg," in Francia, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2000/2001): 119-138
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