College of Liberal Arts - College of Liberal Arts

  • Associate Professor Modern History (Europe)
  • KIM, MIN CHUL

Research Interest

 intellectual history, French Revolution, political economy, democracy, republicanism

Education

  • (Ph.D) School of History, University of St Andrews
  • (M.A.) Dept. of Western History, Seoul National University
  • (B.A.) Dept. of Western History, Seoul National University

Experience

  • Lecturer, Dept. of History, Ewha Womans University : 2019
  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Sungkyunkwan University : 2019-2025
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Sungkyunkwan University : 2025-current
  • Editorial Board, History of European Ideas : 2024-current
  • Editorial Board, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment : 2023-2025
  • Scholarly Advisory Board, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment : 2026-current
  • Research Fellow, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford : 2023-current
  • International Board, Institute of Intellectual History, St Andrews : 2023-current
  • Director, Global Intellectual History Unit : 2022-current
  • Member of the board (research), Suseon Society for Historical Studies : 2020-current
  • Member of the board (research), Société coréenne d'histoire française : 2020-2024
  • Member of the board (editor), Société coréenne d'histoire française : 2024-current

Journal Articles

  • (2026)  Commerce and Peace in the French Revolution: Rougier-Labergerie's International Political Economy.  JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT.  48, 
  • (2025)  William Godwin on Democracy: The Time-Regime of Political Thought in the Age of Revolutions.  MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY.  23, 
  • (2025)  Political Equality and Economic Inequality in Étienne-Géry Lenglet’s Recipe for the Modern Republic.  HISTORICAL JOURNAL.  69, 
  • (2025)  프랑스혁명과 언론의 자유 : 총재정부기 신문 규제 논쟁.  서양사론.  166
  • (2025)  Jean-Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France.  HISTORY.  111,  393
  • (2024)  Bordeaux and Abolitionism in Revolutionary France: The Case of André-Daniel Laffon de Ladébat and the Girondins.  French Studies Bulletin.  45,  171
  • (2024)  Sophie de Grouchy's Political Thought in the Letters on Sympathy (1798).  JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS.  85,  2
  • (2024)  Theories of Representative Government against Democracy during the French Revolution.  HISTORIAN.  84,  4
  • (2022)  THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEMOCRACY IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: PUBLICOLA CHAUSSARD AND THE DEMOCRATS UNDER THE DIRECTORY.  HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT.  43,  4
  • (2020)  루소의 사회계약 이론에 대한 역사적 독해.  역사비평.  131
  • (2020)  분류하고 저장하고 기억하기 : 프랑스혁명과 아카이브.  역사학보.  245
  • (2019)  프랑스혁명과 1798년 국민개병제 법안.  서양사론.  143,  143
  • (2019)  Démocratiser le gouvernement représentatif? La pensée politique d'Antoine Français de Nantes sous le Directoire.  ANNALES HISTORIQUES DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE.  396, 
  • (2019)  Condorcet and the Viability of Democracy in Modern Republics, 1789-1794.  EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY.  49,  2
  • (2018)  The Historical Politics of Volney’s Leçons d'histoire (1795).  FRENCH STUDIES BULLETIN.  39,  148
  • (2018)  Sociability, Natural Jurisprudence, and Republicanism in the French Revolution : Jean-Baptiste Salaville's Empiricist Science of the Legislator.  FRENCH STUDIES.  72,  4
  • (2018)  Pierre-Antoine Antonelle and Representative Democracy in the French Revolution.  HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS.  44,  3
  • (2018)  Volney and the French Revolution.  JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS.  79,  2
  • (2016)  Republicanism in the Age of Commerce and Revolutions : Barère's Reading of Montesquieu.  FRENCH HISTORY.  30,  3

Publications

  • (2025)  상업사회의 정치사상 : 루소와 스미스로 읽는 18세기 지성사.  오월의봄.  Solo
  • (2023)  누가 민주주의를 두려워하는가 : 지성사로 보는 민주주의 혐오의 역사 (2023년 세종도서 선정).  창비.  Solo
  • (2022)  예카테리나 서한집 (Letters of Catherine the Great).  읻다.  Lead author
  • (2020)  인간 볼테르 : 계몽의 시인, 관용의 투사.  후마니타스.  Solo
  • (2018)  계몽사상의 유토피아와 개혁 : 철학이 아닌 역사로 밝힌 18세기 계몽사상.  글항아리.  Solo
  • (2013)  무엇을 위하여 혁명을 하는가 : 끝나지 않은 프랑스혁명.  두더지.  Co-author
  • (2011)  캘리번과 마녀 : 여성, 신체 그리고 시초축적.  갈무리.  Co-author

Conference Paper

  • (2026)  A Democrat's View on Political Equality and Economic Inequality in the French Revolution.  Keio University History of Economic Thought Workshop.  JAPAN
  • (2026)  William Godwin's Idea of Democracy in the Time-Regime of Perfection and Progress.  British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 55th Annual Conference: Big and Small.  UNITED KINGDOM
  • (2025)  William Godwin's Time-Regime and the Idea of Democracy in the Age of Revolutions.  Learning from the Past: Historical Insights for Political Theory (CEACOP).  HONG KONG
  • (2024)  The Jacobin View of Roman History and the Question of War and Patriotism in the French Revolution.  The 7th Colloquium of the East Asian Intellectual History Network: War and Peace.  TAIWAN
  • (2024)  Sophie de Grouchy's Natural Jurisprudence and the French Republic.  Human Nature: Humans and Nature in the History of Political Thought.  AUSTRIA
  • (2024)  Étienne-Géry Lenglet and the Political Economy of Equality for the Modern Republic.  Oxford Enlightenment Workshop 2023-24.  UNITED KINGDOM
  • (2023)  The Natural Jurisprudence of Sophie de Grouchy in the French Revolution.  The 6th Colloquium of the East Asian Intellectual History Network: History, Sociability, and Plurality.  TAIWAN
  • (2023)  The French Revolution and the Political Economy of Commerce and Peace.  The 4th Colloquium of the East Asian Intellectual History Network: Cosmopolitanism of European Enlightenments.  JAPAN
  • (2021)  Montesquieu in the French Revolution: a brief discussion of a reception history.  Montesquieu et l'Asie: Traductions, circulations et usages de L'Esprit des lois hors d'Europe occidentale.  FRANCE
  • (2019)  Commerce and Peace in the French Revolution : Jean-Baptiste Rougier-Labergerie's Political Economy.  Cosmopolitismes et patriotismes au temps des Révolutions.  FRANCE
  • (2018)  Society, Property and Liberty : The Natural Jurisprudence of Jean-Baptiste Salaville.  International Society for Intellectual History, Annual Conference 2018 : Borders, Boundaries, Limits.  UNITED KINGDOM
  • (2017)  Laffon de Ladebat's Abolitionism in the "Bourgeois Revolution" of Bordeaux.  Social History Society, Annual Conference 2017.  UNITED KINGDOM
  • (2017)  Volney Reconsidered : Travels, the Enlightenment Narrative and the French Revolution.  British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 46th Annual Conference.  UNITED KINGDOM
  • (2016)  The Radical Escape from Social Contract in the French Revolution : Jean-Baptiste Salaville's Republican Theory of Natural Sociability.  Historical Perspectives, Seminar Series 2016-2017.  UNITED KINGDOM
  • (2016)  Republicanism in the Age of Commerce and Revolutions : Barère's Reading of Montesquieu.  Historical Perspectives, Annual Conference 2016 : Hidden Histories and Untold Stories.  UNITED KINGDOM

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