Faculty/Staff

• Associate Professor, History

First Year at Xavier University:

2005

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Yale University, Department of History, 2005
• B.A., Indiana University, History and French, Honors, with High Distinction, 1999

Work Experience:

• Associate Professor, Xavier University, Department of History, 2011-present
• Assistant Professor, Xavier University, Department of History, 2005-2011

Publications:

• The Siege of Strasbourg: War and Humanity at the Crossroads of Europe (under contract to Harvard University Press)
• Organizing for War: France, 1870-1914 (Louisiana State University Press, 2010)
• “The French Red Cross, War Readiness, and Civil Society, 1866-1914.” French Historical Studies, 31, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 445-76

Awards, Honors, & Certifications:

• U.S. Fulbright Scholar: Fulbright-Alsace Regional Council Award for research in Strasbourg, 2009.
• Commendation by the Jury for the Malcolm Bowie Prize, “The French Red Cross, War Readiness, and Civil Society, 1866-1914,” The Society for French Studies, 2008.

Biography:

 Rachel Chrastil’s courses include the Great War, the French Revolution and the European history survey. She has also taught a seminar on nineteenth-century Paris for Xavier’s Summer Honors Program in the City of Light itself. Her courses analyze the actions of ordinary people as well as the work of prominent intellectual, political and cultural figures.

Chrastil’s book Organizing for War: France 1870-1914 (Louisiana State University Press, 2010) examines civil society’s role in preparing France for World War I.

Her current book project is The Siege of Strasbourg: War and Humanity at the Crossroads of Europe (under contract to Harvard University Press). For this project she won a Fulbright-Alsace Regional Council Award, which allowed her to research in Strasbourg, France.

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