Paige Pendarvis
Visiting Assistant Professor
Paige Pendarvis
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S350
Email: paige.pendarvis@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
- M.A. University of Pennsylvania
- B.A. University of Chicago
Courses
Globalization I and II
Department
Biography
Paige Pendarvis is a historian of modern European and international history with broad interests in intellectual history, political economy, and the French and British empires. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed a dissertation about the concept of the standard of living in twentieth-century France and its empire.
Dr. Pendarvis’s book project, Necessary Luxuries, will provide a history of how people struggled with the question of whether or not societies are comparable and the political implications of deciding they were or were not, from the late-eighteenth century to the late-twentieth. Through this history of comparison and its politics, the book will explore the prolonged decoupling of the social and the economic, and its ramifications for colonial policy, postcolonial development, and western European welfare states.
Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF), the Chateaubriand Fellowship, and the American Historical Association’s Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant. She received the 2023 Edward T. Gargan Prize from the Western Society for French History.
Prior to Boston College, she was a Doctoral Fellow at Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. She was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught courses on the global history of human rights. She holds a BA in History, with a minor in Philosophy, from the University of Chicago.