Fields of Expertise:
Modern France and Europe
The History of Capitalism; International Political Economy; Food and Energy Regimes
Current Project:
Bohling is currently working on a book about the restructuring of France’s energy system around nuclear power since the 1970s, and the conflicts that ensued over control of the nation’s development. By combining economic, social, and environmental history, this project engages with one of the pressing questions of our time: how to shift away from fossil fuels.
Recent Publications:
The Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018).
French edition of The Sober Revolution is forthcoming with Éditions universitaires de Dijon in 2023.
“The Oil from Our Soil: French Alcohol Fuel versus Foreign Oil, 1918-1957.” In Stephen G. Gross and Andrew Needham, eds. New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2023): 33-47.
“La Révolution sobre et l’essor des vins de qualité pendant les Trente Glorieuses en France,” in Un débat sans fin, le vin et la santé, Jocelyne Pérard and Claudine Wolikow, eds. Dijon: Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherches: sociétés, sensibilités, soin, Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, 2022. pp. 81-88.
“Colonial or Continental Power? The Debate over Economic Expansion in Interwar France, 1925-1932,” Contemporary European History 26.2 (May 2017): 217-41.
“The Mendès France Milk Regime: Alcoholism as a Problem of Agricultural Subsidies, 1954-1955,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 32.3 (Winter 2014): 97-120.
“‘Drink Better, But Less’: The Rise of France’s Appellation Wine System in the European Community, 1946-1976,” French Historical Studies 37.3 (Summer 2014): 501-30.
Bohling's shorter essays and reviews may be found in Addiction; The American Historical Review; Asian Review of World Histories; Enterprise and Society; Food and Foodways; French Politics, Culture, and Society; H-France; History: Reviews of New Books; Portland Monthly; and The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs.
Courses taught:
- HST 103, Modern Europe and the World
- HST 300, Historical Imagination
- HST 358U, Europe from National Unification to European Union
- HST 361, France and the World since 1815
- HST 370, Eurotopia: Creating and Contesting the European Union
- HST 390, Topics in World History: Energy Crises and Transitions
- HST 490/590: Comparative World History: Capitalism
- HST 491/591, Readings in World History: World of Commodities
- HST 492/592, Seminar in World History: World of Commodities