Faculty Columbia : Lisa Tiersten (Associate Professor)

Lisa Tiersten received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her Ph.D. from Yale (1991). Her publications include Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France (2001); “Marianne in the Department Store: Gender and the Politics of Consumption in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,” in Cathedrals of Consumption: The European Department Store, 1859–1939, (1998); “The Chic Interior and the Feminine Modern: Home Decorating as High Art in Turn-of-the-Century Paris,” in Not At Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (1996); and “Redefining the Bourgeoisie: Recent Literature on Consumer Culture in Western Europe,” Radical History Review 57 (1993). (Barnard)