Alec Slawich

Alec Slawich is a political and intellectual historian, a Ben Weider and Legacy Fellow at Florida State University, and a scholar of Revolutionary France with an emphasis on the Directory period (1795-1799). His research focuses on the intersection of power politics, cultural shifts, and social tensions in government policy and statecraft throughout early modern France and Europe at large. He is especially interested in examining the characteristics of the revolutionary process and its influence on the state’s relationship to its constituents, the function of governmental institutions, and conceptions of citizenship and the nation. His emerging dissertation, tentatively titled “The Fruit of the Coup: 18 Fructidor and Power Politics in Revolutionary France” is set to become the first comprehensive analysis of the titular coup d’etat in 1797 and of the revolutionary process within the French Directory. In 2024, Alec was a recipient of the Nancy Bautista Graduate Student Award for research excellence and received an honorable mention for the J. Leitch Wright Jr. Award for Excellence in Research in 2025. He holds a B.A in History with a minor in Secondary Education, as well as an M.A in History — with concentrations in late 18th and early 19th century France and modern Europe — from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.