Carl A. Brasseaux
{{Short description|American historian and educator}}
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Carl Anthony Brasseaux (pseudonym: Antoine Bourque; born August 19, 1951){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pa3iAAAAMAAJ|title=Contemporary Authors, Volume 143|publisher=Gale Research Company|year=1994|isbn=978-0-8103-5554-5|pages=47|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Brasseaux, Carl A(nthony)|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/brasseaux-carl-anthony|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Encyclopedia.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227050627/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/brasseaux-carl-anthony |archive-date=2021-02-27 }} is an American historian and educator. He specialized in French Colonial North America, particularly of Louisiana and the Cajun people. He helped to pioneer the field of Cajun history, and his published works on this topic represent the first serious, in-depth examination of the history of the ethnic group.
He taught at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from 1975 until 2010.
Early life and education
Brasseaux was born on August 19, 1951, in Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish, in southern Louisiana. He is Cajun{{Cite news|last=Harden|first=Blaine|date=2002-09-30|title=Born on the Bayou And Barely Feeling Any Urge to Roam|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/us/born-on-the-bayou-and-barely-feeling-any-urge-to-roam.html|access-date=2021-05-15|issn=0362-4331}} and grew up in the town of Sunset, Louisiana.
He received both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana). He obtained his doctorate in North American studies at the Paris Diderot University."Brasseaux among Top USL Honorees," Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La.), 23 April 1995.{{Cite web|date=2014-07-14|title=Acadian history owes thanks to historian Carl Brasseaux|url=https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2014/07/14/acadian-history-owes-thanks-historian-carl-brasseaux/12654969/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=The Daily Advertiser|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125151702/https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2014/07/14/acadian-history-owes-thanks-historian-carl-brasseaux/12654969/ |archive-date=2020-11-25 }}
Career
Brasseaux served at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1975 until 2010; where his roles at the university included the assistant director of Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism, from 1975 to 2001, and as director from 2001 to 2010; as the curator of colonial records collection from 1980 to 2010; an adjunct assistant professor from 1987 to 1990; assistant professor from 1990 to 1998; and a professor of history from 1998 to 2010.
At the Center for Louisiana Studies, Brasseaux was involved with Louisiana Digital Folklore Archive. This large collection includes the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore, which is regarded as the largest compilation of media resources pertaining to these two south Louisiana ethnic groups.
Awards and honors
In 1991, the French government awarded Brasseaux the title of Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, an honor reserved for those whose scholarly pursuits are deemed to contribute significantly to French culture.
Brasseaux received the 2003 Louisiana Writer Award for his enduring contribution to the "literary intellectual heritage of Louisiana."{{Cite web|url=http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/LWA_carl_brasseaux.html|title=LWA Carl Brasseaux|last=|first=|date=|website=Louisiana Book Festival|language=en|access-date=2018-04-06}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.state.lib.la.us:80/la_dyn_templ.cfm?doc_id=18|title=Center for the Book - Louisiana Writer Award|website=State Library of Louisiana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040803182851/http://www.state.lib.la.us/la_dyn_templ.cfm?doc_id=18|archive-date=2004-08-03|url-status=live|access-date=2018-04-06}} The award was presented to him by then Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco, on November 8, 2003, at a ceremony held at the 2nd annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge.
Bibliography
Brasseaux has published more than 30 books, many of which are history-related, including those listed below. He has also written fiction under the pseudonym Antoine Bourque.
- {{Cite book|last=Brasseaux|first=Carl A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3xaRPSluLsC|title=The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803|publisher=Louisiana State University (LSU) Press|year=1987|isbn=9780807141632|location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana}}
- {{Cite book|last=Bourque|first=Antoine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OisOQAACAAJ|title=Trois Saisons: contes, nouvelles et fables de Louisiane|publisher=L. Courteau|year=1988|isbn=9780940984394}}
- {{Cite book|last=Brasseaux|first=Carl A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kU4TAAAAYAAJ|title="Scattered to the Wind": Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians, 1755–1809|publisher=University of Southwestern Louisiana|year=1991|isbn=9780940984707|location=Lafayette, Louisiana}}
- {{Cite book|last=Brasseaux|first=Carl A.|title=Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803–1877|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=1992|isbn=978-0878055838|location=Jackson, Miss.}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Brasseaux|first1=Carl A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXT94e2A6bIC|title=Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country|last2=Fontenot|first2=Keith|last3=Oubre|first3=Claude F.|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|others=Clifton Carmen (contribution)|year=1994|isbn=9780878057146|location=Jackson, Miss.}}
- {{Cite book|last=Brasseaux|first=Carl A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2IAZ7563soC|title=French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana|publisher=Louisiana State University (LSU) Press|year=2005|isbn=9780807130360|location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Bienvenu|first1=Marcelle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGnt3Bb_VeYC|title=Stir the Pot: A History of Cajun Cuisine|last2=Brasseaux|first2=Carl A.|last3=Brasseaux|first3=Ryan A.|publisher=Hippocrene Books|year=2005|isbn=9780781811200|author-link3=Ryan Brasseaux}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://ccet.louisiana.edu/ Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism]
- [http://ccet.louisiana.edu/91.0%20Folklore_Archives/%20Historical_Background.html Historical Background of the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore]
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Category:21st-century American historians
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Category:University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
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Category:Paris Diderot University alumni
Category:People from Opelousas, Louisiana
Category:Writers from Lafayette, Louisiana
Category:People from Sunset, Louisiana