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Mary Louise Roberts
Address:
Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3211 Humanities, 455 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1483
(H): (608)-238-7062
(C): (608)-358-0448
[email protected]
Education:
1990
1980
1977
Brown University, Ph.D, History
Sarah Lawrence College, M.A., Women’s History
Wesleyan University, B.A., History, (Degree Magna Cum Laude)
Academic Positions:
2002 -1997-2002
1990-1997
1985-90
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University
Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Brown University
Fellowships, Research Awards and Research Grants:
Senior Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2010-2014
Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin, Spring 2010
Center for European Studies Research Grant, 2009
Feminist Scholars Award, Women’s Studies Research Center, Spring 2009
Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Research Grant, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Grant, 2008-2009
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007-2008
Vilas Associateship Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 2005-2007
Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Spring 2005
Stanford Office of Technology Licensing Research Grant, Spring 2000-2001
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, 1999-2000
Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University 1998-99
Stanford Humanties Center Fellowship, 1994-1995
American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship, 1994-1995
Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender Fellowship, 1993-1994
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel-to-Collections Award, 1992 and 1993
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Award, 1992
Social Science Research Council Fellowship, Western European Dissertation Competition, 1988-89
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Mrs. Roy O'Connor Tocqueville Fellowship in Modern French History, 1988-1989
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, Paris, France, 1987-1988
Pre-dissertation Fellowship, Council for European Studies, Columbia University, 1986
University Fellowship, History, Brown University, 1984-85
Teaching Awards and Other Honors:
Honorable Mention, Koren Prize, Society for French Historical Studies, “The Silver Foxhole: The
GIs and Prostitiution in Paris, 1944-1946,” 2011
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin, 2008
Karen F. Johnson Outstanding Teacher Award, History Department, University of Wisconsin,
December 2005
Panhellenic Association Teacher Appreciation, University of Wisconsin, Spring 2003
Walter J. Gore Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University, 1999
Stanford University Fellow, 1998-99
The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Civilization Without Sexes, Best Book in Women's History, 1994,
American Historical Association, 1995
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 1994
The Vartan Gregorian Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University, 1989
Distinction, Oral Exams, Brown University 1987
G.D. Robins Faculty Prize for Excellence in History, Wesleyan University, 1977
Publications: Books
Foreign Affairs: Sex, Power and the American G.I. in France, 1944-1946, University of Chicago Press,
forthcoming 2013.
Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siècle France, University of Chicago Press, 2002; paperback
version, 2005.
Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Post-war France, 1918-1928, Women in Culture and
Society Series, edited by Catherine Stimpson, University of Chicago Press, 1994
Reprinted electronically as part of the ACLS E-Book Project
Publications: Articles and Review Essays:
Co-Editor, with Paul Friedland, Special issue of French Historical Studies, “Theorized History,”
forthcoming, March 2012
“Out of their Orbit: Celebrity and Eccentricity in Nineteenth Century France,” The Question of Gender:
Joan W. Scott’s Critical Feminism, eds. Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed, (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2011), 50-79.
“The Price of Discretion: Prostitution, Venereal Disease and the American Military in France, 19441946,” American Historical Review, 115, no. 4 (October 2010):1002-1030.
“Rethinking Female Celebrity: The Eccentric Star in Nineteenth Century France,” Charisma, Fame,
and Celebrity during the Long 19th Century, eds. Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi, (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2010), 103-116.
“The Silver Foxhole: Prostitution in Paris, 1944-1945,” French Historical Studies, 33: 1 (Winter
2010), 99-128.
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“Wartime Flânerie: The Zucca Controversy” French Politics, Culture & Society, Vol. 27, no. 1, Spring
2009, 102-110. [About a controversial 2008 exhibit in Paris concerning the city during
WWII]
“En Lisant les thèses et les HDR, De la gestion à la citoyenneté. Une Histoire sociale de la
consommation contemporaine de Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel,” Entreprises et Histoires, no. 55,
June 2009, 9-13.
“Photographier le G.I.: eroticisme et photojournalisme en France pendant la Seconde Guerre
Mondiale, ” Rretour à l’intime au sortir de la guerre: De la Première Guerre mondiale à nos jours (Paris:
Editions Tallandier, 2009), 259-278.
“The Frondeuse: Making the Modern Girl French,” The Modern Girl Around the World:
Globalization, Modernity, and Consumption, eds. Uta Poiger et al, Duke University Press, 2009
77-95.
“Tears at the Heart of Spectacular Paris: Rouault’s Prostitutes,” Mystique Masque: Semblance and Reality
in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958, ed. Stephen Schloesser (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art,
2008), 117-124.
“De Quelques Synthèse récentes sur l’Histoire des Femmes Européenes: Coup d’Oeil sur un
Domaine Nouveau,” Clio: Histoire, Femmes,Sociétes, 27 (2008): 267-76.
“The Manly G.I. Photograph and the Memory of the Second World War,” [in Hebrew: “Mithos
Ha’chayal Ha’gavri: Gender ve Tazlumei Itonut Be’Milchemet Ha’Olam Ha’Shniya”], Tabur:
Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought, 1 (2008): 108-122.
“Le mythe du G.I. viril: Genre et photojournalisme en France pendant la seconde guerre
mondiale,” Le Mouvement social, no. 217, Avril-Juin 2007, 35-56.
“The Transnationalization of Gender History,” History and Theory, Vol. 44 Issue 3 (October 2005),
456-468.
“Pauvres étrangers que nous sommes! Les hommes et les femmes dans la première guerre
mondiale,” Guerre, Paix et Société en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et au Japon au cours du premier XXe
siècle, François Guedj, ed., Éditions de l'Atelier, 2004, 132-141.
“The Troubles of a Mere Blank,” (on Mary Wollstonecraft) Journal of Women’s History, June 2004,
177-187.
"Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Fashion in 1920s France," revised and reprinted in
The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars, Rutgers University Press, 2003, 65-94.
“True Womanhood Revisited” Journal of Women’s History, Spring 2003, 150-155.
"The Dead and the Unborn: French Pronatalism and the Abortion Law of 1920," in Modernity,
Violence and Population Policies, ed. Amir Weiner , Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002,
91-101.
"Acting Up: The Theatrics of Marguerite Durand," French Historical Studies, Vol. 24, 1 (Fall 1996)
reprinted in New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France, ed. Joby
Margadant, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 171-217
"Subversive Copy: Feminist Journalism in Fin-de-siècle France," in Making the News: Modernity and the
Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France , Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press,1999,
302-350.
"Gender, Consumerism and Commodity Culture,"American Historical Review, 103 (June 1998), 817844.
"Only Questions to Offer," Journal of Women's History, Review Essay on Joan Scott’s Only Paradoxes
to Offer, and other recent gender history texts, Fall 1998, 171-181
"Copie subversive: Le Journalisme féministe en France à la fin du siècle dernier," Clio: Histoires,
femmes et sociétés, Fall 1997, 230-249.
"Prêt-à-déchiffrer: La Mode d'après-guerre et le "New Cultural History," Le Mouvement Social, No.
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174 January-March 1996, 57-73.
"Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Fashion in 1920s France," American Historical Review,
98, 3 June 1993, 657-683.
"Rationalization, Vocational Guidance and the Reconstruction of Female Identity in Post-war
France during the 1920s," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 36 Fall 1993, 367381.
"This Civilization No Longer Has Sexes: “La Garçonne and Gender Ambiguity in Postwar France,"
Gender and History, 4,1 Spring, 1992, 49-69.
"Simone de Beauvoir: Coming of Age in the Twenties," Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Volume 8, 1991,
83-91.
Publications: Book Reviews
Review of Fabrice Virgili, Enfant d’ennemi: Les enfants de couples franco-allemands nés pendant la Seconde
Guerre mondiale in Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, forthcoming summer 2011.
Review of Andrew Knapp, The Uncertain Foundation: France at the Liberation, 1944-1947 in French
History, Winter 2010
Review of Liz Conor The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s in South Central
Review, Fall 2005.
Review of Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-deSiècle by Lenard Berlanstein, Journal of Modern History, Winter 2004
Review of Un Siècle d'antiféminisme by Christine Bard, Le Mouvement social, Spring 2001
Review of Chrysalides by Anne-Marie Sohn, Journal of Social History, Spring 1998
Review of The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky, Journal of Social
History, Fall 1995.
Review of Riddles of Identity in Modern Times, eds. Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, Volume Five of
A History of Private Life, eds. Georges Duby and Philippe Ariés, Journal of Modern History,
March 1994.
Review of The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism by Gwendolyn Wright
Journal of Modern History, December 1994.
Other publications :
Preface, Laura Moore, Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries
in France, 1820-1870, Library Juice Press, 2008.
Contributor, Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press, 2007
Excerpt of Civilization without Sexes, "The Ironies of Sex Education: The French Case," The Oxford
Readers: Sexuality, ed. Robert Nye Oxford University Press, 1999
Excerpt of "Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Fashion in 1920s France" The Other Side of
Western Civilization, ed. Peter Stearns, Volume Two, 6th edition, Harcourt Brace and World,
1999
Excerpt of "Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Fashion in 1920s France" in A Short
Guide to Writing About History, Harper Collins College Publishers, 1995; reprint 2002.
"Relating to Theory: Examine Your Own Prejudices," Mistakes that Social Scientists Make, St. Martin's
Press, 1995
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Invited Papers, Seminars and Addresses
Hollins College, History Department, February 2011
Stanford University, Mellon Workshop on French culture, January 2011
Purdue University, John F. Stover Lecture, April 2010
University of North Carolina Charlotte, Keynote Graduate History Forum, March 2010
École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales, Member of Jury, “De la Gestion à la Citoyenneté.
Une Histoire sociale de la consommation contemporaine,” Marie Chessel, March 2009
International Programs, University of Iowa, February 2009
North Carolina Research Triangle Area, French Culture and European Intellectual History Groups,
January 2009
Duke University, John Hope Franklin Institute, Mellon Seminar on Anna Krylova’s Women in
Combat, January 2009
“Le Retour à l’intime au sortir de la guerre, de la première guerre mondiale à nos jours,” Colloque
Internationale, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, June 2008
University of Minnesota, History Department, April 2008
Harvard University, Center for European Studies, March 2008
Boston University, History Department, March 2008
École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales, Colloquium on Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Finde-siècle France. “Un acte perturbateur ? L’utilisation de Judith Butler pour écrire
l’histoire,” November 2007.
Yale University, History Department, March 2007
Wisconsin Veterans Museum, October 2006
Oberlin College, History Department, May 2006
Northwestern University, History Department, April 2006
Chicago Historical Society, January 2006
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Visiting Professor, January 2006
Hebrew University, History Department, June 2005
Princeton University, “Women Writers and Politics” Conference, April 2005
Scripps College, History Department, April 2005
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, Keynote
Speaker, Culture Bound Symposium, October 2004
Fashion Institute of Technology, “Fashioning the Modern Woman: Couture & Culture in Paris,
1919-1939,” February 2004
University of Washington,“Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Modern Girl Around the World,” May
2003
University of Memphis, Sesquecentennial Lecture, April 2003
Fashion Institute for Technology, “Femme Fatale: Fashion and Visual Culture in Fin-de-Siècle
Paris” Symposium, January 2003
University of Connecticut, Storrs, History Department, November 2002
Stanford University, Advanced Placement History College, July 2002
University of Washington, “Urban Spaces” conference, May 2002
Santa Clara College, History Department, May 2002
Stanford University, Faculty lecturer, Seminar in Provence and Burgundy, Travel/Study Program,
October 2001
Stanford University, “Paris in the 1860s,” Continuing Education Lecture, November 2001
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Wesleyan University Humanities Center, March 2001
Texas Technical University, History and Women’s Studies Departments, February 2001
Stanford University, “Simone de Beauvoir,” History Department’s Twentieth Century Lives Series,
February 2001
American Historical Association, Modern European History Section Luncheon Speaker, Boston,
January 2001
University of Georgia, Athens, History Department and French Culture Workshop, October 2000
Fordham University, History Department, May 2000
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, March 2000
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, History Department, March 2000
National Humanities Center, French Culture Group, March 2000
Princeton University, History Department, January 2000
New York University, Institute for French Studies, December 1999
University of Pennsylvania, French Cultural Studies Seminar, November 1998
Cornell University, History Department, November 1997
Alliance Française, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1997
University of California, Santa Cruz, Cultural Studies Program, January 1997
University of California, Los Angeles, European History Workshop, January 1997
Stanford University, Adult Education Guest Lecture on Woolf’s Three Guineas” November 1996
Rice University, History Department, March 1996
University of Texas at Austin, History Department, March 1996
Reed College, History Department, March 1996
New York Area French History Group, New York City, February 1996
Stanford University, Travel/Study Program, Faculty Lecturer, Dordogne, June 1995
University of Chicago, European History Workshop, May 1995
Des Moines Community College, "French Week" speaker, April 1995
Drake University, History Department, April 1995
Stanford University, Alumnae Association, December 1994
University of California at Santa Cruz, Conference on Consumer Culture, Cultural Studies Program,
November 1994
Stanford University, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, February 1994
University of California at Davis, History Department, May 1993
University of South Dakota at Vermillion, History Department, April 1993
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Center for the Study of Social Transformations, January 1993
Harvard University, Center for European Studies, December 1992
Stanford Univeristy, Travel/Study Program, Faculty Lecturer, November 1992
Stanford University, Centennial Celebration, September, 1991
University of California at Berkeley, Bay Area French History Group, April 1991
Conference Papers and Comments
Comment, Fifteenth Berkshires Conference in the History of Women, “The Body Politic” June
2011
Paper, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. January 2008, “Rape Hysteria and the
Sexual Economy of Race: French Accusations of Sexual Assault against African-American
GIs, 1944-1946”
Co-organizer, with Joan Scott and Daniel Sherman, “In Terms of Gender,” May 2007, Center for
21st Century Studies, Introductory remarks and Paper, “Out of their Orbit: Celebrities and
Eccentrics in Nineteenth-century France.”
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Paper, “Charisma, Fame, and Celebrity during the long 19th century” New York University, April
2007
Paper, “Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World,” Minneapolis, October 2006
Comment, “Archives of the Self: History, Biography, Autobiography,” French Historical Studies,
April, 2006
Paper, “Translating Gender,” as part of “Lost in Translation: A Roundtable on Franco-American
Intellectual Exchange,” French Historical Studies Conference, Paris, June 2004
Comment on Christophe Prochasson, “Testimony and Experience: True and False in
French War Narrative, 1930-1980” University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, April 2003
Comment on Lynn Hunt, “The History of Human Rights, Stanford University, April 2002
Comment, “City Girls: Women, Sexuality and Space in London, 1880s to 1940s,” Meeting of the
American Historical Association, Boston, January 2001
Paper, “The Fantastic Sarah Bernhardt,” Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Los
Angeles, California, November 2000
Comment, Roger Chartier’s “Between Textual Criticism and Cultural History, Stanford University,
October 2000
Comment, "Race, Gender and Violence in Colonial and Post-Colonial France," Meeting of the
American Historical Association, PCB, Maui, Hawaii, August 1999
Paper, "New Woman/Frenchwoman: Gyp, Séverine and the Dreyfus Affair," Eleventh Meeting of
the Berkshire Conference for the History of Women, Rochester, June 1999
Comment and Co-Chair, "New Directions in French Cultural History," Meeting of the American
Historical Association, Seattle, January 1998.
Paper, “Only Questions to Offer: Recent Work on Feminism by Joan Scott and Mona Ozouf,”
French Historical Studies Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, March 1997.
Paper, "Mimicry and Fin-de-siècle journalism," Western Society for French History Conference, Las
Vegas, November 1995
Comment, "Anxious Plots: Narratives of Moral Panic and Cultural Regeneration in Modern France,"
Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 1995
Paper, "La Fronde and the Culture of Journalism," Gender and Mass Culture in France, 1880-1930,
Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 1994
Paper, "Simone de Beauvoir and Feminism", Rewriting the History of Feminism Roundtable, Ninth
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June 1993
Paper, "Gender and Difference," Panel on the "History of Difference," University of California,
Berkeley - Stanford Colloquium, November 1993
Paper, "Rationalization, Vocational Guidance and the Reconstruction of Female Identity in Post-war
France during the 1920s," Western Society for French History Conference, Orcas Island,
October 1992
Comment, Terry Castle's "Marie Antoinette," Feminist Studies Seminar, Stanford University,
December,1991
Paper, "How Can We Ever Heal Such a Wound?": Natalism, Cultural Crisis and the Abortion Law
of 1920," French Historical Studies Conference, Vancouver, March, 1991
Paper, "Simone de Beauvoir: Coming of Age in the Twenties," Conference on the Legacy of Simone
de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Palo Alto, January, 1991
Paper, "This Civilization No Longer Has Sexes:" La Garçonne and Gender Ambiguity in Post-war
France," Meeting of the American Historical Asssociation, Cincinatti, December, 1989
University and Departmental Service, Stanford (selected list)
Director, Undergraduate Studies, History Department, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-2002
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Faculty Senate, 2001-2002
Committee for Future Directions, Institute for Research on Women and Gender , 2001-2002
Executive Committee, Stanford Humanities Center Board, 1998-2002
Coordinator, Mellon Workshop on French Culture, 1998-99, 2000-2002
Director, Humanities, Literature, Art Degree, History, Stanford, 1998-1999, 2000-2002
Advisory Board, LGBT Resource Center, Stanford, 2000-2002
Faculty Judicial Panel, Stanford, 2000-2001
Policy Committee, History Department, Stanford, 1995-6, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2000-2001
Women’s Faculty Caucus, Stanford, 1997-1999
Selection Committee, Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Spring 1998
Task Force on Diversity, School of Humanities and Sciences, 1998
Chair, European Graduate Admissions Committee, 1996-1998
Cultures, Ideas, and Values Redesign Committee, 1995-97
Coordinator, European History Workshop, 1995-98
Selection Committee, IRWG Faculty Fellowship, 1994-96
Honors College, History Department, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001
Co-coordinator, Workshop for Comparative Women's History, 1992-97
University and Departmental Service, University of Wisconsin
Director, Program in Gender and Women’s History, 2010-2011
Member, British Search Committee, 2010-2011
Faculty Council, History Department, 2003-2005, 2006-2007, 2010-2011
Advisory Committee, Center for the Humanities, 2008-2011
Budget Committee, History Department, Spring 2003, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, 2008-2010
Executive Board, George Mosse Program, 2004-Core Faculty, Program in Gender and Women’s History, History Department, 2003—
Harassment and Discrimination Committee, History Department, 2005-2007
University Research Committee, Division of Letters and Sciences, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Alumni Relations Committee, History Department, 2005-2010
Tenure Committee, Women’s Studies and History, 2006-2007
Women’s Faculty Mentoring Program, 2004-2007
Search Committee, U.S. Military History, History Department, 2006-2007
Chair, Joint Committee on Teaching Assistants, History Department, 2005-2006
Search Committee, Legal Studies Cluster, Fall 2005
Search Committee, American History since 1945, 2004-5
Co-Director, Transnational Gender History Mellon Workshop, Fall, 2003-2005
Diversity Committee, History Department, 2003-4
Chair, European Group, History Department, 2003-2004
Strategic Hiring Committee, History Department, 2003-2004
African Diaspora Search Committee, Spring 2003
FLAS Grant Evaluation Committee, 2003
Professional Service
Official Correspondant, Études Sociales et Politiques des Populations, de la Protection Sociale et de
la Santé (ESOPP), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2006-2009
Editorial Board, Feminist Studies, 2006—
Committee on the George Mosse Prize, American Historical Association, 2007-2009 (Chair, 2008)
Wisconsin French History Group, 2002-2010
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Program Committee, French Historical Studies Conference, March 2003
Modern European Committee, American Historical Association, 2000-2002
Editorial Board, French Historical Studies, 1998-2001
Article Review:
Feminist Studies
Journal of Women’s History,
French Historical Studies
Gender and History
Signs
Community Appearances and Service
University of the Air, June 2009
Winchester Academy, March 2010
Teaching
University of Wisconsin --Undergraduate
History 120: Europe and the Modern World, 1789 to the Present. (Large undergraduate class)
Fall 2010 Score: 4.71 (Score on Question #8 out of possible 5.0)
Fall 2008 Score: 4.78
Fall 2006 Score: 4.66
Fall 2005 Score: 4.68
Fall 2003 Score: 4.48
History 120 was part of a Freshmen Interest Group (FIG) on Victorian Europe (with English and
Art History), Fall 2006, Fall 2010. Also taught Honors group, Fall 2010
History 200: Twentieth-Century Europe as Lived Experience.
Spring 2005 Score: 4.91
Spring 2004 Score: 4.92
History 392: Women and Gender in Modern Europe.
Fall 2009, Score: 4.84
Spring 2007 Score: 4.90
Spring 2006 Score: 4.77
Fall 2004 Score: 4.84
Spring 2003 Score: 4.79
History 600: Gender and the Second World War First taught Spring 2007.
Spring 2007 Score: 5.0
University of Wisconsin -- Graduate
History 891: Gender and Race in Modern Europe Fall 2010
History 891: Gender and War in the Twentieth Century, First taught Fall 2009
History 753: Seminar in Comparative World History: Gender, Power and Colonialism (With
Professor Florence Mallon), First taught Fall 2008
History 891: The Rise and Fall of the Domestic Ideal. First taught Fall 2003.
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History 891: Gender and Race in Modern Europe First taught Fall 2004.
History 753: Seminar in Comparative World History: Gender and Popular Rebellion (with
Professor Florencia Mallon) First taught Fall 2006
Stanford University --Undergraduate
Introduction to the Humanities 26, Democratic Society in Europe and America (with
Professor David Kennedy, History Department)
Introduction to the Humanities 36, The Rise and Fall of Europe, 1800-2000
History 03 Europe and Beyond: The Modern Age, 1789-1989
History 35S Twentieth Century History as Lived Experience
History 132 France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
History 191 Europe 1880-1918, The Fin de Siècle and the Great War
History 232A Shopping: A History
History 232B Women and Gender in Modern France
Stanford University -- Graduate
331F Women and Gender in Modern Europe
331E Culture and Politics in the Nineteenth Century
332 The Twentieth Century: History and Historiography in a Postliberal Age
332A Culture and Politics: France, 1789-1914
332B Culture and Politics: France, 1914-1968
University of Wisconsin – Undergraduate Independent Studies
Pathways Scholars Program for Undergraduate Research, Kristen Jones, Summer 2007
Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, Charles Wong, 2005-2006
Independent Research on the Second World War, Joseph Buttery, Spring 2006
Independent Senior Thesis Research, Emily Fransee, 2005-2006
The Honors Summer Sophomore Apprenticeship Research Grant, Andy Myszewski,
Summer 2006
University of Wisconsin -- Masters Theses
John Cornelius, “The Legal Career of Daniel O’Connell,” 2004.
Katherine Eade, From Innovator to Traitor: Casting Rachel Felix as the French Jewess, 1838-1856"
Tiffany Florvil, “Visualizing Culture and Race in Germany: Simplicissimus’s articulation of
"Otherness" and ‘The Black Horror,’ 1917-1923,” 2007.
Chris Fojtik, “Gender, Nationalism, and the Consumer Cooperative in Western Bohemia, 19211938,” 2007.
Jeffrey Hobbs, “The Duchesse du Barry in Captivity: Political Legitimacy and the Nation State,
1830,” 2007.
Maya Holtzman, "Crystal Clean People: The Soviet Partisan Movement and the Communist Union
of Youth during the Second World War"
Katie Jarvis, “Crafting a revolutionary identity : the political practice of the Dames des Halles, 17891791” 2009
Deirdre Joyce, “A New Dress for Cathleen: Changing Irish Identities and the Irish Fashion Culture,
1950-1965,” 2004.
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Ann MacLaughlin-Berres, “Mourning and Political Culture in Ireland, 1916-1921: Toward an
Understanding of Popular Support for the War of Independence,” 2007
Brittany McCormick, “Six formative years : Jack Lynch, the northern Ireland crisis and the
transformation of Fianna Fáil, 1968-73,” 2008
Hunter Martin, “American Jazz in France: French Debates on American Values During the Early
Cold War,” 2005.
William Meier, “Hanging People: Capital Punishment and British Society since 1868,” 2004.
Gregory Shealy, “Buffalo Bill in Germany: Gender, Heroism, and the American West in Imperial
Germany,” 2003.
Sarah Robinson, “Prefects on the Scene: Sociability, Politics, and State Building in Napoleonic
France,” 2003.
Michelle Wing, “She Is Always With Me: Popular Catholicism in France during the Great War,”
2007.
Sarah Wobick, “Siting the Public Sphere : The Place of the Coffeehouse in the Lives of Jews and
Women in Central Europe in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” 2004.
Maggie Wunnenberg, “’Un Mal de l’Appartenance’: The Negotiation of Religious Categories by
Jewish Children Hidden as Catholics in France during the Shoah,” 2006.
Nadine Zimmerli, "History in the Service of Politics: The East German Uprising of June 17, 1953,
in German Memory"
University of Wisconsin -- Ph.D Dissertations (Title provided if dissertation is completed. All
others in progress).
Laura Kay Van Abbema, “The autonomy and influence of Roman women in the late first/early
second century CE : social history and gender discourse”2008
Lisa Cline, “Femininité à la française : femininity, social change and French national identity : 19451970” 2008
Chris Fojtik (Primary Mentor)
Holly Grout (Primary Mentor with Laird Boswell), “Beauty marks : the production, practice, and
performance of femininity in France, 1880-1939” 2008
Gillian Glaes, “The mirage of fortune : West African immigration to Paris and the development of a
post-colonial immigrant community, 1960-1981,” 2008
Ethan Katz, “Jews and Muslims in the Shadow of Marianne: Conflicting Identities and Republican
Culture in France, 1914-1975,” 2009
Rob Lewis, “The Society of the Stadium : Urban Modernity, Sports Spectatorship and Mass Politics
in France, 1893-1975” 2007
Hunter Martin
William Meier, “Hanging People: Capital Punishment and British Society since 1868,” 2009
Susan Nelson, “Amazons, Intellectuals and the Good Wife: Quarrels over women in Early
Eighteenth-Century France,” 2010
Terry Peterson
Sarah Robinson,
Gregory Shealy, “The Mechanized Harvester in Imperial Germany: The Cultural Biography of a
Single Transatlantic Commodity,” 2009
Michelle Wing (Primary Mentor)
Sarah Wobick, “Making Yourself at Home: Jewish Belonging and Sociability in Paris, Berlin and St.
Petersburg, 1890s-1950s,” 2010
Keith Woodhouse
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Maggie Wunnenburg (Primary Mentor)
Nadine Zimmerli, “Imperial Dresden: Cultural Innovation and Mobility in Elbflorenz"
Stanford University --Ph.D Theses (Primary Mentees only).
Timothy Brown, “The Language of Public Service and Private Interest in France: The Vexed Case
of the Paris Auctioneers, 1750-1848,” 2002.
Benjamin Kafka, “The Imaginary State: Paperwork and Political Thought in France, 1789-1860,”
2004.
Rachel Nunez, “Between France and the World: The Gender Politics of Cosmopolitanism,” 18351914,” 2006.
Stephen Schloesser, “Mystic Realists: Sacramental Modernism in French Catholic Revival, 19181928” (1998); and Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933 (2005).
Sarah Sussman, “Changing Land, Changing Identities: The Migration of Algerian Jewry to France,
1954-1967,” 2002.
Molly Watson, “The Trade in Women: “White Slavery” and the French Nation, 1889-1939,” 1999.
Outside Readers for dissertations and other theses
Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, Diplôme de l’Habilitation, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel,
2009
University of Florida, Gainesville, History Department: Lela Felter-Kerley, 2006
University of Wisconsin, French department: Veronique Olivier Wallis, 2005 and Marcy Dionis
Farrell, 2008