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Burleigh Hendrickson
Curriculum Vitae
Boston College
Email:
History Department
[email protected]
Stokes Hall South, S344
Office Phone:
140 Commonwealth Ave.
(617) 552-3808
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Education
2014
Ph.D. in World History, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Dissertation: “Imperial Fragments and Transnational Activism: 1968(s) in
Tunisia, France, and Senegal”
Committee: Laura Frader (advisor), Timothy S. Brown, Katherine Luongo
Fields: European Empires, Postcolonial Studies, Social and Political Theory
2006
M.A., Portland State University, Portland, OR
Thesis: “The Deconstruction of Venality in France, 1750-1789”
Committee: Thomas Luckett (advisor), Linda Walton, Steven Fuller, Sue Peabody
Fields: Modern European History. Minor in World Comparative History
2001
B.A., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
French Literature and Global History
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Academic Employment
2014-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2014
Part-time Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
2010
Lecturer, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
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External Fellowships & Awards
2014
2013-2014
2013-2014
2010-2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
2010-2011
2009-2010
Society for French Historical Studies Research Travel Award
Mellon / Council for European Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Mellon / ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Mellon / Social Science Research Council-IDRF
CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship (declined)
Chateaubriand Fellowship (alternate)
Pensionnaire Scientifique Internationale, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Internal Fellowships & Awards
2014
2013
2013
Feer Prize for Highest Achieving Graduate Student in History
Northeastern Provost Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined)
Future Leaders Grant, Embassy of the United States. Selected by Northeastern
University President Joseph Aoun as graduate representative at the Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada's Canadian International Conference of
leaders in higher education (international travel award)
2012-2013
Gillis Family Funds for Graduate World History Research
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Manuscript in Progress
Fragments of Empire: The Postcolonial 1968 in Tunisia, France, and Senegal
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Publications
Peer-reviewed
Articles
"Le mouvement étudiant tunisien aux années 68 : un cas global ?" (under review
in Monde(s): histoires, espaces, relations).
“March 1968: Practicing Transnational Activism From Tunis to Paris,” in special
review “Maghribi Histories in the Modern Era,” International Journal of Middle
East Studies 44 (November 2012): 755-774.
Chapters/Articles "The Francophone Global 1960s," (forthcoming) Perspectives on Europe, online
(Solicited)
journal of the Council for European Studies (CES).
"Qu’est-ce que la postcolonialité ? Vers une définition pluraliste" in
Postcolonial Studies : modes d’emploi, ed. by Florian Alix et al.(Presses
universitaires de Lyon, 2013), 155-173.
"Migrations intellectuelles, Indépendance Inachevée et 1968 à Dakar et à
Tunis," in special review, "La mobilisation des immigrés pour la décolonisation,
France 1930-1970," Migrance 39 (2012): 110-122. English translation online at:
http://www.generiques.org/images/pdf/migrance_anglais/BURLEIGH_Intellectual_Migration.pdf
Reviews
Review of Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian
Revolution (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, 2004). Reviewed in “H-Net-French-Colonial,” (September 2009).
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25185
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Review of John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult and
Imitation in American Popular Culture (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Group, 2006). Reviewed in Journal of Popular Culture 41 (December 2008).
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Teaching Interests and Experience
French Empire, Postcolonial Studies, The Global 1960s, Transnational and Comparative History,
History of Revolution, Maghreb Studies, African Intellectual History, World History
Instructor of Record
2015 (Spring)
2014 (Fall)
2014 (Summer)
2014 (Spring)
2012 (Summer)
2012 (Spring)
2010
2010
Modern History II, 1800-present (Boston College)
Modern History I, 1400-1800 (Boston College)
Europe: Empires, Revolutions, Wars, and Their Aftermath (Northeastern)
The History of Vietnam Wars (Northeastern)
The World Since 1945 (Northeastern)
The World Since 1945 (Northeastern)
Advanced Composition/University Writing (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Advanced Composition and Oral Expression for Professional Academia (École
Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Teaching Assistant
2009
2008
2008
2007
2006
2002-03
Gender and Society in Modern Europe (Northeastern)
Exploring the Humanities through Film (Northeastern)
Vienna, Budapest, Prague, 1867-1918 (Northeastern)
Russian Civilization (Northeastern)
Western Civilization (Portland State University)
English Language Instruction (Lycée René Cassin, Bayonne, France)
Dialogue of Civilizations (Summer Study Abroad Course)
Graduate Assistant
2010
Multiculturalism in Central Europe (Northeastern)
2008-09
Vienna, Budapest, Prague, 1867-1918 (Northeastern)
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Conference Papers
"Student Activism and the Birth of the Tunisian Human Rights Movement." Colloque Mouvements
étudiants en Afrique francophone, des indépendances à nos jours. July 3-5, 2014. Panthéon-Sorbonne and
the Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXe siècle, Paris, France.
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"'On réprime ici, on réprime là-bas': Paris as a Postcolonial Site of Third-World Protest in les années 68." 60th
Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies. April 24-26, 2014. Université de Montréal
and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Panel Organizer: "Reviving the Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present in the Francophone World,"and
presenter: "Colonial History as a (Counter-)Revolutionary Weapon? Francophone Postcolonial
Narratives in State and Society." 21st Annual International Conference of Europeanists, Resurrections.
March 14-16, 2014. Council for European Studies, Washington, D.C.
Panel Organizer: “Between the Streets and the Archives: Grappling with Sources in Francophone Africa
in ‘les années 1968,’” and presenter: “Pluralizing Perspectives: Pitfalls and Perks of Oral History Across
the Former French Empire.” 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies. April 4-6,
2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
“Translating Transnationalism into the World History Syllabus.” New England Regional Chapter of the
World Historical Association. Roundtable “Teaching Contemporary History: Challenges and Strategies.”
April 2012, Salem State University, Salem, MA.
“1968: A Postcolonial Situation.” 36th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. June
2010, Université de Paris VIII, France.
« Qu’est-ce que la postcolonialité ? Vers une définition pluraliste ». Laboratoire Jeunes Chercheurs
« Littératures et études postcoloniales. Les outils théoriques à l’épreuve des textes ». June 2010, École
Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
“Decolonizing ‘1968’: Francophone Protest from Paris to Dakar.” “Out of Bounds: Exploring Global
Connections,” World History Conference. March 2009, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
“Unveiling Fanon: Psychoanalysis, Gender Theory, and the Politics of Nationalism.” Northeast Modern
Languages Association 40th Annual Meeting. February 2009, Boston, MA.
“The Intellectual Evolution of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Nationalism.” New England Historical Association
Annual Spring Meeting. April 2008, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
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Conference Chairing Appearances
Moderator and Commentator for the panel « De l’autochtonie à la nationalité de l’indigène : une raison
d’Empire » ? Journée d’Étude : Empires, Nationalités et Autochtonie. April 30, 2011, Institut de
recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, Tunis, Tunisia.
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Invited Presentations / Workshops
Guest Research Presentation, "Francophone Migration and Youth Protest: 1968 in Tunisia." January 30,
2014, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Invited Guest Lecture, "What's Algeria Got to Do with It? Race and Protest in Mai 68." History Seminar:
1968: Youth Protest in Europe. October 10, 2013, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Featured Panelist Graduate Fulbright Grants Workshop. May 23, 2013, College of Social Sciences and
Humanities Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Invited Guest Lecture, "Tocqueville and French Imperialism in Algeria." History Seminar: Empire and
Colonialism. January 23, 2013, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Invited Guest Lecture, "Conducting Historical Research on the Global 1960s and the Cold War." History
Colloquium: Communism and the Cold War. February 13, 2013, Northeastern University.
Guest Research Presentation, “Les droits de l’homme en Tunisie depuis 1968.” Hommage à Ahmed
Othmani. June 22, 2012, Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine, Nanterre,
France.
Northeastern University Faculty/Graduate Workshop Series, “Mission Libératrice and Valets of
Imperialism: 1968 in the Former French Empire.” April 17, 2012, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Northeastern University Graduate Colloquia Series, “Conducting Archival Research Abroad.” April 9,
2012, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
The Office of International Affairs Colloquium, “Movement, Mediation, Liberation: Transnational
Networks of Resistance ‘Post’ 1968.” March 20, 2012, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Workshop. March 10, 2012,
Savannah, GA.
Guest Research Presentation, “March 1968 in Tunis: Continuities with the Revolution in 2011.” April 21,
2011, Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines, Université Ibn Charaf, Tunis, Tunisia.
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Media
"Ph.D. candidate Burleigh Hendrickson returns from research abroad in France, Tunisia, and Senegal,"
Fall 2012 Northeastern History Department Newsletter.
http://www.northeastern.edu/history/news/department-newsletter/fall-2012/ph-d-candidateburleigh-hendrickson-returns-from-research-abroad-in-france-tunisia-and-senegal/
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“Revolution aids research into earlier era of unrest,” April 28, 2011. Interviewed by Northeastern
University’s Marketing & Communications Department for featured online article.
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/04/tunisia.html
“La revolution tunisienne à l’aune de Mai 1968,” February 25, 2011. Featured guest of journalist Antonin
Perraud for Mediapart webcast. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xh613f_burleigh-hendricksonde-la- revolution-en-tunisie_news
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Study/Research Abroad
2014
Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine, Nanterre, France
2012
Archives Diplomatiques du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Courneuve, France
2011
West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal
2011
Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis, Tunisia
2010-2011
Archives Nationales de France, Fontainebleau, France
2010-2011
Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhônes-Alpes, invited researcher, France
2009-2010
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Pensionnaire Scientifique, France
2002-2003
Language Teaching Assistant, Bayonne, France
1999-2000
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
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Foreign Language
French (Near Native Fluency)
Arabic (Beginner)
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Affiliations
American Historical Association
Council for European Studies
French Colonial Historical Society
Society for French Historical Studies
New England Regional World History Association
West African Research Association / West African Research Center
Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis
Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes (2010-11)
Northeast Modern Language Association
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Academic Service
2013-present
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012-2013
2012
2012
2008-10
Member of Advisory Board for immigrant oral history archive project “Histoire
des mobilisations pour les droits des immigrés” (Génériques, Paris)
Rapporteur, Canadian universities in a global context: A dialogue on international
trends and opportunities. Conference sponsored by the Association of Universities
and Colleges of Canada, co-sponsored by the University of Alberta (Ottawa, ON)
Assistant to Committee on Conflict, Civility, Respect, Peace (Northeastern)
Staff Writer for the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (Northeastern)
Member of Communications Committee on Website Development
(Northeastern)
U.S. and the World History Professor Hire Search Committee (Northeastern)
Research Assistant to the History Department (Northeastern)
Selection Committee for Graduate History Conference (Northeastern)
Selection Committee for Dialogue of Civilizations Study Abroad (Northeastern)
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