Nimisha Barton | University of California, Irvine
Dr. Nimisha Barton is a Visiting Researcher at UC Irvine and an Equity Consultant in education who develops and implements anti-oppression programs, trainings, and curricula for students, faculty, and administrators. Her award-winning research on gender, sexuality, and immigration in modern France has appeared in French Politics, Culture and Society, Journal of Women’s History, and various edited volumes. Her co-edited volume on women, gender, and citizenship in modern France appeared in 2018 with the University of Nebraska Press. Her book, entitled Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in France, 1880-1945, appeared in 2020 with Cornell University Press. Reproductive Citizens received Honorable Mention for the Society of French Historical Studies’ David H. Pinkney Prize and was awarded the prestigious J. Russell Major prize offered by the American Historical Association.
Victoria Bergbauer | Princeton University
Victoria Bergbauer is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. Under the supervision of Philip Nord, her dissertation traces the fate of incarcerated adolescent boys and girls and their life beyond prison in nineteenth-century Europe. Before arriving at Princeton, Victoria completed a Master1-2 research degree in “Histoire Contemporaine” at the University of Paris-1, Panthéon Sorbonne. Currently her interests focus on the relationship between disease, criminality, and architecture. Her article, “Prosthetic Village”, explored how the physical legacies of World War One shaped new architectural experiments and will appear as a display in the “Sick Architecture” exhibition, opening at CIVA-Brussels in May 2022. In April 2022, Victoria co-organized a cross-disciplinary conference, entitled “The Architecture of Confinement”, that hosted survivors, activists, historians, architects, designers, and artists at Princeton.
Alex Chase-Levenson | Binghamton University
Alex Chase-Levenson received his PhD from Princeton in 2015. He then worked as Assistant, then Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, leaving in 2021 to become Associate Professor of History and Public Health at Binghamton University. His first book, The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, was published by Cambridge UP in 2020 and won the NACBS’s Stansky Prize in 2021. He is currently at work on a new book on the history of border obsession, imagination, and paranoia in the British world during the long nineteenth century.
Alice L. Conklin | Ohio State University
Alice L. Conklin is College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University. A historian of modern France and it empire, her most recent book is In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology and Empire in France, 1850-1950 (Cornell, 2013), which won the David H. Pinkney Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Senior Book Prize from the Ohio Academy of History. An illustrated translation appeared in 2015, Exposer l’humanité: race, ethnologie et empire en France, 1850-1950 (Editions scientifiques du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle). Her first monograph, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Stanford, 1997) won the Berkshire Prize for Best Book by a Woman. She has also co-authored two works aimed at undergraduates: France and Its Empire since 1870 (Oxford, 2014 [2010]) and European Imperialism 1830-1930: Climax and Contradictions (Cengage, 1998). She taught at the University of Rochester for thirteen years before moving to OSU in 2004 and has received several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a German Marshall Fund Fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship and OSU’s Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award. Her current project looks at French antiracism in the postwar decade in comparative perspective.
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira | Singapore Management University
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (Education) at Singapore Management University and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2018, where Philip Nord supervised his dissertation on aeronautical culture in France from 1860-1914. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Late Nineteenth-Century France (under advanced contract with The MIT Press). His work has also appeared in the Journal Urban History and Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. His most recent article, “Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism”, was published in Past & Present in 2022.
Matthew Dowd | Princeton University
Matthew Dowd is a 5th year PhD candidate at Princeton University studying the history of religion, politics, and economic life in modern Europe. He completed his B.A. in International Relations and French Literature at Tufts University, and his M.A. in modern European History at the University of Paris 1. Matthew’s dissertation analyzes competing visions of nineteenth-century political economy among French Catholics, from the 1830s to Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical, Rerum Novarum.
Elizabeth A. Foster | Tufts University
Elizabeth A. Foster is Professor of History at Tufts University. She is the author of African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church (Harvard UP 2019), which received the John Gilmary Shea Book Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association and Honorable Mention for the Religion and International Relations Book Prize from the International Studies Association. Her first book Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 (Stanford UP 2013) won the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society. Her work has been funded by Fulbright, NEH, and ACLS fellowships.
David Allen Harvey | New College of Florida
David Allen Harvey is Professor of History at New College of Florida. Harvey’s primary area of interest is the history of modern France and Germany. He is the author of Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945 (2001), Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France (2005) and The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences (2012). Harvey received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Carla Hesse | University of California, Berkeley
Carla Hesse is the Peder Sather Professor of History, and served as Dean of Social Sciences from 2009-2019, and as Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science from 2014-2019 at UC Berkeley. She received her BA degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz (’79), her MA and PhD degrees from Princeton University (’82, 86′), and has been a member of the Berkeley faculty for thirty years. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris (1991) and the Other Enlightenment (2001). Hesse is the recipient of notable awards and prizes, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Aby Warburg Prize. She was inducted as a Chevalier de l’ Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1993 and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. She is currently completing a book about the French revolutionary terror and writing about the publishing history of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Piotr Kosicki | University of Maryland
Biography Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Adjunct Professor of History at McGill University, and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He specializes in transnational European history and the history of the Roman Catholic Church, with a particular emphasis on ideology, revolution, and the international order. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891-1956 (Yale, 2018) and editor/co-editor of 8 volumes, including most recently (with Wolfram Kaiser) Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century. Kosicki has published 20 refereed articles and book chapters, and he has also written for Commonweal, The Nation, The New Republic, The TLS, and the Washington Post. He has been awarded a range of grants and fellowships, most recently the Sheptyts’kyi Ukraine in European Dialogue Senior Fellowship of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.coming soon…
David Moak | University of California, Santa Barbara
David Moak is a Lecturer at the University of California Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2017. His work focuses on the early history of tourism in Nice and what would become known as the French Riviera, and it has appeared in the Journal of Urban History and French History (among other places).
Miranda Sachs | Texas State University
Miranda Sachs is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. Her research examines the histories of children and youth in Modern France. She was an undergraduate at Princeton where she completed her thesis under the supervision of Phil Nord. Her first book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris, is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Daniel Sherman | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Daniel Sherman is Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a former director of the Center for 21st Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (1989), The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (1999), winner of, among other awards, the American Historical Association’s J. Russell Major Prize for 2000, and French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975 (2011), winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Alf Heggoy Book Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society and published in French translation in 2018. He is also the editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including Museum Culture (1994), Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11 (2006) and Museums and Difference (2008), and co-editor with Donald Reid of a special issue of French Historical Studies on the fiftieth anniversary of May 1968. Sherman has held fellowships from the NEH, Guggenheim Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), National Humanities Center, National Gallery of Art, and Institut d’Etudes Avancées (Paris). He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled “Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940.”
Leonard Smith | Oberlin College
Leonard Smith has taught at Oberlin College since 1990. He is the author of Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I (Princeton, 1990); France and the Great War, 1914-1918 (with Annette Becker and Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau (Cambridge, 2003); The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War (Cornell, 2007); and Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Oxford, 2018). French Colonialism from the Ancien Régime to the Present will be published in the New Approaches to European History Series by Cambridge in 2023. Smith will spend the Spring Semester 2023 as Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He will begin research on a new project on law, liberalism, and racial exclusion in Texas and French Algeria in the nineteenth century.
Hannah Stamler | Princeton University
Hannah Stamler is a Ph.D. candidate in History and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Princeton, working on the visual and material culture of childhood and maternity in late Third Republic France. Her scholarly work is forthcoming in French Politics, Culture & Society and her cultural criticism has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and The Nation, among other outlets.