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Herrick Eaton Chapman
Home address: 1265 Beacon St., Apt. 903 Phone: 617-413-3574 Brookline, MA 02446 e-mail: [email protected]
Work address: Institute of French Studies Phone: 212-998-8743 New York University Fax: 212-995-4142 15 Washington Mews New York, NY 10003
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of History and French Studies, Department of History and Institute of French Studies, New York University.
Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Editor, French Politics, Culture & Society.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, 1983. Passed qualifying exams with distinction.
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, 1977.
M.P.A. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1972.
A.B. Princeton University, Public and International Affairs, magna cum laude, 1971.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
Visiting Research Fellow, New College, Oxford University, spring 2008.
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, conferred by the French Government, 2006.
Remarque Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University, spring semester 2006.
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Research Fellowship, 1993-94.
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National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1993-94.
Maurice Falk Fellowship in the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University, spring 1992.
Faculty Development Grant for Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987 and 1991.
American Council of Learned Societies, post-doctoral research fellowship for recent recipients of the Ph.D., 1985-86.
National Fellow, Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1985- 86.
Research Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-86 (declined).
International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, for dissertation research and writing, 1979-81.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship, for dissertation research, 1979-80.
Honorary Chancellor's Traveling Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, for dissertation research, 1979.
Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship, 1977-1981.
Senior Thesis Prize, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1971.
PAST EMPLOYMENT
Visiting Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University, fall 2003.
Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 1986-92.
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University, 1981-85.
Teaching Assistant, History, University of California at Berkeley, 1978-79.
Assistant to the Dean, then Assistant Dean, then Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1972-75.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
L’Aéronautique: Salariés et patrons d’une industrie française, 1928-1950, tradution de Bernard Mullié, préface de Patrick Fridenson. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011. Translation of State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry.
Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, co-edited with Laura L. Frader. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.
A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century? co- edited with Mark Kesselman and Martin Schain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990, co-edited with George Reid Andrews. New York: New York University Press. London: Macmillan Ltd. 1995.
European Society in Upheaval: Social History Since 1700, Third Edition, co-authored with Peter N. Stearns. New York: MacMillan, 1992.
State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Articles
“The Future of Work: The Political Work Ahead,” Pacific Standard (October 2015), www.psmag.com/business-economics/the-future-of-work-the-political-work-ahead, co-authored with Lizabeth Cohen.
“French Studies and Its Futures: Flourishing in a Tough Climate,” French Politics, Culture & Society 32, 2 (Summer 2014).
Review essay on Philip Nord, France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), published in H-France Forum (Winter 2011).
“The State,” in The French Republic, ed. Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert and Christophe Prochasson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011.
“Le patronat et UNEDIC,” in Dictionnaire du patronat. Paris: Flammarion, 2010.
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“Les petits commerçants et l’État de la révolte poujadiste au début de la Ve République,” in Les Petites et Moyennes Entreprises de 1880 à nos jours. Pouvoirs, representation, action, edited by Sylvie Guillaume and Michel Lescure. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008.
“The Trailblazing Herrick Sisters of Elmira,” News from the Schlesinger Library (Spring 2008).
“Choisir l’histoire, découvrir la France,” in Pourquoi la France? Des historiens américains racontent leur passion pour l’Hexagone, ed. Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, translated by Sylvie Taussig, preface by Roger Chartier. Paris: Seuil, 2007.
“France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?” in Revisiting the Liberation, ed. Andrew Knapp. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
“Choosing History, Discovering France,” in Why France: American Historians Reflect on Their Enduring Fascination, ed. Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
“Pierre Poujade,” in the Dictionnaire Charles de Gaulle. Paris: Robert Laffont, 2006.
“Réformateurs et contestataires de l’impôt après la seconde guerre mondiale,” in L’impôt en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Maurice Lévy-Leboyer, Michel Lescure et Alain Plessis. Paris: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2006.
“L’exception française: mythe ou réalité?” Interview in Sciences humaines 46 (September- November 2004).
“The Liberation of France as a Moment in State-Making,” in Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth- Century France, ed. Martin S. Alexander and Kenneth Mouré. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
"Modernity and National Identity in Postwar France," French Historical Studies 22, 2 (Spring 1999).
"Higher Education and Family Care Issues: Introduction," The History Teacher 29, 4 (August 1996).
With Mark Kesselman and Martin Schain, "The Exceptional Trajectory of the French Labor Movement," French Politics and Society 14, 4 (Fall 1996). Co-editor with Kesselman and Schain of this special issue of the journal on "A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century?"
"Working on France in American Universities," an introduction to a special forum in French Historical Studies 19, 2 (Fall 1995); guest editor of the forum.
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With George Reid Andrews, "The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990," in The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990, ed. George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman. New York: New York University Press. London: Macmillan, Ltd. 1995.
"French Democracy and the Welfare State." In The Social Construction of Democracy, ed. George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman. New York: New York University Press. London: Macmillan, Ltd. 1995.
Essays on "State and Society," "The Great Depression of the 1930s," and "The World Wars" for The Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1993.
"Pittsburgh and Europe's Metallurgical Cities: A Comparison." In City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh, ed. Samuel P. Hays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.
"Revolutionary Commemoration as Contested Terrain from the Popular Front to the Fourth Republic." French Politics and Society 7, 4 (September 1989).
"Les Ouvriers, le communisme et l'Etat: les politiques de reconstruction d'après-guerre dans l'industrie aéronautique 1944-1950." Le Mouvement social 145 (December 1988).
"The Ambiguous Legacy of the Popular Front." French Politics and Society 15 (November 1986).
"The Political Life of the Rank and File: French Aircraft Workers During the Popular Front, 1934-1938." International Labor and Working-Class History 30 (Fall 1986).
"The French State in the Era of the Second World War." Center for Studies of Social Change, New School for Social Research, Working Paper Series, No. 63 (August 1985).
"The Economy and the State in Twentieth-Century France." Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (1983).
"French Nationalization," The New York Times, November 12, 1981.
Book Reviews
The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power. By Richard F. Kuisel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. Journal of Modern History 86, 4 (December 2014).
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France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007. By Michael Sutton. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. H-France Review Vol. 10, no. 176 (October 2010).
La démocratie sociale à la française: L’expérience du Conseil national économique, 1924- 1940. By Alain Chatriot. Preface by Pierre Rosanvallon. Paris: La Découverte, 2002. American Historical Review 113, 3 (June 2008).
The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism. By Philippe Roger. Translated by Sharon Bowman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Journal of Modern History 80, 2 (June 2008).
Les politiques du Travail (1906-2006): acteurs, institutions, réseaux. Edited by Alain Chatriot, Odile Join-Lambert, et Vincent Viet. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006. Travail et Emploi 110 (April-June 2007).
Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914-1947. By Paul V. Dutton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. International Labor and Working-Class History 66 (Fall 2004).
The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. By Daniel J. Sherman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Journal of Modern History 75, 2 (June 2003).
Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan. Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Social History 28, 1 (January 2003).
France and the Après Guerre, 1918-1924: Illusions and Disillusionment. By Benjamin F. Martin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. American Historical Review 107, 3 (June 2002).
Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939. By Laura Lee Downs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Journal of Social History (Summer 1999).
Histoire de l'électricité en France Volume 2: L'Interconnexion et le marché 1919-1946. Edited by Maurice Lévy-Leboyer and Henri Morsel. Paris: Fayard, 1994. American Historical Review 101, 5 (December 1996).
Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France, 1914-1918. By John F. Godfrey. New York: Berg, 1987. Labor History 35, 2 (Spring 1994).
The Politics of French Business, 1936-1945. By Richard Vinen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. American Historical Review 98, 5 (December 1993).
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The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954. By Irwin M. Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. International Labor and Working-Class History 45 (Spring 1994).
Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century France: A Social History of the Parisian Gas Company. By Lenard R. Berlanstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. French Politics and Society 10, 4 (Fall 1992).
Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946-1970. By Robert L. Frost. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Business History Review 66, 2 (Summer 1992).
The Politics of Survival: Artisans in Twentieth-Century France. By Steven M. Zdatny. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Journal of Social History 26, 2 (Winter 1992).
The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France. By Jacques Rancière. Translated by John Drury. With an Introduction by Donald Reid. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Journal of Modern History 65, 3 (September 1993).
Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France. By Michael P. Hanagan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Journal of Modern History 65, 3 (September 1993).
France Since the Popular Front: Government and People, 1936-1986. By Maurice Larkin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Journal of Social History 24, 2 (Winter 1990).
And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. By John P. Hoerr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Journal of Social History 23, 3 (Spring 1990).
Crisis in the French Labour Movement: A Grassroots Perspective. By W. Rand Smith. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Labor History 30, 4 (Fall 1989).
Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I. By Kathryn E. Amdur. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Journal of Economic History (October 1988).
INVITED PAPERS, LECTURES, AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic,” a book lecture and discussion at the Maison française, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 31, 2018.
“France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic,” a book lecture and discussion at the National History Center, Washington, DC, April 23, 2018.
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“France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic,” a book lecture and discussion at George Washington University, Washington, DC, April 16, 2018.
Organizer and moderator, “Gender and Capitalism in Twentieth-Century France and the United States,” a panel discussion at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 4, 2018.
Chair of the panel on “Food Products and Alcoholic Beverages in Wartime France (20th Century): New Issues, New Practices?” at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 8-10, 2018.
Participant in a panel discussion of my book, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic, sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Department of History, New York University, February 21, 2018.
Chair and organizer, “After Brexit: Europe Today in Historical Perspective,” a Presidential Panel at the annual meeting of the American History Association, Washington, DC, January 4-7, 2018.
“France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic,” a public lecture at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 17 October 2017.
Panel discussant on Todd Shepard’s Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, September 21, 2017.
“Whither France and the European Union in a Time of Resurgent Nationalism” a lecture at the World Affairs Forum, Greenwich, Conn., April 24, 2017.
Panel chair and commentator, “The Past and Future of European Integration: Brexit, the Euro, Migration, and Mobility,” a round-table discussion at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 20-22, 2017.
“Stig Dagerman and Marty’s Shadow: France in the Liberation Era,” a talk at Scandinavia Hous, New York, March 21, 2017.
Organizer and panel commentator, “The French Resistance in Transnational Perspective,” a symposium at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, February 24, 2017.
Commentator, panel on “Balancing Historical Scales of Analysis in France, 1914-39: Local, Regional, National, and Transnational” at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado, January 5-8, 2017.
“Comparing the Culture of Work in the United States and France,” an invited lecture at the
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Université fédérale de Toulouse – Midi-Pyrénées, Institut National Universitaire Champollion, Laboratoire Francespa (UT2-CNRS) TCF (UNUC), October 21, 2016.
“France’s Long Reconstruction: Comparing Policy Domains after World War II,” an invited lecture at the Université de Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, October 20, 2016.
“L’industrie aéronautique en France pendant des années 1930 et 1940: Innovation, pouvoir, conflit,” an invited lecture given at the Laboratoire Framespa (UMR5136), Université de Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, October 18, 2016.
Commentator on a book chapter draft by Clifford Rosenberg, “The Politics of Privacy: The Long Struggle to Make TB a Reportable Disease,” prepared for the New York French History Group, CUNY, May 3, 2016.
Commentator, panel on “Reassessing Collaboration by Changing the Scale: Three Case Studies in German-French Collaboration,” at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 4-6, 2016.
Commentator on a paper by Nicole Rudolph on “At Home in Postwar France,” Maison Française, Columbia University, February 16, 2016.
Chair, commentator, and member of the Comité scientifique at “Nationalité en guerre/Nationality in War, 1789-1991,” an international conference held in Paris, December 3-4, 2015.
“1945 as a French Year Zero? Rupture and Continuity in Postwar Reconstruction,” an invited lecture at the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, November 9, 2015.
Commentator on a paper by Malek Ghachem, “The Revolt against the Indies Company: Saint Domingue, 1722-1724,” for the Boston Area French History Group, October 19, 2015.
Chair, commentator, and member of the Comité scientifique at “Mains-d’oeuvre en guerre, 1914- 1918: Régulations, territoires, recompositions,” an international conference on labor, employment, and the First World War, held in Paris, May 18-19, 2015.
“French Studies: Travails, Triumphs, and Trajectories,” an invited lecture at a symposium on “Diversity of Languages, Diversity of Outlooks,” at the Biannual Meeting of the College and Research Libraries Association, Portland, OR, March 25, 2015.
Discussant, “Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union,” Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University, February 26-27, 2015.
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“The Long History of Empire in Southeast Asia,” and “Empire and Resistance: French Colonialism in Indochina,” invited lectures for the Harvard Alumni Association, Vietnam and Cambodia tour, December-January, 2014-15.
Discussant, Symposium on Frederick Cooper’s Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 Institute of French Studies, NYU October 2, 2014.
Commentator, panel on “Les Trente Glorieuses and the Territorial Logic of Modernization,” at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada, April 24-27, 2014.
“Democratic Renewal in the Age of Expertise: The Long French Reconstruction, 1944-1962,” a presentation in the “Autour de la France” speaker series, Yale University, April 24, 2013.
“Affirmative Action and Antidiscrimination in France,” a presentation at a symposium on contemporary France, George Washington University, Washington, DC, April 15, 2013.
“State Experts, Pressure Groups, and Popular Protest in the Postwar Reconstruction of France, 1944-1962,” a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Boston, MA, April 4-6, 2013.
“State Authority and Its Discontents in the Era of the Algerian War,” a paper presented at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, March 12, 2013.
Panel speaker at the symposium on “Anti-Tax Movements in France and the U.S.,” hosted by the Institute of French Studies and the Maison française, New York University, October 24, 2012.
Commentator on a paper by Nonna Mayer on “The Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe? The French Case in Perspective,” at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 1, 2011.
Panel speaker at the symposium on “Global French: A New Approach to Literary History,” at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, October 13, 2011.
Panel speaker at the Symposium on the Work of Tony Judt, sponsored by the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University, May 11, 2011.
“Democracy Embattled in the Age of Expertise: The Long French Reconstruction, 1944-1962,” a paper presented at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 28, 2011.
Commentator, panel on “Another ‘Battle of the Rails’: Railways, Nation, and Society in France, 1918-40,” annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, SC, February 10-12, 2011. 10
“A Protest Wave in Historical Perspective: Autumn 2010,” a presentation at the French Library and Culture Center, Boston, January 13, 2011.
“State and Nation in Tony Judt’s Postwar Europe,” a presentation at a symposium on the work of Tony Judt at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 29, 2010.
Presentation on recent trends in American writing about the history of France, for the International Roundtable, “On the Challenges and Opportunities of Historical Research and Training of Historians in the 21st Century,” Peking University, Beijing, China, June 30, 2010.
Commentator on papers at “Responses to Discrimination and Racism: Comparative Perspectives,” a conference at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 9-10, 2010.
“The Algerian War as a Moment in the History of French State-Making,” a paper delivered at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, March 18, 2010.
“Democratic Renewal and the Rule of Experts in France after World War II,” a paper given at the Twentieth-Century History Seminar, Columbia University, December 3, 2009.
Commentator on a paper by Arthur Goldhammer on “The Future of French Culture,” at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 23, 2009.
“Democratic Renewal and the Rule of Experts in France after World War II,” a paper given at the Remarque Institute, New York University, April 10, 2009.
Panelist on “France and the Global Economic Crisis,” a colloquium at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 1, 2009.
Organizer and moderator for “France and the Global Economic Crisis,” a colloquium at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 9, 2009.
Commentator on a paper by Joel Beinin on “Egyptian Workers, 2004-08: A Social Movement on the Margins of the Global Neo-Liberal Economic Order,” research workshop, Kevorkian Center, NYU, November 10, 2008.
“Reformer Dilemmas: Pierre Mendès France and Michel Debré in Search of the Modern Republic,” a paper given at the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge University, May 21, 2008.
“Fifty Years of American Writing about the History of France: In Search of the Social,” a lecture given at a conference on “Why France? The Place of France in American Academia” at
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the Maison française, New York University, March 23, 2007.
Chair and commentator, panel on “Colonization or Reconciliation? French Cultural Policy in Occupied Germany Following the Second World War,” annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Houston, Texas, March 15-17, 2007.
“Why France?”, a panel presentation at the Minda da Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 26, 2007.
Conference organizer, “Refashioning Urban Spaces in Paris and New York for the 21st Century,” sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Maison Française of NYU and the Urban Studies Program of Fordham University, April 28-29, 2006.
“Les projets sociaux de l’après Second Guerre mondiale: réussites et échecs,” a paper presented at an international conference convened for the centenary of the French Labor Ministry entitled “Élaborations et mises en oeuvre des politiques du travail: le ministère du Travail et la société française au XXe siècle,” Paris, 18-19 May 2006.
Participant by invitation in small conference on “The Future of Europe’s Past,” Kanderstag, Switzerland, March 30-April 1, 2006.
“Les petits commerçants et l’État de la révolte poujadiste au début de la Ve République,” a paper for a conference on “Les PME dans les Sociétés européennes de 1880 à nos jours: pouvoir, représentation, action,” at the Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon/Sorbonne, Paris, January 20-21, 2006.
Panel member on “Perspectives on the Riots in France,” a colloquium at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, November 30, 2005.
“France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?” a paper presented at “Revisiting the Liberation: France 1944-47,” a conference organized by the Centre for the Advanced Study of French History, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, September 16-17, 2005.
Commentator on a paper by David Montgomery on “The Workers Movement and Imperialism,” given at the Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History, Tamiment Library, New York University, April 13, 2005.
“Policy Intellectuals in Search of the State in Post-Liberation France: The Case of Michel Debré,” a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of French Historical Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 17-19, 2005.
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“Marketplace Politics: Shopkeepers, Tax Reformers, and the Regulation of the Retail Trade,” a paper presented on March 18, 2004 to the seminar on “Ruptures et continuités en 1945” at the Centre d’Histoire sociale du 20ème siècle (Université de Paris I – Sorbonne) and on April 14, 2004 to the joint research workshop of the Institute of French Studies and the Europeanist group of the History Department at New York University.
“Opening the Nicolas Wahl Papers,” a talk and exhibition essays at Bobst Library, New York University, November 6, 2003.
Discussant, “The Republican Model.” A panel at “The New Cleavages in France,” a conference jointly organized by the Program in European Politics and Society, Princeton University, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Princeton, NJ, October 9-12, 2003.
Conference organizer, “A Political Earthquake in France: The Elections of 2002,” Institute of French Studies, NYU, November 15, 2002.
“Immigration and the Regulation of Labor after the Liberation of France,” a paper for the visiting lecture series, Department of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, October 17, 2002.
Discussant, “Transmitting National Identity: Broadcast Media in Modern France.” A panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April 11-14, 2002.
“Labor Market Regulation, Immigration, and State-Making after the Liberation of France,” A paper presented at the Conference of Europeanists, Council of European Studies, Chicago, Illinois, March 14-16, 2002.
“Réformateurs et contestataires de l’impôt après la seconde guerre mondiale,” a paper at a conference on “L’impôt en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles,” organized by the Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France and held at the Ministry of Finance in Paris (Bercy), 2-4 May 2001.
“The Nicholas Wahl Papers at Bobst Library: Possibilities for Research,” a lecture at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 18, 2001.
Discussant, “Media and Cultural Politics in the Popular Front.” A panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society of French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 8-10, 2001.
“Building Postwar France: Technocrats, Pressure Groups, and State Authority in the Reconstruction of France after World War II.” A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, Arizona, April 1, 2000.
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Discussant for a session on European state building and nationalism, Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 30, 1998.
Discussant, "'I'll Take this Razor to Your Throat' and Other Episodes in Early-Twentieth- Century Labor Reform." A panel at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Society of French Historical Studies, Ottawa, Canada, March 26-28, 1998.
Discussant, "Upheaval and Defeat in the Aftermath of World War II: Operation Dixie and the German Democratic Republic." A panel at the Tenth Southern Labor Studies Conference, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 25-28, 1997.
"Welfare State Building after the Liberation of France, 1945-1950." A lecture at the Center for European Studies, Princeton University, April 23, 1997.
Conference organizer and discussant, "A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century?" An interdisciplinary conference at New York University and Columbia University, February 9-10, 1996.
"Shopkeepers, Market Regulation and the State: Reassessing the Tax Revolts of the Fourth Republic." A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23-25, 1995.
Conference organizer and discussant, "Working on France: French Civilization in American Universities." An interdisciplinary conference on recent trends in research on France, held at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 29-30, 1994.
Discussant, "Mass Production and Flexibility at War." A panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Washington, D.C., October 14-17, 1993.
"State-Building and Social Policy in Twentieth-Century France." A presentation to the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on the History of the Twentieth Century, New York, January 25, 1993.
"Recasting Work and Class Identities in Interwar France." A presentation at the Fourteenth Annual North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 16-17, 1992.
"French Democracy and the Welfare State." A paper for a conference on "The Social Construction of Democracy," Pittsburgh Center for Social History, May 2-3, 1992.
Chair and discussant, "Twentieth-Century Colonialism and the Culture of Social Engineering." A panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 27-30, 1991.
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"Aircraft Workers in Britain and France between the World Wars." A presentation to the University Research Seminar on Technology and Social Change, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2, 1991.
"Change and Continuity in the Contemporary French Economy," A presentation at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, April 29, 1991.
"The French Economy: Current Conditions and Future Prospects." A presentation to the Inter- University Consortium for Social Research on France, New York University, February 9, 1991.
"Community Politics in American and German Industrial Regions." A presentation at a conference on "Steel and Coal Communities in Comparative Perspective, 1890-1990: The United States and Germany," Pittsburgh Center for Social History, April 20-22, 1990.
"State-Society Relations in France from the Popular Front to the Postwar Order, 1936-1954." A presentation to the Pittsburgh Center for Social History, December 5, 1989.
"Revolutionary Commemoration as Contested Terrain from the Popular Front to the Fourth Republic." A paper presented at the International Congress on the History of the French Revolution, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 3-6, 1989.
Chair and discussant, "International Perspectives on Ideological Divisions within the Labor Movement." A panel at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 3-6, 1988.
Discussant, "The Bicentennial of the French Revolution." A panel comparing the enduring consequences of the French and American Revolutions, at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2-4, 1988.
"Skilled Workers and the Politics of Technological Change in Interwar France." A presentation at Wellesley College, April 26, 1988.
"Working-Class Radicalism and State Capitalism in Twentieth-Century France." A presentation at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, November 24, 1987, and to the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 25, 1988.
Chair and discussant, "Constructing Society: Planning and Social Intervention in Interwar Europe." A panel at the Sixth International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., October 30-November 1, 1987.
"The Privatization of French Industry," a presentation to the Inter-University Consortium for Social Research on France, New York University, February 7, 1987.
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"The Politics of the Labor Process: French Aircraft Workers and Rationalization on the Eve of the Second World War." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 24-26, 1986.
"Workers, Militants and Politics: The French Aircraft Industry During the Popular Front, 1934- 1938." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 6-7, 1984.
"Economic Renovation and Social Reform: The Politics of Nationalization in the French Aircraft Industry, 1936-1950." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October 27-30, 1983.
"Labor Militance and the State in Twentieth-Century France: The Case of the French Aircraft Industry, 1930-1950." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1982.
Discussant, "Representation and the State: Problems of Governability and Legitimacy in Western European Democracies." An international conference at Stanford University, October 11-15, 1982.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Conseil scientifique, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Université Paris-Saclay, 2016 to the present.
French doctoral thesis jury [soutenance de thèse], École normale supérieure, November 30, 2017, of Sarah Kolopp, “Le Trésor et ses mondes (1966-1995): Contribution à une sociologie relationnelle de l’État.”
Comité scientifique, “La nationalité en guerre,” an international conference on war and nationality in the twentieth century. Paris, December 2015.
Comité scientifique, “Mains-d’oeuvre en guerre, 1914-1918: Régulations, territoires, recompositions,” an international conference on labor, employment, and the First World War, held in Paris, France, May 18-19, 2015.
Editorial board (Comité scientifique) of the journal Histoire et Patrimoine de l’Aéronautique et du Spatial (HEPAS), 2014-present.
Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, for three-year term (2011-13), chair 2013.
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American Historical Association, ballot candidate for the nominating committee, 2011.
French doctoral thesis jury [soutenance de thèse], Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, November 13, 2009, of Nicolas Delalande, “Consentement et résistance à l’impôt: L’État, les citoyens et le problème de la confiance sous la IIIe République.”
Committee on Research Networks, Council for European Studies, 2009.
First Book Prize Committee, Council for European Studies, 2005-2006.
Comité scientifique of the international conference convened for the centenary of the French Labor Ministry entitled “Élaborations et mises en oeuvre des politiques du travail: le ministère du Travail et la société française au XXe siècle,” Paris, 18-19 May 2006.
Comité scientifique of the Dictionnaire Charles de Gaulle, to be published by Editions Robert Laffont in 2006.
Program Committee for the 50th Anniversary Congress of the Society for French Historical Studies, June 17-20, 2004, Paris. Also chaired panel on “Les historiens français et l’événement du 21 avril 2002: que peut la recherché?”
French doctoral thesis jury [soutenance de thèse], Université de Paris X – Nanterre, December 18, 2003, of Frédéric Tristram, “La direction générale des Impôts et la politique fiscale en France de 1948 à la fin des années 1960.”
Teachers as Scholars program, School of Education, Harvard University. Teaching seminar for secondary school teachers on “Reckoning with the Second World War: Reconstruction and Remembrance in Germany and France,” spring 1999 and fall 2000.
Higby Prize committee member, Journal of Modern History, 1998.
Editorial Board of French Historical Studies, 1995-1998.
Principal Historical Adviser for the ABC documentary series, "The Twentieth Century," 1993- 98, and for The Century, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (New York: Doubleday, 1998).
Inter-University Consortium for Social Research on France, Institute of French Studies, New York University, 1986-1992.
Research Group on Wars, War Settlements and State Structures, Social Science Research Council, 1985-87.
Western European Screening Committee, International Research Fellowship Program, Social
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Science Research Council, 1982-85.
Referee on articles, book manuscripts and grant applications for The American Historical Review; The Journal of Modern History; The Journal of Social History; French Historical Studies; Modern and Contemporary France; Contemporary European History; Comparative Studies of Society and History; The American Journal of Sociology; Science, Technology, and Human Values; Labour History Review; Labor Studies Journal; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Radical History Review; university presses; the National Endowment of the Humanities; and the National Science Foundation; the Bourses Chateaubriand.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (NYU)
Department of History: search committee chair (2015-16), Graduate studies advisory committee (2013-14), policy and advisory committee (elected; 2009-2011), promotion committee (2011), tenure committee (2010-11), chair, awards and fellowships committee (2010-11), tenure committee (2009), grants and prizes committee (2008), promotion committee (2006), graduate admissions and financial aid committee (2002), search committee chair (2000), graduate financial aid committee (2000), tenure committee chair (1999), tenure committee (1998), planning committee (1997, 1999), placement officer (1995).
Institute of French Studies: Director of Graduate Studies (1992-93, 1995-96, 1999-2006, 2008- 2011, 2017-2018); Interim Director (1996-98, 2006-07, 2013-14).
NYU and CNRS Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS): fellowship selection committee (2016)
University Committees: committee on student discipline (2006-2009); dean’s task force on graduate student financial aid (1998).
Board Member, Remarque Institute (1996-2010).
Board Member, Center for European Studies (1996-2000).
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