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CHRISTY PICHICHERO, Ph.D. www.christypichichero.com 4400 University Drive, MSN 3E5 2809 Dumbarton Street NW Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Washington, DC 20007 703.993.1220 (office), 703.993.1245 (fax) 415.533.8237 (cell) [email protected] [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of History and French, George Mason University (GMU), August 2018-present. Academic Affiliations: Women and Gender Studies, War and the Military in Society, African and African American Studies. Assistant Professor of French, GMU, August 2011-April 2018. Associate Director (Director, Mills Campus), Middlebury French School, Middlebury College, August 2010-August 2011. Postdoctoral Fellow, Introduction to the Humanities Program, Stanford University, September 2008-June 2011. Summer Faculty, Middlebury French School, Middlebury College (Mills College Campus), June-August 2010. EDUCATION ‘ Stanford University, Stanford, California Ph.D. in French Studies, 2008 Dissertation: Battles of the Self: War and Subjectivity in Early-Modern France Committee: Keith Baker, Dan Edelstein, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Visiting student researcher, Spring 2006 King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England King’s College visiting junior fellow, Fall 2005 Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York B.M. Magna Cum Laude in Applied Music (Voice - mezzosoprano), 2000 Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey A.B. in Comparative Literature; Certificate in Italian, 1998 MONOGRAPHS The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017; paperback, 2021). Chinese translation: China Renmin University Press (forthcoming, 2022). Finalist for the 2018 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize for best interdisciplinary book in eighteenth-century studies. Reviews: featured review in the American Historical Review, French Studies, French History, The Journal of Military History, The Historian, The English Historical Review, Choice, H-France, H-War, H-Soz-Kult, Francia Recensio. Black | Power: Race and Privilege in Early Modern France—in progress. Nominated by GMU for NEH Summer Stipend. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS “Watteau and the Dutch Origins of Military Enlightenment”—in progress. “Guibert et la figure du militaire philosophe”—in progress. “Afrofeminist Microhistories and the Making of Modern Black French Identities,” Special Issue: “France and Post-Racial Utopia,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies—in progress. “Language, Poetry, and Rhetoric: 1650-1800” in A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment, eds. Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter Struck (under contract with Bloomsbury Press)—forthcoming. “Critical Race Theory and the Multicultural French Enlightenment,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 49 (2020), 137-143. “Pierre Corneille and Military Drama: Power, Potlatch, Mérite,” Modern Language Notes, Volume 132, Number 4 (September 2017), 1090-1117. “Thinking about Caring: Culture, Methods, History,” The Bloomington Workshop Proceedings, Number 4 (2016), 108-112. “Words of the ‘Wise Captain’: Corneille, Le Cid, and Fidelity,” Renaissance Drama, Volume 43, Number 1 (Spring 2015), 27-52. “Moralizing War: Military Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France” in France and Its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image, eds. Daniel Brewer and Patricia Lorcin (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 13-27 – peer-reviewed. Christy Pichichero, curriculum vitae, p.1 “Le Soldat Sensible: Military Psychology and Social Egalitarianism in the Enlightenment French Army,” French Historical Studies, Volume 31, Number 4 (Fall 2008), 553-580. EDITED COLLECTIONS The Military Enlightenment: Global Perspectives, ed. with Huw Davies (interest from Cambridge University Press)—in progress. Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World Today, ed. with Emily Marker, H-FRANCE SALON. Part I: Scholarship, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2019)—https://h-france.net/h-france-salon-volume-11-2019/#1102 Part II: the Profession, Volume 12, Issue 1 (2020)—https://h-france.net/h-france-salon-volume-12-2020/#1201 Part III: Teaching—in progress. The Tallahassee Report: Rethinking Graduate Education in Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary French History, Co- editor (with Dena Goodman, Sara Maza, Cathy McClive, Paris Spies-Gans), H-FRANCE SALON, Vol. 10, No. 11 (2018). TRANSLATIONS, THOUGHT LEADERSHIP PIECES, PUBLIC LECTURES, PODCASTS “The Military Enlightenment,” New Books in French Studies podcast, hosted by Roxanne Panchasi—forthcoming. “ACADISCRI Climate Survey of Work and Study Conditions in French Institutions of Higher Education and Research,” French language sociological study by Abdellali Hajjat, Marguerite Cognet, and Cécile Rodrigues. January 10, 2021 (27,173 words). “Five Steps that Each of Us Can Take to Proactively Help Heal Our Country,” Authority Magazine, January 11, 2021. Napoleonic Quarterly podcast (UK), hosted by Alex Stevenson, January 2021. “1792: Slavery and Saint-Domingue in the First French Empire” “1793: Toussaint Louverture and Saint-Domingue in the Crucible of Global War” “1794: The First Abolition of Slavery: Causes, Questions, Lived Experiences” “Special Interview: Christy Pichichero: On The Military Enlightenment and Reflections on Black Lives Matter in 2020” C-SPAN televised lecture, American History Series. “The American Revolution and the French Military Enlightenment,” the American Revolution Institute, Washington, DC, October 10, 2019. Public lecture. “The Military Enlightenment,” Alliance Française de Washington, February 22, 2019. The Frick Collection public lecture. “Watteau’s Soldiers: Bodies, War, and Enlightenment,” New York, NY, September 21, 2016. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS CHSS Research Award and Sabbatical Grant, GMU, Fall 2020. University Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing, GMU, 2018-2019. Mathy Junior Faculty Award, GMU, 2015-2016. Tyree-Lamb Fellowship, The Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, DC, 2015. G.J. Lieberman Fellowship for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service, Stanford University, 2007-2008. West Point Military Academy, West Point, New York. Summer Seminar Fellowship in Military History, 2007. Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2006-2007. Georges Lurcy Fellowship for Research in France, 2005-2006. Cambridge University, King’s College, Cambridge, England. Visiting junior fellow, 2005-2006. École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Exchange Award, 2005-2006. William Warfield Scholarship for African-American Singers, The Eastman School of Music, 1998-2000. RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS Early Modern, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, and Music of the French Empire; War and Culture; Critical Race and Critical Mixed Race Studies; Human Rights and Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing and History; History of News and Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy and Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing; Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Mentoring; Grad Student Recruitment and Mentoring, Academic and Community Activism, Academe and Politics. EDITORIAL BOARDS, REFEREEING, AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Editorial Boards: Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment; La Révolution Française (La Sorbonne, France); Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Associate Editor of French, University of Toronto Press). Referee: PMLA, French Historical Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, French History, European History Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Palgrave, Cornell University Press, Journal of Military History, International Journal of Military History and Historiography. Christy Pichichero, curriculum vitae, p.2 Member: MLA, AHA, African American Intellectual History Society, American Soc. for Eighteenth-Cen. Studies, Soc. for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, Soc. for Military History, Western Soc. for French History, Soc. for French Historical Studies, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. PLENARIES, PRESIDENTIAL SESSIONS, INVITED TALKS Invited lecture. “Race, Gender, and Docile Bodies in Eighteenth-Century France.” UK Modern History French Seminar, April 26, 2021. Invited lecture. “Race and the Docile Body: Politics of Blackness, Social Justice, and the Law in the Eighteenth-Century French Military.” Race, Law, Justice: Toward a History of the Present, Center for Critical Democracy Studies, the American University of Paris, Paris, France, March 22, 2021. Invited lecture. “Inventing the Chevalier de Saint-George: Sex, Race, Power, and Celebrity,” Bowdoin College, December 4, 2020. Invited lecture. “Black | Power: Race and Global War in the Early Modern French Empire,” Centre for French History and Culture, University of St Andrews, November 18, 2020. Plenary commentator. “On Race and the French Revolution,” Besterman Lecture, Voltaire Foundation/Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, November 19, 2020. Cadenhead-Settle Memorial Lecture. “Black | Power: Race, Empire, and Privilege in Eighteenth-Century France,” University of Tulsa, March 3, 2020. Conference plenary lecture. “Military Enlightenment and Social Justice in an Age of Empire,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. February 2020. Invited lecture. “Black | Power: Race and Privilege in Enlightenment France,” the American