Gary Wilder Curriculum Vitae Ph.D. Program in Ph.D. Program in History The Graudate Center, City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309 phone: (212) 817-8012 or 8005 fax: (212) 817-1501 email: [email protected]

Education Joint Ph.D. Anthropology Department and History Department, , 1999 M.A. Anthropology Department, University of Chicago, 1992 B.A. , School of Arts and Sciences, “Distinction in All Subjects,” 1986 Semester in Paris, Reid Hall (/Université de Paris VII) Fall 1984

Academic Positions Director, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2011-present Professor, Ph.D. Programs in Anthropology, History, French, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2015-present Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2014-2015 Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009-2015 Steering Committee, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2010-2011 Steering Committee, Center for Humanities, Graduate Center, City University of New York 2010-present Associate Professor, History Department, Pomona College, 2005-2009 Steering Committee, Cultural Studies Department, Claremont Graduate University, 2006, 2008- 2009 Associated Graduate Faculty, History Department, Claremont Graduate University, 2000, 2004- 2009 Assistant Professor, History Department, Pomona College, 1999-2005 Instructor, History Department, Pomona College, 1998-1999

Fellowships, Grants, Honors Mellon Foundation, New Directions Follow-Up Grant, 2012 Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, 2007-2008 Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2006-2010 Participant, Seminar on Experimental Critical Theory, “Present Tense: Empires, Race, Bio- Politics,” University of California Irvine, August 2005 Pomona College Steele Fellowship, Spring and Fall 2003 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Fall 2002 Pomona College Research Grant, Summer 2001 NEH Summer Research Assistant, Summer 2000 Pomona College Research Grant, Summer 2000

Pomona College Research Grant, Summer 1999 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998 Von Holst Prize Lectureship, History Department, University of Chicago, Spring 1996 William Rainer Harper Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Chicago 1996-1997 MacArthur Scholars Dissertation Fellowship, Council for Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation, University of Chicago, 1995-1996 U.S. Fulbright IIE Grant – France, 1994-1995 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship 1994-1995 Lurcy Foundation Fellowship for Study in France, 1994 (declined) National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1994 University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship, 1990-1991

Courses Taught History of Anthropological Theory Negritude Contemporary Anthropological Theory European Social Thought Heterodox Marxism and Modernity Black Atlantic Political Imagination Hannah Arendt and Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, Justice Europe Since 1789 Decolonization Globalization and Post-Cold War Africa Topics in Modern Europe: The French The Social Life of Time Nation-State History and Politics of Time Topics in Modern Europe: The Production Archival Methods for Anthropologists of Space Postcolonial France Topics in Modern Europe: What About The French Empire Welfare? Europe From the Periphery: Imperial Senior History Thesis Writing Seminar, Projects and Colonial Societies Pomona College Race and Racism in Modern Europe

Publications Books Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Duke University Press, 2015.

The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Co-Edited The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present. Co-edited with Jini Kim Watson. Fordham University Press, 2018.

Theses on Theory and History. Co-authored with Ethan Kleinberg and Joan Wallach Scott. Open Source Digital publication available at theoryrevolt.org

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A Reader: The Struggle for Life is the Matter. Co-edited with Mariana Coronil, Laurent Du Bois, Paul Eiss, Edward Murphy, David Pedersen, and Julie Skurski. Duke University Press, 2019.

Books In Progress: “Untimely History, Unhomely Times: On The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity”

“More Abundant Life: Black Radical Humanism and the Atlantic World”

Journal Articles “The Place of Time in the Practice of History,” revise and resubmit, History and Theory. Comment for Symposium on Ayça Çubukçu, For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). Humanity Journal Blog, March 11, 2019. “Anticipation,” Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon (2017) “Making Freedom Time,” History of the Present Vol. 7, no. 7 (Spring 2017): 122-37. “The Promise of Freedom and the Predicament of Marronage,” Review Essay of Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage in Small Axe Salon (February 2017) “Here/Hear Now Aimé Césaire!,” South Atlantic Quarterly Special Issue on “Aimé Césaire and Negritude” edited by Michaeline Crichlow and Gregson Davis 115:3 (July 2016): 585- 604. “Temporalizing the Postcolonial Present.” Review essay of David Scott, Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol. 20, no. 1 (2015): 189-200. “Telling Histories: A Conversation with Laurent Dubois and Greg Grandin.” Radical History Review Special Issue on Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives, 115 (Winter 2013): 11-25. “From Optic to Topic: The Foreclosure Effect in Historiographic Turns.” In Forum on “Historiographic “Turns” in Critical Perspective,” American Historical Review, Vol. 117, no. 3 (June 2012): 723-745 “Untimely Vision: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia.” Public Culture 21: 1 (Winter 2009): 101-40. “Aimé Césaire: Contra Commemoration,” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 2: 1 (January 2009): 121-123. “Race, Reason, Impasse: Césaire, Fanon, and the Legacy of Emancipation.” Radical History Review 90 (September 2004): 31-58. Republished in a shorter French version as “Race, raison, impasse: Césaire, Fanon, et l’héritage de l’émancipation.” In Esclavage, colonisation, et après, eds. Patrick Weil and Stéphane Dufoix. Paris, PUF, 2005. “Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality in French West Africa.” History and Anthropology, 14: 3 (2003): 219-52. Republished in a shorter version in European Imperialism and the Ordering of Africa, eds. Helen Tilley and Robert J. Gordon. University of Manchester Press, 2007. “Framing Greater France,”" Journal of Historical Sociology 14: 2 June 2001:198-225.

Book Chapters and Other Essays “Solidarity,” Political Concepts: Balibar Edition, ed. et. al. (under contract Fordham University Press)

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“Decolonization and Postnational Democracy,” in Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, eds. Andrew Arato, Jean Cohen, and Astrid von Busekist (Columbia University Press, 2018) “Thinking with Aimé Césaire,” The Work of Man Has Just Begun: Legacies of Césaire. December 2013. http://cesairelegacies.cdrs.columbia.edu/political-legacy/ “Historical Constellations and Political Futures (Past).” The Work of Man Has Just Begun: Legacies of Césaire. December 2013. http://cesairelegacies.cdrs.columbia.edu/political- legacy/ “Decolonizing France: L.S. Senghor’s Redemptive Program for African Socialism” in Endless Empire: Europe's Eclipse, America's Ascent, and Decline of U.S. Global Power, eds. Alfred McCoy, Stephen Jacobson, Josep Fradera. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. “Eurafrique as the Future Past of Black France: Recognizing Léopold Sedar Senghor's Postwar Vision,” in Keaton, Trica Danielle, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds., Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness. Duke University Press, 2012. “Regarding the Imperial Nation-State.” H-France Forum Vol. 1, Issue 3 (Summer 2006) [http://h-france.net/forum/h-franceforum.html]. Response Essay to four review essays on The French Imperial Nation-State published as a special forum by the Society for French Historical Studies. “Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere.” In The Color of Liberty:Histories of Race in France, eds. Tyler Stovall and Sue Peabody. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, 237-58. “Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies Beyond National Identity.” In After the Imperial Turn: Critical Approaches to 'National' Histories and Literatures, ed. Antoinette Burton. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, 125-43. Republished in French in an expanded version as "‘Impenser’ l'histoire de France: Les études coloniales hors de la perspective de l'identité nationale," Cahiers d'histoire: Revue d'histoire critique 96-97 October, November, December 2005: 91-119. “Practicing Citizenship in Imperial Paris.” In Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives, eds. John L. and Jean Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, 44-71. “The Politics of Failure: Historicizing Popular Front Colonial Policy in French West Africa.” In French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front: Hope and Disillusion, eds. Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur. New York: Saint Martins Press, 1999, 33-55. “Irreconcilable Differences: A Conversation with Albert Memmi” Transition 71, Fall 1996.

Non-Academic Media “If You Want to Build an Alternative to Trumpism, You Need to Read Black Freedom Fighter W.E.B. Du Bois,” Open Democracy: Free Thinking for the World, May 2017 “Apart Together,” Aeon Magazine, September 2015 Q&A on Freedom Time, New Texts Out Now, Jadaliyya, August 2015 Podcast Interview on Freedom Time, New Books in French Studies, June 2015 “Mandela’s Uncertain Legacy,” Committee on Globalization and Social Change Blog, January 2014 “Fernando Coronil: In Memoriam,” Committee on Globalization and Social Change Blog, August 2011

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“The Last Dreyfusard.” Review Essay on Alain Finkielkraut. Village Voice Literary Supplement no.138, September 1995. “L’Homme de 13 Janvier: The Animation of Tradition and the Postcolonial Social Contract,” Columbia Literary Magazine No. 15, 1990.

Book Reviews Review of Jane Hiddleston, Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture and Humanism at the End of the French Empire. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2014. New West India Guide 90-3&4 (2016): 338-40. Review of Philip S. Gorski, ed. Bourdieu and Historical Analysis. Duke University Press, 2013. The American Historical Review 119, no. 5 (December 2014): 1643-44. “Featured Review” of Emmanuelle Saada, Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. The American Historical Review Vol. 118, no. 2 (April 2013): 468-470. Review of Paige Arthur, Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and and Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Verso Books, 2010. The American Historical Review, Vol. 116, no. 4 (October 2011): 1209-10. Review of Ruth Ginio, French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. The American Historical Review Vol. 112, no. 2 (April 2007): 626-27 Review of French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race. Eds, Tyler Stovall and Georges van den Abbeele. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003. Journal of Modern History 78 (2 ) June 2006: 503-505. Review of Brett A. Berliner, Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-Age France, Journal of Modern History 77 (2) June 2005: 443-45. Review of James D. Le Seuer, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria, American Ethnologist, 30 (3) August 2003. Review of Edward G. Declair, Politics on the Fringe: The People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front, Journal of Modern History 73 (1) March 2001: 186-89.

Professional Presentations Invited Talks and Papers “There is No Outside: The Practice of Marronage and the Problem of Freedom,” Penser le marronnage:Vers une autre histoire de l’émancipation/ Thinking Marronage: Towards Another History of Emancipation, Reid Hall, Columbia University, Paris, November 2019 “More Abundant Life, or After the Revolution: Black Radical Humanism and the Problem of History,” Public Lecture, Interdisciplinary Committee for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 2019 “Decolonization and Postnational Democracy (Beyond Left Realism),” Workshop Presentation, Interdisciplinary Committee for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 2019 Roundtable Discussion of Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiuem for Late Liberalism, Anthropology Department, Columbia University, October 2010

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“For a Prophetic View of the Past: Glissant on Nonhistory and Painful Time,” Workshop on Space, Sovereignty, and Aesthetics: Greece and Europe in the World, Hosted by Simon Fraser University and Rutgers University in Lesbos, Greece, June 2019 Discussant, Manuscript Workshop, Anuja Bose, “ and the Politics of Solidarity,” Politics Department, Princeton University, May 2019 “The Role of Theory in Critical History,” Critical Theory Workshop’s Spring Symposium on Counter-History and Theory, University of Pennsylvania, April 2019 “Black Radical Humanism and the Problem of Freedom,” Genealogies of Freedom Conference, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas, Austin, April 2019 “Theory Today’ Invited Panel, American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2019 “On Freedom and Radical Imagination: A Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley,” Invited Panel, American Anthropological Association, San José, November 2018 “Theory Revolt,” Public Discussion of Theses on Theory and History, Committee on Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, October, 2018 “After the Revolution: Black Radical Humanism and the Good Life,” Radical Critical Theory Circle 2018 Seminar: Capitalism and Its Others, Nysiros, Greece June 2018 “Concepts and Critique,” Opening Comments for Political Concepts Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2018 “Cosmopolitanism/Internationalism,” Cultures of the Contemporary African Diaspora Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, April, 2018 "After the Revolution: Black Radicalism, Radical Humanism and the Good Life,” Racial Inequalities Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, March, 2018 “For an Untimely History of the Present,” Plural Temporalities and Anachronisms: The Marxist Tradition Against the Grain, Next Generation Global Studies/Dept. of Political Science, University of Padua, Padua Italy, December 2017 “After the Revolution: Radical Humanism, Black Radicalism, and the Good Life,” Keynote Lecture, Reinventing Revolution Conference, Gallatin NYU, November 2017 “Black Radical(human)ism: Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth,” Anthropology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2017 “More Abundant Life: Black Radical(human)ism and the Atlantic World,” Workshop on “The Contemporary African Diaspora: Traveling Cultures in the New Black Atlantic,” John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, June 2017 “Black Radical(human)ism: Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth” Freedom: A Mellon- Sawyer Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, May 2017 “The Place of Time in the Practice of History,” European Politics and History Workshop, Columbia University, March, 2017 “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Dubois’s Cooperative Commonwealth,” Marxist Working Group, , Ann Arbor, March 2017 Discussion of Freedom Time, Marxist Working Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 2017 “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Dubois’s Cooperative Commonwealth,” Center for Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, February 2017 “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Dubois’s Cooperative Commonwealth,” Anthropology Department, , scheduled February 2017

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Public discussion with author of Souleymane Bachir Diagne, The Ink of Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, February 2017 “Solidarity,” Political Concepts Conference: Balibar Edition, Brown University, December 2016 “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Dubois’s Cooperative Commonwealth,” History and French Departments, Cornell University, October 2016 Graduate Student Workshop on Freedom Time, History and French Departments, Cornell University, October 2016 Graduate Student Seminar on Freedom Time, English, New York University, October 2016 “Cooperative Commonwealth: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Radical Humanism,” Politics Department, New School for Social Research, September 2016 “Decolonization and Postnational Democracy,” Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism conference, Sciences Politiques and Reid Hall, Paris, France, June 2016 “Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism,” The Radical Critical theory Circie Seminar, Nysiros, Greece, June 2016 “Decolonizing France: African Socialism and the Future of the World,” Anthropology Department, University of Chicago, May 2016 “Decolonizing France: African Socialism and the Future of the World,” Anthropology Department, Johns Hopkins University, April 2016 Freedom Time, Public discussion of book with Dominic Thomas, Dept. of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA, April 2016 “Anticipation,” Political Concepts Conference, New York University, April 2016 Freedom Time, Panel Discussion of book with Michel Giraud, Syliane Larcher, and Miranda Spieler, American University in Paris, France, February 2016 “Here/Heare Now Aimé Césaire,” French Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Brown University, October 2015 Freedom Time Panel Discussion of book with Étienne Balibar, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and Gayatri Spivak, Maison Française, Institute of African Studies, Institute for Comparative Literatue and Society, Columbia University, October 2015 “Decolonization and Postnational Democracy,” Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, September 2015 Webinar on French Intellectual History with Samuel Moyn and Sophia Rosenfeld, H-France, September 2015 “Freedom Time,” Book Discussion, Center for Place Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, September 2015 “Freedom Time,” Book Talk, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Wits University, South Africa, July 2015 “Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World,” Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group, Center for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics, May 2015 Decolonization in West Africa, Graduate Workshop Discussion, Graduate School of History, University of Basel, Switzerland, May 2015 “The Place of Time in the Practice of History,” Graduate School of History, University of Basel, Switzerland, May 2015

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Freedom Time Workshop Discussion, Center for Internaitonal History, Columbia University, May 2015 “Ethics, Politics, and a Better Life,” Introductory Remarks, Thinking Through Tradition, Politics, and Violence Symposium, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, April 2015 “Making Freedom Time,” History of a Book Series, Department of English and Center for African American Studies, Princeton, April, 2015 “The Place of Time in the Practice of History,” The International and Comparative Law Center, Mississippi College School of Law, March 2015 Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World, Panel discussion on book with Anthony Alessandrini, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Fouad Makki, Nick Nesbitt, and Judith Surkis, February 2015 “Negritude and/as Romantic Anticapitalism,” Workshop on Critical Theory and (Post)Colonialism, Cornell University, December 2014 “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World,” History Department, Scripps College, November 2014 “Decolonizing France: African Socialism and the Fate of the World,“ History Department Seminar, Johns Hopkins, March 2014 Comment on Roundtable discussion with Ann Laura Stoler on “Imperial Debris,” Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center, February 2014 “Decolonizing France: African Socialism and the Fate of the World,“ Beyond France Seminar, Columbia University, January 2014 “Thinking with Aimé Césaire,” The Work of Man Has Just Begun: Legacies of Césaire conference, Maison Française, Columbia University, December 2013 “Hear/Here Now Aimé Césaire!” Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, November 2013 “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World,” Plotting Internationalism Symposium, Duke University, November 2013 “Political Pragmatism, Radical Literalism, Situated Humanism,” Aimé Césaire & Negritude conference, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Duke University, October 2013 “The Dialectics of Anticipation: Calling For and Calling Forth,” Seminar on Anticipation and its Temporalities: An International Discussion, Next Century Global Studies, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche et Studi Internazionali, University of Padua, Italy, September 2013 “Decolonizing France, De-Provincializing Africa,” Emplacing the Local Series, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, May 2013 (talk and seminar) “Preliminary Reflections on the Politics of Time,” Opening Comments for Contemporality: A Symposium on Politics, Time, and Thought, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2013 “Turning Empire Inside Out: Césaire, Senghor, and the Politics of Radical Literalism,” Archeologies of “Frenchness” Conference, Anthropology Department, University of Chicago, April 2013 “Rethinking Violence as a Political Metric,” Violence and Empire: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, March 2013

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“Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World,” Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, College of Humanities, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, November 2012 “Time: Postwar Opening and Temporal Refraction,” Global History and Political Futures Seminar, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, November 2012 “Situating Césaire: Pragmatics of Freedom and the Proleptic Politics of Radical Literalism,” Postcolonial Symposium, New York University, April 2012 “The Joy of Thinking and the Pleasure of the Context: Fernando Coronil’s Intellectual Practice,” A Commemoration of the Life and Work of Fernando Coronil, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan, April 2012 “Preliminary Reflections on the Concept of Solidarity,” Faculty Seminar, Committee on Globalizaiton and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center, January 2012 “From Optic to Topic: The Foreclosure Effect in Historiographic Turns.” Production of History Workshop, Graduate Center, City University of New York, December 2011 “Decolonizing France, Redeeming the World: On L.S. Sengohr’s Postwar Political Thought,” Boas Seminar, Anthropology Department, Columbia University, October 2011 “From Comparison to Constellation: Empire and Global Intellectual History,” Comparing: A Doctoral School in the Humanities, University College Cork, Ireland September 2011 “African Socialism as Political Theology: Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Redemptive Vision of Decolonization,” New York Area Seminar in Intellectual and Cultural History, December 2010 “Unthinking French Studies,” Keynote Address, Workshop on The Becoming Transnational of French Studies, Forum for French Transcultural Studies, University of Stirling, Scotland, June 2010 “Decolonizing France: L.S. Senghor’s African Socialism Revisited,” conference on Eclipse of Empires: Colonial Resistance, Metropolitan Decline, and Imperial Crises in the XIX and XX Centuries, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2010 Discussant for Yoav DiCapua “The Arab Experience of Existentialism,” Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU, April 2010 “African Socialism as Political Theology: Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Redemptive Vision of Decolonization,” Atlantic Studies Seminar, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2010 “Unthinking France, Working Through Empire,” Institute of French Studies, NYU, April 2010 “African Socialism as Political Theology: Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Redemptive Vision of Decolonization,” Global Intellectual History Workshop, New York Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, New York University, April 2010 “De-Provincializing African Thought,” Guest Lecture, Seminar on “Africa and the Disciplines,” African Studies, Yale University, March 2010 “African Socialism as Political Theology: Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Redemptive Vision of Decolonization,” Council on African Studies, Yale University, March 2010 Special discussion of Gary Wilder, “Untimely Vision: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia,” Atlantic Studies Working Group, Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University, October 2009 “From Historical Memory to the History of Time,” conference on Repetition With Change: The Intellectual Legacies of Dominick LaCapra, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, September 2009

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“Aimé Césaire et la situation actuelle,” Seminar, Faculté de droit et d'économie, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Schoelcher, Martinique, May 2009 “Questioning Decolonization,” conference on Colonialism and European Identities, The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, April 2009 “Decolonization and Postnational Democracy,” Doctoral Program in Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 2009 “Decolonization and Postnational Democracy,” History Department, University of Texas, Austin, February 2009 “Decolonization Without National Independence (or Federalism and Futurity): Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Utopian Vision of Postwar France,” Workshop, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas, Austin, October 2008 “Federalism as the Future Past of Black France: Revisiting Senghor's Postwar Vision,” conference on France Noire – Black France: The History, Poetics, and Politics of Blackness, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, France, June 2008 “Decolonization, Postnational Democracy, and the Problem of Freedom,” Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, May 2008 “Federalism, Cosmopolitanism, Utopia: Léopold Senghor’s Untimely Vision of Decolonization without National Independence,” The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 2008 “Federalism, Cosmopolitanism, Utopia: Léopold Senghor’s Untimely Vision of Decolonization without National Independence,” Institute of African Studies, School of International and Political Affairs, Columbia University, April 2008 “Negritude Redux: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia,” French and Francophone Studies Seminar, Humanities Center, Harvard University, March 2008 “Federalism, Cosmopolitanism, Utopia: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor and the Prospect of Decolonization Without National Independence,” Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, November 2007 “Emancipating Futures Past: Aimé Césaire, Strategic Utopia, and the Political Untimely,” Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, October 2007 Special Seminar on The French Imperial Nation-State, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, October 2007 “Thinking Through Race, Confronting Republican Racism,” Conference on Racing the Republic: Ethnicity and Inequality in France in American and World Perspective, Center on Institutions and Governance, University of California, Berkeley, September 2007 “Emancipating Futures Past: Aimé Césaire, Strategic Utopia, and the Political Untimely,” History Department, Northwestern University, May 2007 “Negritude Redux: Historical Constellations and Political Legacies,” Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Missouri, Columbia, April 2007 “Response to Eli Zaretsky’s ‘The Idea of a Left’,” Bradshaw Conference on the Politics of Culture, Cultural Studies Deapartment, Claremont Graduate University, February 2007 Special Seminar on The French Imperial Nation-State, History Department, University of California, Irvine, February 2007

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“Emancipating Futures Past: Toussaint Louverture or the Revolution that Will Have Been,” conference on Scarred Landscapes/Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins of Empire, New School for Social Research, Department of Anthropology, October 2006 “Critical Theory and the Poverty of Historiography,” conference on Rethinking Critical Theory in the 21st Century: Time, Labor, and Social Domination After 10 Years, University of Chicago, May 2004 “The Antinomies of Imperial Reason: Colonial Humanism in French West Africa,” History Department, California State University, Long Beach, May 2004 “Antinomies of the Imperial Nation-State: Colonial Humanism in French West Africa,” History Department, University of Michigan, March 2004 “The Antinomies of Imperial Reason,” History Department, University of Minnesota, March 2004 “Antinomies of the Nation-State: Beyond Universalism vs. Particularism,” Social Theory and Historical Studies Workshop, New York University, February 2002 “Colonial Humanism and African Citizenship,” Institute of French Studies, New York University, February 2002 “Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies Beyond National Identity,” Conference on Post- Colonial Studies:Regards Croisées France/États Unis, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, May 2001 “The French Imperial Nation-State,” Invited for discussion of book manuscipt by Editorial Board, Duke University Press Series on Politics, History, and Culture, Ann Arbor, April 2001 “Race, Reason, Impasse: Césaire, Fanon, and the Legacy of Emancipation,” Conference on The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Europe and the Americas, Sainte-Claude, Guadeloupe, March 9-11, 2001 “Colonial Humanism: A Doubled and Contradictory Political Rationality in French West Africa,” European History and Culture Colloquium, University of California, Los Angeles February 2001 “Pan-Africanism and the Republican Public Sphere,” Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, January 2001 “Civilizational Thinking and Interwar French West Africa,” for Conference on Civilizational Thinking, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 1999

Conference Presentations “New World History Now: From a Painful Sense of Time to a Prophetic Vision of the Past,” Small Axe Digital Humanities Conference, Trinidad, December 2018 Organizer and Presenter, "The Legacy of Thomas C. Holt's The Problem of Freedom: 25 Year Retrospect," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 2018 Discussant for panel on “Local Perspectives on Rights, Welfare, and Diversity in Migrant Housing Projects" Society for French Historical Studies Meetings, Cambridge MA, April 2013 “Foreclosure: On the Insidious Logic of Historiographic Turns,” Roundtable on Historiographic “Turns” in Critical Perspective, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2010

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“African Socialism as Political Theology: Senghor on the End/s of Sovereignty,”American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2009 “Eurafrique as the Future Past of Postcolonial France: Recognizing Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Postwar Vision,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2008 Discussant for panel on “Engaging France from India and North Africa,” Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, Québec City, November 2008 Discussant for panel on “Bearing Witness: Law, Violence and the Colonial State in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Houston, March 2007. “Temporality, Immanent Critique, and (Colonial) Emancipation,” Seminar on Experimental Critical Theory (“Present Tense: Empires, Race, Bio-Politics”), University of California Irvine, August 2005 Discussant for panel on “Identity and Segregation in the Colonial Context,” Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Stanford University, March 2005 Discussant for panel on “European Anthropological Discourse and Imperial Forms of Rule,” Council for European Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2002 “Colonial Citizenship and the Family Form in French West Africa,” Council for European Studies Annual Meeting, March 2002 “Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality in French West Africa,” Law and Society Association Meetings, Budapest, July 2001 “Not French History: Colonial Studies Beyond National Identity,” Western Society for French History, Los Angeles, November 2000 “Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality,” Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe AZ, March 2000 Panel Moderator, “In Migration: Comparing Europe and California,” conference on In Migration: Immigration, Racism, and Policy in Europe and California Conference, European Union Center of California and Scripps College Humanities Institute, March 2000 Discussant, “The Colonization of Identity: Negotiating the Terms of Difference in French Colonial Frameworks” at American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2000 “Pan-African Politics and the Republican Political Sphere,” Western Society for French History conference, Asilomar CA, November 1999 “Black Humanism: The Negritude Critique of French Colonial Racism,” Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, D.C., March 1999 “Colonial Eites/Colonial Citizenship,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 1998 “Interrogating the Cultural Politics of Colonial Humanism,” Conference on Politics and Culture in the Third Republic, University of Michigan, October 1997 “La Plus Grande France: Articulating the Imperial Nation-State,” Propaganda and Empire Conference, Francophone Area Studies Research Group, University of Portsmouth, Institut Francais, London, U.K. “Imagining La Plus Grande France between the Wars,” Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, March 1997

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“Imagining Greater France,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 1996 “Practicing Citizenship in Imperial Paris” conference on The Struggle for Civil Society in Postcolonial Africa, University of Chicago June 1996 “Notes on the Political Rationality of Colonial Humanism in Interwar France,” conference on Popular Front and Empire, University of Portsmouth, U.K., February, 1996 “Towards a Cultural History of French Colonialism Between the Wars,” conference on Post- Emancipation Societies, University of Michigan, April 1993 “From La Plus Grande France to Negro African Humanism: Reading Senghor in Context,” conference on Virtual Frontiers and African Studies, University of Chicago, November 1992 “Race, Ideology, and the Impossibility of Identity in The History of Jamaica,” Strategies of Critique conference York University, Toronto, April 1992

Professional Service Member, Editorial Board, Modern Intellectual History Member, Editorial Board, Critical Historical Studies Member, J. Russell Major Book Prize Committee, American Historical Association, 2018- present Member, Advisory Board, Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity, London School of Economics Co-Facilitator, Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Spring Workshop for Doctoral Fellows, New Orleans, LA, March 2014 Reviewer, Dissertation Completion Fellowships, American Council for Learned Societies 2011- 2013 Reviewer, International Dissertation Research Fellowships, Social Science Research Council, 2010-2013 Prize Committee, Western Society for French History, 2008-2010 Governing Council, Western Society for French History, 2006-2009 Article manuscripts reviewed for Cultural Anthropology, French Colonial History, French Historical Studies, Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of Modern History, Small Axe, Critical Historical Studies Book manuscripts reviewed for Fordham Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press Promotion Reviews for Scripps College, SUNY Binghamton, Florida International University, Colby College, University of California, Santa Cruz, Columbia University Presentation on "Teaching African Imperialism," to Claremont International Studies Education Project, Seminar for California High School Teachers on Africa, January 2001 Editorial Intern for Cornell University Press book series, Center for the Study of Politics, History, and Culture, University of Chicago, October 1992- June 1994

Non-Academic Work Experience Africa Program Assistant, Social Science Research Council, New York, July 1989 - July 1990 Agricultural Extension Agent, United States Peace Corps, Togo, W. Africa, June 1986 – October 1988 Intern, Southern African Training Program, African-American Institute, New York, Summer 1985

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Volunteer Counselor, Offender Aid and Restoration, Tompkins County Jail, Ithaca, NY, September 1983 - June 1985

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