PATRICK R. YOUNG Associate Professor Department of History College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences University of Massachusetts-Lowell
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Education
2000 Ph.D. (History) Columbia University, New York NY; Advisors: Robert Paxton and Victoria de Grazia
1992 M.Phil. (History) Columbia University, New York, NY
1990 M.A. (History) Columbia University, New York, NY
1987 B.A. (Comparative Literature) Hamilton College, Clinton, NY summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1985-6 Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK First and Second Class Merits
Academic Experience
2006-pres. University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Assistant/Associate Professor of History
2005-2006 University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
2003-5 Amherst College, Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of History
2001-3 Boston University, Instructor of Humanities, Core Curriculum
2000-1 City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Visiting 1998-1999 Assistant Professor of History and Lecturer
2000 Fordham University, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
1999 Drew University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
1997-9 Long Island University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History
1994-7 The Dalton School, History Teacher YOUNG, PATRICK curriculum vita Page 2 of 13
1994-5 Mannes College, The New School of Social Research, Lecturer in History
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Conference Participation
2018 Presenter, “Transhumance and the Fate of the ‘Berber Mountain’ in Colonial Morocco,” paper to be given at panel entitled “Crossing Boundaries: Space, Place, and Indigeneity in the French Empire,” French Colonial History Society Conference, Seattle WA, May 31- June 2.
2017 Presenter, “The Ethno-Environmental Ordering of Empire: Jean Célérier and the Institut des Hautes Études Marocaines,” paper given at panel entitled “Decolonizing Knowledge and its Agents, 1920s-1970s,” French Colonial History Society Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France June 15-17.
2017 Organizer and Presenter, “Mobilities, Limitations and Adaptations of the Mediterranean Mountains” panel, American Society for Environmental History Conference, Chicago IL. March 29-April 2. Delivered Paper entitled, “Mobility, Environment and Indigeneity in the Middle Atlas.”
2014 Presenter, “Rethinking Cultural Festivity in Brittany and Beyond,” paper given at panel entitled, “French Perceptions of Celtic Others”, Society for French Studies Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland June 30-July 2.
2013 Roundtable Organizer and Participant, “Rethinking Place and Locality in French History”, French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge MA April 4-7
2013 Panel Commenter, "Ecology and Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century France," French Historical Studies Conference, Cambridge MA April 4-7.
2011 Panel Commenter, “Making it Work: Global Challenges to French Farming in the Long 20th Century”, Western Society for French History Conference, Portland OR., November 10-12.
2011 Presenter, “Dilemmas of Exchange at the Land’s End”, paper given at panel entitled “Tourists, Hiking and Parks in France and its Colonies”, Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Portland OR., November 10-12.
2010 Invited presenter (cancelled): “Définir et utiliser une tradition de costume Breton dans les temps modernes” paper to be given at international conference, “Penser le développement du tourisme au XXe siècle: territoire, économie, patrimoine”, in St. Brieuc, France, June 2-4.
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2008 Presenter: “A Tasteful Patrimony: Landscape Preservation and Class in Brittany”, paper given at panel entitled “The Nature(s) of Tourism” at the French Historical Studies Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ April 4-6.
2007 Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Where City and Country Meet: Tourist Exchanges in History and Anthropology”, Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, IL., November 18-21.
2006 Presenter: “Opening up Her Secrets: Gender and Authenticity in Tourist Brittany”, paper given at panel entitled “Rural Life and Authenticity in Metropolitan and Overseas France” at the Western Society for French History Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 19-21.
2006 Presenter: “A Sustainable Past? Tourism, Preservation and Loss in Brittany”, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Faculty Salon, October 4.
2005 Presenter: “Of Pardons, Loss and Longing: Tourism and Cultural Value in the Finistère”, Five College History Seminar, Amherst College, March 10.
2004 Presenter: “A Place Beyond Politics? Tourism in Brittany, 1900-1930”, paper given at panel entitled “The Politics and Poetics of Terroir”, French Historical Studies Conference, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, June 17-21.
2000 Presenter: “The Historical Picturesque: Tourism’s Production of the Past in French North Africa, 1900-1930”, paper given at panel entitled “At Home Abroad in ‘Greater France’”, Western Society for French History Conference, UCLA, November 8-11.
2000 Panel Chair and Commenter: “Mapping the Nation”, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, Yale University, New Haven CT., April 6-8.
2000 Presenter: “North African Tourism in the Fin-de-Siècle”, paper given at panel entitled “Frenchness outside the Hexagon”, Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, March 30-April 2. 2000 Presenter: “Representing Genocide: Prospects and Perils in the European, American and Rwandan Cases”, Conference on “Rwanda and the Politics of History”, sponsored by the Sawyer Seminar, Columbia University. 1999 Presenter: "Assembling a Consumable France: Tourism, Preservation and National Identity, 1890-1914", French Historical Studies Conference, Washington DC, March 19-20.
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1998 Presenter: "The Body Rested, A Class Revived: Tourism, Consumer Culture and Bourgeois Embodiment, 1890-1914", Western Society for French History Conference, Boston MA, November 4-7.
Professional Service
2014-pres. North American Editor, Modern and Contemporary France journal
2016 Article Peer Reviewer, Radical History Review
2014 Article Peer Reviewer, French Politics, Culture and Society journal
2011 Article Peer Reviewer, Environment and History Journal
2008-9 Book Reviews Editor, H-Net/H-Travel • Solicited and edited reviews from international scholars in multiple disciplines on books in the field of Tourist Studies. • Built and maintained database of reviewers. • Continuously researched current literature of the field. • Interfaced extensively with prospective and commissioned reviewers, publishers, H-Net editors.
2007-8 Culture Network member, Social Science History Association
2001-5 Consultant, Educational Testing Service • Read, evaluated and scored AP World History examinations. • Participated in discussion and formulation of examinations and curricular materials.
2003 Curricular Consultant, Boston University • Generated curricular materials and teaching plans for the University’s Core Curriculum, in collaboration with Core teaching colleagues and administrators.
Academic Awards and Honors
2013-4 College Merit Award, Dean’s Merit Award, University of Massachusetts- Lowell
2012-13 Dean’s Merit Award, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
2007 Scholarly Research Forum Summer Research Grant, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
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2003-5 Mellon Foundation Faculty Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
2000 American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant
1999-2000 Mellon Seminar Doctoral Fellowship, Columbia University
1999 Society for French Historical Studies Travel Award
1993-4 Government of France Bourse Chateaubriand Research Fellowship
1993-4 Council for European Studies Fellowship, Columbia University (declined)
1990-2 President's Fellowship, Columbia University
1987 Phi Beta Kappa, Hamilton College
1987 Senior Comparative Literature Prize, Hamilton College
1984-5 Curran Prize Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Hamilton College
1983-7 Phi Sigma Iota Language Honor Society, Hamilton College
1983-4 Vrooman Prize Scholarship for Excellence in the Study of Classical Languages, Hamilton College
1983-7 Dean’s List every semester, Hamilton College
Professional Association Memberships
American Environmental History Society American Historical Association Society for French Historical Studies Western Society for French History Social Science History Association Society for Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Colloquium for French Studies Urban History Association World History Association Lowell Historical Society
Professional Development
2016 Training in Academic Works, November 30
2015-pres. Member, Boston Area French Historians’ Group
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2015 FAHSS Research Funding Workshop, August 31
2014 Presenter, UML “River Talks” Faculty Research Event, February 7
2007-9 Scholarly Research Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences, UML Office of Research Administration.
2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, Harvard University: “War and Memory: Postwar Representations of the Occupation in French Literature, History and Film.” Interdisciplinary seminar led by Susan R. Suleiman, Professor of Romance Languages, Harvard University, June 26-August 4.
1999-2000 Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Columbia University: “The Production of the Past, History in the Making.” Post-Doctoral Fellow of year-long seminar for invited international scholars and graduate students from various disciplines to explore the politics of producing the past in specific world-historical contexts. Directed by Nicholas Dirks and Partha Chaterjee, Departments of History and Anthropology, Columbia University.
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Work in Progress
“Mobility, Limitation and Empire in the Atlas Mountains, 1900-1956”, book project currently in research and initial writing stages
“Interfaces of Tourism and Colonialism in North Africa,” extended review/essay solicited by Journal of Tourism History, to be submitted January-February 2018
“Visualizing Tourism,” chapter of Oxford Handbook of Tourism History, ed. by Eric Zuelow and Kevin James, to be submitted Fall 2018
“Postcolonial Europe,” future book proposal for course text to be submitted to Bloomsbury Academic, at request of Acquisitions Editor Rhodri Mogford.
Published Books
2014 Place and Locality in Modern France, co-edited collection with Philip Whalen (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
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2012 Enacting Brittany: Tourism and Culture in Provincial France, (London: Ashgate, 2012).
Refereed Journal Articles
2009 “A Tasteful Patrimony: Landscape Preservation and Tourism in the ‘Sites and Monuments’ Campaign, 1900-1935,” French Historical Studies 32:3 (Summer 2009), pp. 447-477, special issue on “New Directions in French Environmental History”.
2009 “Fashioning Heritage: Regional Costume and Tourism in Brittany, 1890- 1937”, Journal of Social History, 42:3 (Spring 2009), pp. 631-656.
2008 “From the Eiffel Tower to the Javanese Dancer: Envisioning Cultural Globalization at the 1889 Paris Exhibition”, The History Teacher 41:3 (May 2008), pp. 339-362.
2007 “Of Pardons, Loss and Longing: Tourism and Cultural Value in Brittany, 1900-1930 ”, French Historical Studies 30:2 (Spring 2007), pp. 269-304.
Book Chapters
2011 “A Place Like any Other? The Touring Club de France and the Search for a French Path to Tourism”, in Eric Zuelow, ed., Touring Beyond the Nation: The Development of Modern Tourism in Pan- European and Trans-National Context (London: Ashgate, 2011).
2002 "La Vieille France as Object of Bourgeois Desire: Tourist Consumption of the French Regions, 1890-1918", in Rudy Koshar, ed., Histories of Leisure, (London: Berg 2002).
Book and Film Reviews
2017 Review of Michael Nelson, The French Riviera, A History (Matador, 2017), for French History, 31:3, September 2017.
2017 Review of Jobst Welge, Geneological Fictions: Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), Studies in Twenty and Twenty-First Century Literature, 41:1, 2017.
2017 Review of Rachel Chrastil, The Siege of Strasbourg (Harvard University Press, 2014), French Politics, Culture and Society 35:1 (Spring 2017), pp. 146- 149.
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2014 Review of Nicolas Marty, L’invention de l’eau embouteillée: Qualités, norms et marches de l’eau en bouteille en Europe, XIX-XX siècles (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2013), H-France, Vol. 14 (October 2014), no. 161.
2013 Review of Leslie Page Moch, The Pariahs of Yesterday: Breton Migrants in Paris (Duke University Press, 2012), Social History Journal 38:2 (2013).
2012 Review of Le Tourisme Suisse et son Rayonnement International, ed. by Cédric Humair and Laurent Tissot (Antipodes, 2011), Journal of Tourism History, 4:2 (2012), pp. 230-232.
2012 Review of Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity and Survival in Breton Village by Charles R. Menzies (University of Toronto, 2011), H-France, Vol. 12 (February 2012), No. 24.
2011 Pedagogical review of the film Breathless (À Bout de Souffle) by Jean-Luc Godard, Film and Fiction for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin, Vol. 7 (November 2011).
2007 Review of Tourism and Nationalism: The Jewel of the German Past, by Joshua Hagen (Ashgate, 2006), H-Net/H-Travel (May 2007).
2001 Review of the film “Terrorists in Retirement” (“Des terroristes à la retraite”), H- France (March 28, 2001).
1992 Review of The Holocaust and Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman, in Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, no. 59, Spring 1992, pp. 53-58.
1991 "Labor History at the American Historical Association Conference", International Labor and Working Class History Review, no. 40 (Fall 1991).
Other Published Work
2011 “The Grand Tour”, “Seaside Resorts” and “Kleptomania” entries in World History Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Alfred Andrea, ed., Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1914, pp. 393, 398-9, 743.
INSTRUCTION-RELATED ACTIVITY
Courses Taught
Postcolonial Europe • new graduate course added to History Department
Immigration and Assimilation in Contemporary Europe
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• new course added to History Department
War, and Memory in Twentieth Century France • new course added to History Department • cross-listed in Peace and Conflict Studies
The World of Things: Consumer Cultures in the Modern West • new course added to History Department • cross-listed in Global Studies, Gender Studies • undergraduate and graduate versions of the course
Fascism and the Radical Right in Twentieth Century Europe • new course added to History Department
French Revolution and Napoleon
Europe in the Twentieth Century
World Civilizations II
Undergraduate Theses, Independent Studies and Mentoring
2017-8 Honors Thesis advisor to Marcus Kuhs, “Theories and Practices of Regenerative Violence, Italy 1871-1922”
2017-8 Honors Thesis advisor to Chloe-Marie Cabaret Salameh, “French- Lebanese Identities in Transit”
2016-7 Honors College Student Fellowship Mentor, Sean McDonough, “French Environmental and Colonial History,” fall-spring 2016-7.
2015 Directed Independent Study, Gina Cesati, “The Rape of Berlin: Violence, Memory and Testimony,” fall 2015
2014 Organizer and Discussant, “Consuming Women in History” panel, UML Gender Studies Symposium, February 20
2011-2 Honors Thesis advisor to Jonathan Zlotnik, “Actors at the End of a Bad Play: The Struggle for Polish Independence, 1796-1945”, approved May 2012.
2011 Honors by Contract sections in French Revolution and Modern World courses.
2009 Directed Independent Study, Christopher Tripp, “Issues in Contemporary French History, 1945-Present”.
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2008 Student Paper Mentor, Phi Alpha Theta New England North Regional Conference, April 12.
2007 Organizer and Chair, “Gender and Revolution” panel, UML Gender Studies Symposium, April 23.
2007 Panel Commentator, Phi Alpha Theta New England North Regional Conference, April 14.
2005 Honors Thesis advisor to Carson, Katherine A. “French Reaction to Use of Torture in French-Algerian War (1954-1962)”, Amherst College, approved May 2005.
2005 Directed Independent Research Study and Thesis, Eric Gettig, “Soccer, Nationalism and Memory in Twentieth Century Spain”, Spring 2005.
2004 Honors Thesis advisor to Andrew Spadafora, “History and the Human Sciences: Ernst Cassirer and the Transformation of Neo-Kantian Methodological Thought”, Amherst College, approved May 2004.
2004 Honors Thesis reader for Marci Brenholz, “Reception and Misrepresentation: The French New Wave and the American Art House Cinema”, Amherst College, approved May 2004.
Teaching Awards
2009 UML Student Government Association “Exceeding Excellence” Teaching Award
2008-9 Department of History Teaching Award
Other Instruction-Related Activity
2015-6 PIF Collaborative Project participant, Critical Thinking
2006 Interdisciplinary Collaboration Workshop: Global Studies, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, November 9
2006 Faculty Training Workshop, “WebCT and Web-Enhanced Teaching”, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
2006 Faculty Institute: “Interdisciplinary Assignments”, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
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2006 Faculty Institute: “Interdisciplinary Teaching”, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Service to University and College
2016-7 Transfer Coordinator for History Department
2014-pres. Executive Council member, Kerouac Center for Public Humanities
2013-5 UML Faculty Senator
2013 Invited Presentation and Discussion, “Writing Without Struggle”, delivered at Eames Hall to students in UML Honors Program, April 22
2013 Invited Lecture, “Heroic Intersections: Beethoven and Bonaparte”, delivered to UML Honors Students enrolled in Honors Program “Difference Makers” courses, February 22
2011-pres. Member, UML Honors Council; UML Honors Council Curriculum Committee
2009 Participating Teacher, Learning Communities Initiative
2008 Member, Gender Studies Steering Committee
2008 Guest Lecture on Consumer Culture and Environmental Sustainability to Vanessa Gray’s “Environmental Studies” course, April 23
2007 Volunteer Evaluator, Task Force on Undergraduate Research Symposia
2006-pres. Member, Academic Resource Committee of the Faculty Senate
2006 “Riots in France: Historical and Political Dimensions”, public lecture and discussion with Aart Holtslag, Political Science Department, November 17, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Service to History Department
2017-8 Chair, History Department Recruitment and Retention Committee
2016-7 Acting Chair, History Department Scholarship and Awards Committee
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2015 Departmental representative at Freshman Orientation, July 21
2014-6 History Department Personnel Committee Chair
2014-pres. Member, History Department Committee for Awards and Scholarships
2012 Search Committee member, Continuing Education/History Instructor Search
2011-pres. Departmental Representative to UML Honors Council
2011-4 Head, Committee for Blewett Award for Student Research Paper
2011 Presentation on Scholarly Research to Professor Jonathan Liebowitz’ “Historical Methods” course, March 1
2011 Organizer of Departmental Materials for UML Homecoming-Open House
2009 History Department Representative at UML Welcome Day for Admitted Students, April 4
2009 History Department Representative to the Library
2007- pres. History Department Curriculum Committee
2007 Presentation on Research and Research Methods to Professor Chad Montrie’s “Historical Methods” course, October 25
2007 History Department Representative at UML Homecoming-Open House
2006-7 Revision of Department Teaching Evaluation Form, in collaboration with Chris Carlsmith
2006 Member, UML Academic Hardware/Software Committee
2006-pres. Academic Advising (12-18 students per semester)
Service to Community and Region
2008 Participating Teacher, Lowell High School Partnership for Success, December 8
2008 Invited Panelist at Partnership for College Success Panel, Lowell High School, February 27
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2008 Interview with the Lowell Sun for article on the economic crisis and its impact upon consumer behavior, December 15
2008 Radio Interview on Food Politics and French/American Cultural Relations, “Sunrise” WUML, February 20
2007 Participating Teacher, Lowell High School College Week, October 18
2007 Radio Interview on French and American Immigration Politics, Strikes in France, “Sunrise” WUML, December 8
2007 Radio Interview on French Elections, “Sunrise” WUML, Lowell, Massachusetts, May 7
2007 Radio Interview on European-American perceptions and tensions, “Sunrise” WUML, Lowell, Massachusetts, January 31
2006-9 Volunteer at the Lowell Wish Project, an organization which collects and distributes clothing, furniture and household supplies to needy Lowell and area residents. Work in warehouse, client interfacing and grant research and writing
2006 Radio Interview on Tourism and Sustainability in France, WUML, Lowell, Massachusetts, October 4
2006 Radio interview on riots in France, “Sunrise” WUML, Lowell, Massachusetts, November 12
2005-6 Faculty Co-Advisor, UML-STAN, human rights organization focusing on the genocide in Darfur