Gary Wilder Curriculum Vitae Ph.D. Program in Anthropology 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, University of Chicago, 1999 M.A. Anthropology Department, University of Chicago, 1992 B.A. Cornell University, School of Arts and Sciences, “Distinction in All Subjects,” 1986 Semester in Paris, Reid Hall (Columbia University/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 Marxism and Modernity Black Atlantic Political Imagination Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, Justice Europe Since 1789 Decolonization Globalization and Neoliberalism 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 2 A Fernando Coronil 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. Ann Laura Stoler et. al. (under contract Fordham University Press) 3 “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: