CAROLYN J. EICHNER Women’s & Gender Studies and History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee [email protected] Education Ph.D. Modern European History University of California, Los Angeles, August 1996. M.A. Modern European History Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, December 1988. B.S. Finance Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, May 1985. Academic Positions Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison Fellow, 2020-2021. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Chair, Women’s & Gender Studies, 2016 - 2018. Associate Professor, Departments of History and Women’s & Gender Studies, 2008-present. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Member, School of Historical Studies, 2015-2016. University of South Florida Associate Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, 2003 - 2008. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Stanford University, 2002. “Motherhood and the Nation State: Modern Times” University of South Florida Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, 1997 - 2003. UCLA Lecturer, Department of History, 1996-1997. PUBLICATIONS Books Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune. Indiana University Press, 2004. French translation, Franchir les barricades: les femmes et la Commune de Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020. A Brief History of the Paris Commune (forthcoming Rutgers University Press). Feminisms’ Empire (under review at Cornell University Press). The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship (in progress). Articles and Essays Invited essay: “Communardes en Algèrie: Feminist Anti-Colonial Agitations,” Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle. Edited by Caroline Fayolle & Isabelle Matamoros. Special Issue: Féminismes en révolution(s): Europe/Amériques, années 1820-fin de siècle. (forthcoming 2022). Invited essay: “Les femmes révolutionnaires,” Collections de L’Histoire. Special Issue: “Les Communards. 72 jours qui ont changé le monde.” (forthcoming: January 2021) “La colonie pénale genrée: prisonnières politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie,” Les circulations européennes à l’âge des empires coloniaux au XIXe siècle. Une identité genrée?. Edited by Virginie Chaillou-Atrous and Françoise Le Jeune. (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2020), 83-92. “Language of Imperialism, Language of Liberation: Louise Michel & the Kanak-French Colonial Encounter,” Feminist Studies vol. 45, n. 2 (2019), 377-408. Special Issue: Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts. “Exil et empire colonial : Louise Michel et l'expérience de la déportation,” La Commune de 1871 : une relecture. Edited by Marc César and Laure Godineau. (Grâne, France: Editions Créaphis, 2019), 359-368. “Civilization vs. Solidarity: Louise Michel and the Kanak,” Salvage Quarterly 4 (February 2017), 84-97. “In the Name of the Mother: Feminist Opposition to the Patronym in Nineteenth-Century France,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 39, n. 3 (Spring 2014), 659-683. “Paris Commune.” In Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Edited by Michael Gibbons. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2014. “La Citoyenne in the World: Hubertine Auclert and Feminist Imperialism,” French Historical Studies vol. 32, n. 1 (Winter 2009): 63-84. - reprinted (2017) in Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820. Alexander Street Press. https://alexanderstreet.com/products/women-and-social-movements-modern- empires-1820 “Paris Commune.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Edited by Peter Stearns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. “Louise Michel” and “Paris Commune.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Edited by Bonnie Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. “‘Vive la Commune!: Feminism, Socialism, and Revolutionary Revival in the Aftermath of the 1871 Paris Commune.” Journal of Women’s History. 15, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 68-98. 2 “‘We Must Shoot the Priests’: Revolutionary Women and Anti-Clericalism in the Paris Commune of 1871.” In Cities Under Siege/ Situazioni d’Assedio/ Etats de siège. Edited by Lucia Carle and Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux. Florence, Italy: Pagnini e Martinelli, 2002, 265-272. “‘To Assure the Reign of Work and Justice’: The Union des femmes and the Paris Commune of 1871.” Osterreichische Zeitschrift Fur Geschichtswissenschaften. Vienna, Austria, 9, no. 4 (1998): 525-555. Book Reviews Review of Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885, by Julia Nicholls. American Historical Review (forthcoming). Review of Françoise Thébaud, Une traversée du siècle, by Marguerite Thibert. Journal of Modern History v. 91, n. 4 (2019), 944-946. Review of Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune, by John Merriman. H-France Review, v. 16, n. 44 (April 2016). Review of Femmes de progress : Françaises et Allemandes engagées dans leur siècle 1848-1870, by Alice Primi, L’homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft v. 25, n. 2 (2014), 143-145. Review of A Political Romance: Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the Making of the Republic, 1872- 1882, by Susan K. Foley and Charles Sowerwine, Contemporary French Civilization v. 38 n. 2 (June 2013), 234-235. Review of Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris, by Jennifer A. Boittin, French Politics, Culture, and Society v. 30 n. 3 (Winter 2012): 143-147. Review of The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France, by Helen Chenut. European History Quarterly vol. 39, no.1 (January 2009): 130-131. Review of Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France, by Elinor Accampo. American Historical Review 112, no. 5 (December 2007): 1623- 1624. Invited Presentations Workshop on “The Paris Commune, Radical Democracy, and the Political Imagination,” Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 2021. “Penser la Commune,” University of Paris 8, April 2021. “Les femmes et genre dans la Commune de Paris,” Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de La Sorbonne, Paris, March 2021. 3 “Historiographies de l’empire colonial français : perspectives croisées France - États-Unis (Séance conjointe SHCF et SFHOM),” French Colonial Historical Society, Montréal, Canada, June 2019. “Racializing the Figure of ‘The Jew’: 19th-Century French Feminists and Empire”, Reemerging Racism: Genealogy, Mediations, & Contestations Workshop, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, June 2019. “Kanak Uprising: Racial Allegiance and Radical Politics in Colonial New Caledonia,” Oceana Ensemble, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, April 2018. “Oral Stories, Imperial Stories: Louise Michel & the Kanak-French Encounter,” Pacific Island Studies and the Indigenous Politics Network, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, April 2018. “Conflict and Contention in Offen’s Debating the Woman Question,” Meet the Author: Karen Offen, The Woman Question in France, 1400 - 1870 and Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press), European Social Science History Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 2018. “Translating Culture and Time: Legends, Politics, and the French-Kanak Colonial Encounter,” Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France & the Francophone World, University of Chicago, April 2017. "To Speak, To Teach, To Revolt: Louise Michel and New Caledonia." Simon Fraser University, April 2017. “Universalism, Anarchism, & Empire: Louise Michel and New Caledonia,” Beyond France Seminar, Columbia University, March 2017. “Language of Imperialism, Language of Liberation: Telling Stories in the Kanak-French Colonial Encounter,” Institute of French Studies, New York University, March 2016. "'No more paternity...no more property:' Legitimacy, Law, & the Matronym in 19th Century France," Smith College, October 2014. 1st Annual Sally G. McMillen Lecture in Gender & Sexuality Studies, "The Power and Politics of Names: Feminist Opposition to the Patronym in 19th-Century France," Davidson College, April 2014. “Unity Through Anarchy: Challenging Hierarchy from a French South Pacific Penal Colony,” Center for International Education Conference: “After Capitalism,” Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 2014. “Paule Mink: Turning State Power Against Itself,” Invited Speaker, Militant Feminisms in Art and Politics: Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Warwick, England, March 2014. "Toward a New Age of Humanity: Louise Michel's Anarchist Anti-Imperialism in France, New Caledonia, & Algeria, 1873-1904," Clark University, March 2014. “Multiplying European Feminisms: In Honor of Karen Offen,” Invited participant on panel honoring the work of historian Karen Offen, Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles, March 2012. 4 "'Caves filled with gold': French Feminist Perspectives on Race, Empire, & the 'Jewish Question,' 1860- 1914," Iowa European Studies Group, University of Iowa, February 2012. "'These Savages Were the True Patriots': 19th-Century Feminist Perspectives on 'Civilization' in France and its Colonies," Women’s Studies Colloquium, University of Hawai’I, Manoa, January 2012. “Gender and Empire: Feminist Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in fin-de-siècle France,” International Feminisms in Comparative Historical Perspective, 19th-20th Centuries, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, February 2008. “‘In the Interest of Civilization’: Feminisms for the Empire, Feminisms for France,” Society for the Study of French History Twentieth Annual Conference, University of Sussex, England, July 2006. “‘Neither the Brutality of