FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques,
conferred by the French Government, 2006.
Remarque Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University,
spring semester 2006.
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Research Fellowship,
1993-94.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship,
1993-94.
Maurice Falk Fellowship in the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon
University, spring 1992.
Faculty Development Grant for Research, Carnegie Mellon University,
1987 and 1991.
American Council of Learned Societies, post-doctoral research
fellowship for recent recipients of the Ph.D., 1985-86.
National Fellow, Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and
Peace, Stanford University, 1985-86.
Research Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-86 (declined).
International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science
Research Council, for dissertation research and writing, 1979-81.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship, for dissertation research,
1979-80.
Honorary Chancellor's Traveling Fellowship, University of
California, Berkeley, for dissertation research, 1979.
Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship, 1977-1981.
Senior Thesis Prize, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University, 1971.
PAST EMPLOYMENT
Visiting Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard
University, fall 2003.
Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University,
1986-92.
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University, 1981-85.
Teaching Assistant, History, University of California at
Berkeley, 1978-79.
Assistant to the Dean, then Assistant Dean, then Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Public and Community
Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1972-75.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Making France Anew: Citizens and the State after the
Second World War, a book on the social and economic reconstruction
of France, with a special focus on industrial renewal, family
policy, immigration, and the regulation of the retail trade,
terrain where elites and key social groups struggled with
particular intensity over the role of the state in daily life.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the
Politics of Difference, co-edited with Laura L. Frader.
New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.
A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement
for the Twenty-First Century? co-edited with Mark Kesselman
and Martin Schain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990,
co-edited with George Reid Andrews. New York: New York University
Press. London: Macmillan Ltd. 1995.
European Society in Upheaval: Social History Since 1700,
Third Edition, co-authored with Peter N. Stearns. New York:
MacMillan, 1992.
State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the
French Aircraft Industry. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1991.
Articles
“Les petits commerçants et l’État
de la révolte poujadiste au début de la Ve République,”
in Les Petites et Moyennes Entreprises de 1880 à
nos jours. Pouvoirs, representation, action, edited by Sylvie
Guillaume and Michel Lescure (Peter Lang, forthcoming in 2007).
“France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and
Economic Settlement?” in Revisiting the Liberation,
ed. Andrew Knapp (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming in 2007).
“Choosing History, Discovering France,” in
Why France: American Historians Reflect on Their Enduring
Fascination, ed. Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).
“Pierre Poujade,” in the Dictionnaire
Charles de Gaulle. Paris: Robert Laffont, 2006.
“Réformateurs et contestataires de l’impôt
après la seconde guerre mondiale,” in L’impôt
en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles, edited by Maurice
Lévy-Leboyer, Michel Lescure et Alain Plessis. Paris:
Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière
de la France, 2006.
“L’exception française: mythe ou réalité?”
Interview in Sciences humaines 46 (September-November 2004).
“The Liberation of France as a Moment in State-Making,”
in Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth-Century France,
edited by Martin S. Alexander and Kenneth Mouré. New
York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
"Modernity and National Identity in Postwar France,"
French Historical Studies 22, 2 (Spring 1999).
"Higher Education and Family Care Issues: Introduction,"
The History Teacher 29, 4 (August 1996).
With Mark Kesselman and Martin Schain, "The Exceptional
Trajectory of the French Labor Movement," French
Politics and Society 14, 4 (Fall 1996). Co-editor with Kesselman
and Schain of this special issue of the journal on "A
Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for
the Twenty-First Century?"
"Working on France in American Universities,"
an introduction to a special forum in French
Historical Studies 19, 2 (Fall 1995); guest editor of the
forum.
With George Reid Andrews, "The Social Construction of
Democracy, 1870-1990," in The Social Construction
of Democracy, 1870-1990, edited by George Reid Andrews and
Herrick Chapman. New York: New York University Press. London:
Macmillan, Ltd. 1995.
"French Democracy and the Welfare State." In
The Social Construction of Democracy, edited by George Reid
Andrews and Herrick Chapman. New York: New York University
Press. London: Macmillan, Ltd. 1995.
Essays on "State and Society," "The Great
Depression of the 1930s," and "The World Wars"
for The Encyclopedia of Social History, edited by Peter
N. Stearns. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1993.
"Pittsburgh and Europe's Metallurgical Cities: A Comparison."
In City at the Point: Essays on the Social History
of Pittsburgh, edited by Samuel P. Hays. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.
"Revolutionary Commemoration as Contested Terrain
from the Popular Front to the Fourth Republic." French
Politics and Society 7, 4 (September 1989).
"Les Ouvriers, le communisme et l'Etat: les politiques
de reconstruction d'après-guerre dans l'industrie aéronautique
1944-1950." Le Mouvement social 145 (December 1988).
"The Ambiguous Legacy of the Popular Front."
French Politics and Society 15 (November 1986).
"The Political Life of the Rank and File: French
Aircraft Workers During the Popular Front, 1934-1938."
International Labor and Working-Class History 30 (Fall 1986).
"The French State in the Era of the Second World
War." Center for Studies of Social Change, New School
for Social Research, Working Paper Series, No. 63 (August
1985).
"The Economy and the State in Twentieth-Century
France." Proceedings of the Western Society for
French History (1983).
"French Nationalization," The New York
Times, November 12, 1981.
Book Reviews
The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism. By
Philippe Roger. Translated by Sharon Bowman. Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 2005. Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).
Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social
Reform in France, 1914-1947. By Paul V. Dutton. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002. International Labor and
Working-Class History 66 (Fall 2004).
The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. By Daniel
J. Sherman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Journal
of Modern History 75, 2 (June 2003).
Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and
Management in Post-War Europe and Japan. Edited by Jonathan
Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2000. Social History 28, 1 (January 2003).
France and the Après Guerre, 1918-1924: Illusions
and Disillusionment. By Benjamin F. Martin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1999. American Historical Review 107,
3 (June 2002).
Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and
British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939. By Laura Lee Downs.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. Journal of Social
History (Summer 1999).
Histoire de l'électricité en France Volume
2: L'Interconnexion et le marché 1919-1946. Edited
by Maurice Lévy-Leboyer and Henri Morsel. Paris: Fayard,
1994. American Historical Review 101, 5 (December 1996).
Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France,
1914-1918. By John F. Godfrey. New York: Berg, 1987. Labor
History 35, 2 (Summer 1994).
The Politics of French Business, 1936-1945. By Richard Vinen.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. American Historical
Review 98, 5 (December 1993).
The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954.
By Irwin M. Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
International Labor and Working-Class History 45 (Spring 1994).
Big Business and Industrial Conflict in Nineteenth-Century
France: A Social History of the Parisian Gas Company. By Lenard
R. Berlanstein. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1991. French Politics and Society 10, 4 (Fall 1992).
Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946-1970.
By Robert L. Frost. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Business History Review 66, 2 (Summer 1992).
The Politics of Survival: Artisans in Twentieth-Century France.
By Steven M. Zdatny. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Journal of Social History 26, 2 (Winter 1992).
The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century
France. By Jacques Rancière. Translated by John Drury.
With an Introduction by Donald Reid. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1989. Journal of Modern History 65, 3 (September
1993).
Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary
France. By Michael P. Hanagan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
Journal of Modern History 65, 3 (September 1993).
France Since the Popular Front: Government and People, 1936-1986.
By Maurice Larkin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Journal
of Social History 24, 2 (Winter 1990).
And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel
Industry. By John P. Hoerr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1988. Journal of Social History 23, 3 (Spring 1990).
Crisis in the French Labour Movement: A Grassroots Perspective.
By W. Rand Smith. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Labor
History 30, 4 (Fall 1989).
Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French
Cities in the Era of World War I. By Kathryn E. Amdur. Champaign:
University of Illinois Press, 1987. Journal of Economic History
(October 1988).
INVITED PAPERS, LECTURES, AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Conference organizer, “Refashioning Urban Spaces
in Paris and New York for the 21st Century,” sponsored
by the Institute of French Studies and the Maison Française
of NYU and the Urban Studies Program of Fordham University,
April 28-29, 2006.
“Les projets sociaux de l’après Second
Guerre mondiale: réussites et échecs,”
a paper presented at an international conference convened
for the centenary of the French Labor Ministry entitled “Élaborations
et mises en oeuvre des politiques du travail: le ministère
du Travail et la société française au
XXe siècle,” Paris, 18-19 May 2006.
Participant by invitation in small conference on “The
Future of Europe’s Past,” Kanderstag, Switzerland,
March 30-April 1, 2006.
“Les petits commerçants et l’État
de la révolte poujadiste au début de la Ve République,”
a paper for a conference on “Les PME dans les Sociétés
européennes de 1880 à nos jours: pouvoir, représentation,
action,” at the Université de Paris 1 –
Panthéon/Sorbonne, Paris, January 20-21, 2006.
Panel member on “Perspectives on the Riots in France,”
a colloquium at the Institute of French Studies, New
York University, November 30, 2005.
“France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social
and Economic Settlement?” a paper presented at
“Revisiting the Liberation: France 1944-47,” a
conference organized by the Centre for the Advanced Study
of French History, University of Reading, Reading, United
Kingdom, September 16-17, 2005.
Commentator on a paper by David Montgomery on “The
Workers Movement and Imperialism,” given at the
Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History, Tamiment Library,
New York University, April 13, 2005.
“Policy Intellectuals in Search of the State in
Post-Liberation France: The Case of Michel Debré,”
a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of
French Historical Studies, Stanford University, Stanford,
CA, March 17-19, 2005.
“Marketplace Politics: Shopkeepers, Tax Reformers,
and the Regulation of the Retail Trade,” a paper
presented on March 18, 2004 to the seminar on “Ruptures
et continuités en 1945” at the Centre d’Histoire
sociale du 20ème siècle (Université de
Paris I – Sorbonne) and on April14, 2004 to the joint
research workshop of the Institute of French Studies and the
Europeanist group of the History Department at New York University.
“Opening the Nicolas Wahl Papers,” a
talk and exhibition essays at Bobst Library, New York University,
November 6, 2003.
Discussant, “The Republican Model.” A panel at
“The New Cleavages in France,” a conference jointly
organized by the Program in European Politics and Society,
Princeton University, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
de Paris, Princeton, NJ, October 9-12, 2003.
Conference organizer, “A Political Earthquake in
France: The Elections of 2002,” Institute of French
Studies, NYU, November 15, 2002.
“Immigration and the Regulation of Labor after
the Liberation of France,” a paper for the visiting
lecture series, Department of History at the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York, October 17, 2002.
Discussant, “Transmitting National Identity: Broadcast
Media in Modern France.” A panel at the Annual Meeting
of the Society for French Historical Studies, Toronto, Ontario,
April 11-14, 2002.
“Labor Market Regulation, Immigration, and State-Making
after the Liberation of France,” A paper presented
at the Conference of Europeanists, Council of European Studies,
Chicago, Illinois, March 14-16, 2002.
“Réformateurs et contestataires de l’impôt
après la seconde guerre mondiale,” a paper
at a conference on “L’impôt en France aux
XIXe et XXe siècles,” organized by the Comité
pour l’histoire économique et financière
de la France and held at the Ministry of Finance in Paris
(Bercy), 2-4 May 2001.
“The Nicholas Wahl Papers at Bobst Library: Possibilities
for Research,” a lecture at the Institute of French
Studies, New York University, April 18, 2001.
Discussant, “Media and Cultural Politics in the Popular
Front.” A panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society
of French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
March 8-10, 2001.
“Building Postwar France: Technocrats, Pressure Groups,
and State Authority in the Reconstruction of France after
World War II.” A paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe,
Arizona, April 1, 2000.
Discussant for a session on European state building and nationalism,
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800, Minda de Gunzburg
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 30,
1998.
Discussant, "'I'll Take this Razor to Your Throat' and
Other Episodes in Early-Twentieth-Century Labor Reform."
A panel at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Society of French
Historical Studies, Ottawa, Canada, March 26-28, 1998.
Discussant, "Upheaval and Defeat in the Aftermath of
World War II: Operation Dixie and the German Democratic Republic."
A panel at the Tenth Southern Labor Studies Conference, College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 25-28,
1997.
"Welfare State Building after the Liberation of
France, 1945-1950." A lecture at the Center for
European Studies, Princeton University, April 23, 1997.
Conference organizer and discussant, "A Century of Organized
Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century?"
An interdisciplinary conference at New York University and
Columbia University, February 9-10, 1996.
"Shopkeepers, Market Regulation and the State: Reassessing
the Tax Revolts of the Fourth Republic." A paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for French
Historical Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23-25, 1995.
Conference organizer and discussant, "Working on France:
French Civilization in American Universities." An interdisciplinary
conference on recent trends in research on France, held at
the Institute of French Studies, New York University, April
29-30, 1994.
Discussant, "Mass Production and Flexibility at War."
A panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History
of Technology, Washington, D.C., October 14-17, 1993.
"State-Building and Social Policy in Twentieth-Century
France." A presentation to the Columbia University
Faculty Seminar on the History of the Twentieth Century, New
York, January 25, 1993.
"Recasting Work and Class Identities in Interwar
France." A presentation at the Fourteenth Annual
North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan,
October 16-17, 1992.
"French Democracy and the Welfare State."
A paper for a conference on "The Social Construction
of Democracy," Pittsburgh Center for Social History,
May 2-3, 1992.
Chair and discussant, "Twentieth-Century Colonialism
and the Culture of Social Engineering." A panel at the
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago,
Illinois, December 27-30, 1991.
"Aircraft Workers in Britain and France between
the World Wars." A presentation to the University
Research Seminar on Technology and Social Change, Carnegie
Mellon University, October 2, 1991.
"Change and Continuity in the Contemporary French
Economy," A presentation at the Institute of French
Studies, New York University, April 29, 1991.
"The French Economy: Current Conditions and Future
Prospects." A presentation to the Inter-University
Consortium for Social Research on France, New York University,
February 9, 1991.
"State-Society Relations in France from the Popular
Front to the Postwar Order, 1936-1954." A presentation
to the Pittsburgh Center for Social History, December 5, 1989.
"Community Politics in American and German Industrial
Regions." A presentation at a conference on "Steel
and Coal Communities in Comparative Perspective, 1890-1990:
The United States and Germany," Pittsburgh Center for
Social History, April 20-22, 1990.
"Revolutionary Commemoration as Contested Terrain
from the Popular Front to the Fourth Republic."
A paper presented at the International Congress on the History
of the French Revolution, Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C., May 3-6, 1989.
Chair and discussant, "International Perspectives on
Ideological Divisions within the Labor Movement." A panel
at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association,
Chicago, November 3-6, 1988.
Discussant, "The Bicentennial of the French Revolution."
A panel comparing the enduring consequences of the French
and American Revolutions, at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September
2-4, 1988.
"Skilled Workers and the Politics of Technological
Change in Interwar France." A presentation at Wellesley
College, April 26, 1988.
"Working-Class Radicalism and State Capitalism in
Twentieth-Century France." A presentation at the
Institute of French Studies, New York University, November
24, 1987, and to the Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, April 25, 1988.
Chair and discussant, "Constructing Society: Planning
and Social Intervention in Interwar Europe." A panel
at the Sixth International Conference of Europeanists, Washington,
D.C., October 30-November 1, 1987.
"The Privatization of French Industry,"
a presentation to the Inter-University Consortium for Social
Research on France, New York University, February 7, 1987.
"The Politics of the Labor Process: French Aircraft
Workers and Rationalization on the Eve of the Second World
War." A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
October 24-26, 1986.
"Workers, Militants and Politics: The French Aircraft
Industry During the Popular Front, 1934-1938." A
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French
Historical Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 6-7,
1984.
"Economic Renovation and Social Reform: The Politics
of Nationalization in the French Aircraft Industry, 1936-1950."
A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social
Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October 27-30,
1983.
"Labor Militance and the State in Twentieth-Century
France: The Case of the French Aircraft Industry, 1930-1950."
A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 27-30,
1982.
Discussant, "Representation and the State: Problems
of Governability and Legitimacy in Western European Democracies."
An international conference at Stanford University, October
11-15, 1982.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editor, French Politics, Culture &
Society, 1999 to the present.
Research Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center
for European Studies, Harvard University, 1997 to the present.
First Book Prize Committee, Council for
European Studies, 2005-2006.
Comité scientifique of the Dictionnaire Charles
de Gaulle, to be published by Editions Robert Laffont
in 2006.
Program Committee for the 50th Anniversary Congress
of the Society for French Historical Studies, June
17-20, 2004, Paris. Also chaired panel on “Les historiens
français et l’événement du 21 avril
2002: que peut la recherché?”
French doctoral thesis jury [soutenance
de thèse], Université de Paris X – Nanterre,
December 18, 2003, of Frédéric Tristram, “La
direction générale des Impôts et la politique
fiscale en France de 1948 à la fin des années
1960.”
Teachers as Scholars program, School of
Education, Harvard University. Teaching seminar for secondary
school teachers on “Reckoning with the Second World
War: Reconstruction and Remembrance in Germany and France,”
spring 1999 and fall 2000.
Higby Prize committee member, Journal
of Modern History, 1998.
Editorial Board of French Historical Studies,
1995-1998.
Principal Historical Adviser for the ABC documentary
series, "The Twentieth Century," 1993-98,
and for The Century, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (New
York: Doubleday, 1998).
Inter-University Consortium for Social Research on
France, Institute of French Studies, New York University,
1986-1992.
Research Group on Wars, War Settlements and State
Structures, Social Science Research Council, 1985-87.
Western European Screening Committee, International
Research Fellowship Program, Social Science Research
Council, 1982-85.
Referee on articles, book manuscripts and grant applications
for The American Historical Review; The Journal of
Modern History; The Journal of Social History; French Historical
Studies; Contemporary European History; Comparative Studies
of Society and History; The American Journal of Sociology,
Science, Technology, and Human Values; university presses;
the National Endowment of the Humanities; and the National
Science Foundation.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (NYU)
Institute of French Studies: Acting Director
(2006-07, spring 2005, 1996-98; spring 1995; fall 1993); Director
of Graduate Studies (1992-96, 1999 to the present).
Department of History: graduate admissions and financial
aid committee (2002), search committee chair (2000), graduate
financial aid committee (2000), tenure committee chair (1999),
tenure committee (1998), planning committee (1997, 1999),
placement officer (1995).
University Committees: student disciplinary committee
(2006 to present); dean’s task force on graduate student
financial aid (1998).
Board Member, Remarque Institute
(1996 to the present).
Board Member, Center for European Studies
(1996 to 2000).
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