EDUCATION

New York University. Institute of French Studies. New York, NY.

Ph.D., May 2001. Dissertation: Xenophobia and Exclusion in the Professions in Interwar France. "With Honors"

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France.

Doctorat, May 2001. "Mention très honorable avec félicitations"

Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Washington, DC.

Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, May 1989.

Major: International Politics. "Cum laude".

FIELDS

Interdisciplinary French Studies. Contemporary French Society and Culture.

BOOK IN PROGRESS

Professional Prejudice: Xenophobia in Medicine and Law in Interwar France

PUBLICATIONS

Published Work

"Pride and Prejudice in the Professions: Women Doctors and Lawyers in Third Republic France." In Journal of Women's History 19;3 (September 2007), 60-86. Refereed.

"Xenophobia in the Professions: From the Third Republic to the Fifth." In Contemporary French Civilization 21;2 (Summer-Fall 2007): 9-38. Solicited.

"The Apology Moment: Vichy Memories in 1990s France." In Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation, 259-285. Edited by Elazar Barkan and Alexander Karn. Stanford University Press (2006). Solicited.

"Avocats et médecins xénophobes (1919-1939)." In Les exclus en Europe, 345-357. Edited by André Gueslin and Dominique Kalifa. Paris: Editions de l'Atelier, 1999. Solicited.

Unpublished Work

"Apology and the Past in Contemporary France." French Politics, Culture & Society 26; 1 (Spring 2008) (In press). Refereed.

Book Review of Susan Rubin Suleiman, Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Harvard University Press, 2006. For French Politics, Culture & Society (In press). Solicited.

"Apologizing for Vichy in Contemporary France." In Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past, edited by Manfred Berg, Christian Ostermann, and Bernd Schäfer. Cambridge University Press (In press). Solicited.

Assistant Professor. Department of French Studies.

Rice University. Houston, TX. 2005 - present.

• America Through French Eyes
• France-America: Image and Exchange
• Humanities 102
• Immigration and Citizenship in Contemporary France
• Independent Studies on Discrimination and Multiculturalism in France
• Introduction to French Society and Culture
• National Identity and Public Memory in France
• Problems in Contemporary French Society

Assistant Professor. Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics.

University of Maryland Baltimore County. Baltimore, MD. 2001 - 2004.

• Aspects of Modern French Civilization
• France in the New Europe
• French Language: Beginning II, Intermediate II, Advanced II
• French Translation
• Introduction to the Humanities
• National Identity and Public Memory in France

Visiting Assistant Professor. French Department. Mount Holyoke College.

South Hadley, MA. 1999 - 2001.

• Acting the Dreyfus Affair (cross-listed with Theatre Department)
• Contemporary French Society
• French Culture and Society
• French Language: Beginning I and II; Intermediate I and II
• Independent Studies in European Studies and Translation
• Nation and Supra-Nation: France in Europe
• National Identity and Public Memory in France

Teaching Assistant. French Department. New York University. New York. 1995 - 1998.

• Contemporary France; French I and II.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Panel Chair: "The Dreyfus Affair, Then and Now" and "Reshaping Identities in French Cities and Towns." Conference: Society for French Historical Studies. University of Houston, March 16, 2007.

"Muslims in France Today." Invited speaker at The American-Mediterranean Council. Houston, TX. April 17, 2006.

"Professional Women in Third Republic France." Conference: Women in French. University of New Hampshire. Durham, NH. April 7, 2006.

"The Rise of Professional Women in Third Republic France." Invited Lecturer at the University of Houston Honors College and Modern and Classical Languages Department. April 11, 2005.

"Xenophobia and Exclusion in the Professions in Interwar France." Conference: Society for French Historical Studies. Stanford University. March 18, 2005.

"The Holocaust and Antisemitism in France." Participant in the Hess Faculty Seminar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC. January 2005.

"Apologizing for Vichy in Contemporary France." Conference: Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past. German Historical Institute. Washington, DC. March 27-29, 2003.

"The Politics of Recognition: Apologizing for Vichy in Contemporary France." Conference: Apologies: Mourning the Past and Ameliorating the Present. Thornton F. Bradshaw Seminar in the Humanities. Claremont Graduate University. Claremont, CA. February 7-10, 2002.

Panel Commentator: "French Uses of America." Conference: Western Society for French History. Indianapolis, IN. October 31, 2001.

"Women Lawyers and Doctors in France: The Struggle for and against Access." The Five College Women's Studies Research Center. South Hadley, MA. February 2000.

"La Mobilisation xénophobe des professions juridique et médicale dans la France de l'entre-deux-guerres." Conference: Les Exclus en Europe, 1830-1930. Université de Paris VII, Denis-Diderot. Laboratoire histoire et civilisations des sociétés occidentales. January 1998.

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Jack and Anita Hess Seminar Follow-up Grant, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2006. (declined).
• University of Maryland Baltimore County Summer Faculty Fellowship. 2002.
• Mount Holyoke College Research Assistance Grant. Spring 2000.
• Mount Holyoke College Faculty Grant. Fall 1999.
• Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, NYU. 1997 - 1998.
• Bourse Chateaubriand, Cultural Services of the French Embassy to the United States. 1996 - 1997.
• Gilbert Chinard Fellowship, Institut Français de Washington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. May 1996.
• MacCracken Multi-Year Fellowship, NYU. 1993 - 1999.
• Grand Marnier Fellowship. 1992 - 1993.
• Cum laude. Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. 1989.
• Valedictorian. De Paul High School. Wayne, NJ. 1985.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Society for French Historical Studies. Programming Committee for the 53rd Annual Meeting. March 15-17, 2007. Houston, Texas.

Rice University:
Humanities Research Center Faculty Advisory Panel (2005-2008)
Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Director of Kristin Youngless' Capstone Project "Gender and Professional Identities among Engineers" (2006-2007)
Department of French Studies: Undergraduate, Lectures, Graduate Language Assessment, Research and Travel Fund, and Club Chouette Committees
Faculty Associate, Lovett College
Faculty Coordinator for Huma Courses and Dunlevie Summer Writing Program for Undergraduates (2006-2008)
Focus Europe Steering Committee

University of Maryland Baltimore County:
Redesign of French curriculum
Faculty Liaison to the Intercultural Living Exchange

Mount Holyoke College:
Undergraduate research project: French Angst at the Turn of the Millennium: anti-Americanism, Globalization and "old" National Identities

OTHER ACADEMIC WORK

KTRU: creator of "The Professors' Show" on the Rice University student-run radio station, 2007-present

Facing History and Ourselves (www.facing.org). Academic Consultant. 2006-present

Translated archival papers of the Dreyfus Affair for The Forzinetti Archive and the Dreyfus Affair, edited by Patrick McGrath and Glenn Horowitz. NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2002. Archive was acquired by the Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.

Interviewer for the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Paris and New York, 1994-96.