CV
APPOINTMENTS
2023- Associate Professor of European and Global History, Rutgers University–Camden
2020- Graduate Faculty, Department of History, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
2018- Faculty, Africana Studies, Rutgers University–Camden
2017 Assistant Professor of European and Global History, Rutgers University–Camden
EDUCATION
2016 PhD in History with Distinction, University of Chicago
2008 MA in History, University of Chicago
2004 BA summa cum laude, with Honors in History and French, New York University
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
French Empire; Afro-Atlantic World; Race, Racism and Antiracist Movements; Youth;
Religion & Secularism; Europe-Africa Relations; Global and Transnational History;
Black European Studies; Reparations; History of the Present
PUBLICATIONS
Book
2022 Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era (Cornell UP).
- Winner, George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
- Honorable Mention, Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, NYU
- Honorable Mention, David H. Pinkney Book Prize, Society for French Historical Studies
- Honorable Mention, Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial History Society
- Paperback edition, August 2024
- Russian translation under contract with Academic Studies Press (forthcoming 2025)
- Reviewed in American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Journal of Social History; Tocqueville 21; H-France, H-Africa, H-Soc-Kult, Anthropos, Francia-Recensio
- Author-Meets-Critic panel at the 2023 African Studies Association annual meeting
Articles & Book Chapters
“Historicizing Race Talk in Contemporary France” (in development).
2026 “Race,” co-authored with Mélanie Lamotte, in Conklin and White, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the French Empire (under contract).
2025 “Brassage on Film: Interracial Friendship and the Promise of Multiracial Democracy in Jean Rouch’s La pyramide humaine.” Special Issue: Late Colonialism in Africa, Itinerario (forthcoming).
2024 “Notes on Sources: Leo Marker,” Journal of the Western Society for French History 49 (2024).
2019 “African Youth on the Move in Postwar Greater France: Experiential Knowledge and Decolonial Politics at the End of Empire,” Special Issue: Knowledge and Young Migrants, Know: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, Vol 3, no 2 (Fall 2019).
2018 AHR Conversation: Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations, American Historical Review Vol 123, Issue 5 (December 2018) [with Abosede George, Clive Glaser, Margaret D. Jacobs, Chitra Joshi, Alexandra Walsham, Bernd Weisbrod, and Wang Zheng].
2015 “Obscuring Race: Franco-African Conversations about Colonial Reform and Racism After World War II & the Making of Colorblind France,” French Politics, Culture & Society Vol 33, no 3 (2015).
Edited Volumes
2021 H-France Salon, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World, Part III: Pedagogy, Vol 13, Issue 18 (October 2021) [co-edited with Christy Pichichero].
2020 H-France Salon, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World, Part II: the Profession, Vol 12, Issue 1 (January 2020) [co-edited with Christy Pichichero].
2019 H-France Salon, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World, Part I: Scholarship, Vol 11, Issue 2 (March 2019) [co-edited with Christy Pichichero].
Reviews
2025 Book Review. Tyler Stovall, From Near and Far: A Transnational History of France (Nebraska 2022), Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).
2024 Review Essay. Frank Gerits, The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped A Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966 (Cornell 2023), H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-4, 15-20, September 2024.
2023 Book Review. Sarah Frank, Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France (Nebraska 2021), Cultural History Vol 12, issue 2 (2023).
2022 Book Review. Stephen Harp, The Riviera Exposed: An Ecohistory of Postwar Tourism and North African Labor (Cornell 2022), Journal of Social History (originally published online, August 2022).
2022 Book Review. Damiano Matasci et al., ed., Repenser la ‘mission civilisatrice’: L’éducation dans le monde colonial et postcolonial au XXe siècle (PUR 2020), Revue Suisse d’histoire 72/3 (2022).
2020 Article Review. J.P. Daughton, “The ‘Pacha Affair’ Reconsidered: Violence and Colonial Rule in Interwar French Equatorial Africa,” (JMH 2019), H-Diplo Article Review 991, October 27, 2020.
2017 Review Essay. Kristen Stromberg Childers, Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean (Oxford 2016), H-France Forum, Volume 12, Issue 4, no 3 (2017).
2017 Book Review. Andrew W.M. Smith and Chris Jepperson, eds., Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? (UCL 2016), H-France Review, Volume 17, no 205 (November 2017).
MEDIA
2025 Emily Marker on Black France, White Europe, “New Books in French History,” (audio podcast) [64min].
2024 Emily Marker and Monica van der Haagen-Wulff, “Colonialism and Its Impact on Political Solidarity Today,” (audio podcast of the Goethe Institute discussion series, “Double Exposure”) [65min].
2023 Emily Marker and Rachel Appelbaum in conversation about Black France, White Europe and Empire of Friends, “History Ex Silo,” (audio podcast of the journal, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History) [62min].
2022 Emily Marker on Black France, White Europe, “Conversations in Atlantic Theory” (audio podcast of the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy) [73min].
2022 Emily Marker and Christy Pichichero, Interview by Ian Coller, “The Tyler Stovall WSFH Mission Prize: Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Study of France and the Francophone World,” Journal of the Western Society of French History 48 (2022), 116-119.
2017 Emily Marker, Interview by Charlotte Faucher, “Voices of Early Career Researchers,” French History Network Blog (Society for the Study of French History, UK), November 21, 2017.
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2024 Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society
2024 Chancellor’s Grant for Faculty Research, Rutgers-Camden
2023-24 Faculty Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
2023 Chancellor’s Grant for Assistant Professor Professional Development, Rutgers-Camden
2021 Research Council Subvention, Rutgers University
2015 Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago
2015 Summer Grant, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago
2014 Kunstadler Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Chicago
2014 Travel Grant, Graduate Student Council, University of Chicago
2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
2011 Lurcy Dissertation Fellowship, Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust
HONORS, PRIZES & AWARDS
2024 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University
2024 Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, Rutgers-Camden
2023 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
2023 Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Research in Diversity & Inclusion, Rutgers-Camden
2023 Honorable Mention, Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, New York University
2023 Honorable Mention, Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial History Society
2023 Honorable Mention, David H. Pinkney Book Prize, Society for French Historical Studies
2022 Nominated for the Tyler Stovall WSFH Mission Prize (declined consideration)
2018 Open and Affordable Teaching Award, Rutgers University Libraries
2015 Edward T. Gargan Prize, Western Society for French History
2014 Bessie Pierce Prize Preceptorship, Department of History, University of Chicago
2004 Helen M. Jones Prize, Department of History, New York University
2004 Prix Bernard Garnier, Department of French, New York University
2004 Phi Beta Kappa
Invited Talks & Plenaries
2024 “Lessons from My Grandparents: The Future of Reparations in Transnational Europe.” Lecture at the Goethe Institute, Washington, DC, November 22.
2024 “Intimacies of Empire: New Books on Race, Religion, and Belonging.” Book Launch with Chie Ikeya, Guo-Quan Seng, and Durba Ghosh, Rutgers-New Brunswick, November 18.
2024 “Black France, White Europe.” Lecture at the Lutnick Library, Haverford College, February 15.
2024 “Black France, White Europe.” Virtual Book Talk in the SFHS series French Presse: New Books in French and/or Francophone History, with a comment by Todd Shepard, January 21.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Lecture at Villanova University, sponsored by Africana Studies and French and Francophone Studies, Villanova, PA, October 3.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Presentation in the plenary roundtable, “The Colonial Origins of the EU,” at the 18th EU Studies Association Biennial Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May 5.
2023 “Empire & Contemporary History.” Lecture at the Moorestown Friends School, 10th-Grade Research Symposium, Moorestown, NJ, May 1.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Lecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick, sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Department of French, April 6.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Lecture at the Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden, NJ, February 16.
2018 “Postwar Empire and European Unity: Competing Generational Projects in European and African France, 1940-1960.” Lecture at the Institute of French Studies, NYU, New York, February 12.
2017 “Combating Structural Racism in our Classrooms.” Presentation in the plenary roundtable, “Structural Racism in French History,” at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 2-4.
2017 “Qu’est-ce que le racisme? Un débat franco-africain dans l’après guerre, 1945-1955.” Lecture at the research seminar, “Les Populations noires en France: du préjugé de couleur à la colorblindness,” Université de Paris 8/Archives Nationales, Saint-Denis, France, January 12.
2014 “Between Europe and Africa: Youth, Education and Multiculturalism in France in the Era of Decolonization and the Construction of Europe, 1940-1968.” Lecture at the Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte nach 1800, University of Bern, Switzerland, May 21.
INVITED SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
2025 “Europe Without Borders.” Conversation with Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington History Seminar, January 13.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Conversation with Liz Fink at the Institute of French Studies MA/PhD Workshop, NYU, New York, February 14.
2019 “Secular and Christian: Recalibrating Laïcité in the Postwar Era from Brazzaville to Bruges.” Paper presented at the Philadelphia-Area French History Group, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, May 11.
2017 “Postwar Empire and Globalization: ‘Late’ Colonialism and the Global Turn in Contemporary Historical Studies.” Paper presented at the international workshop, “Globalizations, Global, World: History, Literary Criticism and Spaces of the Present,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, October 19-20.
2017 “Generational Power and Global Change: African Students, Cold War Youth Politics and Islam Noir in Postwar Greater France.” Paper presented at the Columbia University Seminar, “Beyond France,” Maison Française at Columbia University, New York, October 13.
2017 “Racial Reeducation in French Africa and Liberated Europe and the Making of Postwar Racial Common Sense.” Paper presented at the Modern Europe Workshop, Indiana University – Bloomington, February 17.
CONFERENCES
Conferences, Panels, Workshops Organized
2024 Conference Organizer, WSFH50: 50th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, San Francisco, CA, November 14-16.
2024 Panel Organizer, “Reflections on a Year of War and Protest: A Conversation with Ethan Katz and Emily Marker,” 50th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, San Francisco, CA, November 14-16.
2024 Panel Organizer, “Personal Papers, Wartime Stories: Three Experiments in Personal Family History,” 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Hempstead, NY, March 14-17.
2023 Organizer, “Whiteness in Postnational Europe: A Conversation with Hans Kundnani and Emily Marker,” Rutgers Center for European Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, October 24.
2023 Book Roundtable Organizer, “New Books on Transnational Activism and Decolonial/Anti-Imperial Politics, c. 1940s-1980s,” Joint SFHS-WSFH Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 16-19.
2023 Book Roundtable Organizer, “European Integration, Decolonization, and Racial Reconstruction: New Interconnected Histories of the Postwar Era,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 5-8, 2023.
2019 Panel Organizer (w/ Julia Roos), “Recasting Race After World War II: Transnational Perspectives,” 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 4-6.
2018 Roundtable Organizer (w/ Lauren Stokes), “Teaching Race as an Integral Part of European History,” at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 4-7.
2017 Series Organizer, “Youth, Race, and Culture in Afro-Europe, Parts I & II,” 6th Biennial Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures in Europe Conference, Tampere, Finland, July 6-8.
2017 Panel Organizer (w/ Sandrine Sanos and Emma Kuby), “Camps, Refugees, Race: Conceptual Repertoires of Decolonization in France after the Shoah,” 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society of French Historical Studies, Washington DC, April 20-22.
2015 Conference Organizer (w/ Guo-Quan Seng), New Directions in Global History: Rethinking Scale & Temporality, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Chicago, IL, April 9.
2015 Panel Organizer, “Global History: A Partial Vindication,” featuring C.A. Bayly, Emily Osborn, Faisal Devji and Diana Schwartz, New Directions in Global History International Conference, Chicago IL, April 9.
2015 Panel Organizer, “World/Big History from William McNeill to David Christian,” featuring Dipesh Chakrabarty, Julia Adeney Thomas, Kenneth Pomeranz, Frederik Jonsson and Kyle Gardner, New Directions in Global History International Conference, Chicago IL, April 9.
Presentations, Commentaries, and Chaired Panels
2025 Chair of the panel, “The United Nations, France, and Imperial Politics on the Eve of Decolonization, 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City, January 3-6.
2024 Chair of the panel, “Occluded Actors and Complex Violence: Pluralizing the Politics of French Decolonization,” 50th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, San Francisco, CA, November 14-16.
2024 “Europeanization through Repair? Austria’s Belated Reparations to Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, 1990s-2020s.” Paper presented at 48th Annual German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, September 26-29.
2024 “Passing On: Personal Family History, Intergenerational Archives, and Intimate Transfers of Knowledge.” Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Hempstead, NY, March 14-17.
2024 “Removing the Word ‘Race’ from the French Constitution in 2018 in Historical Perspective.” Paper presented at the 20th & 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, February 22-24.
2023 Chair of the panel, “Slavery and Colonialism: Narratives and Memory, Fictions and Reality,” 14th Biennial International/Interdisciplinary Research Conference of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association, Camden, NJ, August 1-3.
2023 “Historicizing Race Talk in Contemporary France.” Paper presented at the Joint SFHS-WSFH Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 16-19.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Talk given at the Joint SFHS-WSFH Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 16-19.
2023 “Black France, White Europe.” Talk given at the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 5-8.
2022 “Archiving as Autobiography: A Survivor’s Attempt to Make Sense of His Wartime Experience in France.” Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of French History, Victoria, BC, November 5-8.
2022 Comment on the panel, “Interrogating the Colonial Imaginary: Depictions of Racial Difference through Western Eyes,” at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Southern History Association (European History Section), Baltimore, MD, November 10-13.
2022 “Brassage on Film: Interracial Friendship and the Promise of Multiracial Democracy in Jean Rouch’s La pyramide humaine.” Paper presented at “Rethinking Late Colonialisms in Africa,” threeday virtual workshop, September 14-16.
2022 “French Intellectuals and Racial Theory.” Talk given at JanFest: A Conference in Honor of Jan Goldstein,” University of Chicago, May 12-13.
2020 “The Transnational Challenge of Black European Studies: A French Historian’s Perspective.” Talk given at the virtual workshop, “Black Lives Matter in Europe,” Center for European Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick, November 19.
2020 “Brassage on Film: Interracial Friendship and the Promise of Multiracial Democracy in Jean Rouch’s La pyramide humaine.” Paper scheduled to be presented at the French Colonial History Society Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, May 28-30. CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
2020 “Knowing Race: African Youth in France at the End of Empire.” Paper presented at the 134th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 3-6.
2019 Participant in the Roundtable, “History of Childhood and Youth, Part I,” 47th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Bozeman, MT, October 3-5.
2019 Chair of the panel, “The Empire Beyond the Ivory Tower: Non-Academics and the Legacies of Colonial History in Contemporary France,” 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 4-6.
2019 “Racial Reeducation in Liberated Europe and French Africa and the Making of Postwar Racial Common Sense.” Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, IN, April 4-6.
2019 Participant in AHR Roundtable, “Generations,” 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Society, Chicago, IL, January 3-6.
2018 Chair of the roundtable, “Rethinking the Paris Course,” 46th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 1-3.
2018 “Educational Exchanges and the Competing Horizons of Belonging in European and African France, 1944-1960.” Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, Philadelphia, PA, June 21-23.
2018 “‘Raceless Europe’ and the Study of European History.” Presentation in the roundtable, “Teaching Race as an Integral Part of European History,” at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 4-7.
2017 “Ending Empire and Uniting Europe: Racial Reconstruction and Development Aid Policy in France, Francophone Africa and the European Community, 1957-1965.” Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington DC, April 20-22.
2017 Comment on the panel, “Rupture or Continuity? Gaullists and Soldiers Envision a Fifth Republic, 1954-1960,” at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington DC, April 20-22.
2016 “Youth, Europe, and Imperial Transformation After World War II.” Presentation in the roundtable, “Colonial Regime Change in the History of the French Empire,” at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 3-6.
2016 Comment on the panel, “Political Transitions and New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century French West Africa,” at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 3-6.
2016 Chair of the panel, “Minorities and the French Mediterranean,” at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, March 3-6.
2015 “African Students on the International Stage and the Crisis of Postwar Colonialism.” Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Diego, CA, November 19-22.
2015 “Youth Internationalism and Islam in French West and Central Africa During the Cold War, 1948-1960.” Paper presented at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 5-7.
2015 “Europeanizing History and History Instruction in the French Union: Tensions between United Europe and Postwar Empire, 1944-1958.” Paper presented at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, France, July 8-10.
2014 “Scoutisme South of the Sahara: Youth Policy in Francophone Africa and the Limits of Laïcité in Postwar Greater France, 1943-1954.” Paper presented at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 13-15. Recipient of the 2015 Edward T. Gargan Prize for best graduate student paper post-1800.
2014 “From Brazzaville to the Congress of Europe: Education Policy in Postwar France, 1944-1948.” Paper presented at the New Perspectives on Postwar Empires in Africa African Studies Program Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, April 10-11.
2013 “Between European Integration and African Decolonization: Youth, Race and Cultural Reconstruction in Postwar France, 1943-1968.” Presentation at the SSRC-IDRF Fall Workshop, Boston, MA, September 26-29.
2013 “Colonial Reform and the Problem of Race in Postwar Greater France, 1945-1950.” Paper presented at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 24-26.
TEACHING
Undergraduate
- Western Civilization II/III
- France, Africa & the Caribbean
- Modern France & Its Empire
- European History on Film
- Racism and Antiracism in Europe
- Contemporary Europe
- Imperialism
- The Holocaust
Graduate
- Craft of History
- Empire & Decolonization
- Genocide in Global History
- Global Nineteenth Century
- Global Twentieth Century
Class Visits/Guest Lectures
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The Holocaust, Undergraduate History Seminar, Swarthmore College, Spring 2024
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Postcolonial Childhoods, Graduate Seminar, Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden, Fall 2023
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Debating Ethical Issues Across Disciplines, Undergraduate Seminar, Rutgers-Camden, Spring 2023
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History 101, Undergraduate Lecture, Rutgers-Camden, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
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Black Europe, MA Seminar, History/French, George Mason University, Fall 2021
PEDAGOGY, EQUITY IN THE ACADEMY & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Current/Ongoing Positions
2024- General Assembly Delegate, Higher Education Labor United (HELU)
2023- President, Camden Chapter, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Past Positions
2022-3 Member, Rutgers-Camden DEI Council
2022-3 Chair, Subcommittee on Faculty Affairs, DEI Council
2021-2 Chair, Tyler Stovall WSFH Mission Prize Committee, Western Society for French History
2020-2 Chair, WSFH Engagé.e.s Program, Western Society for French History
2019-23 Department Representative, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
2018-20 Member, Chancellor’s Committee for Institutional Equity and Diversity, Rutgers-Camden
2018-9 Member, Mission Prize Committee, Western Society for French History
2017-8 Member, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, Western Society for French History
2016 Teaching Fellow, Chicago Center for Teaching, University of Chicago
2015-6 Founder and Coordinator, Race and Pedagogy Working Group, University of Chicago
Events and Programs
2023 Roundtable Organizer (w/Elise Franklin), “Organizing in the University,” Joint SFHS-WSFH Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 16-19.
2022 Chair, “Academic Masculinities in the Field of French/Francophone History: A Roundtable,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of French History, Victoria, BC, November 3-5.
2022 Organizer and Chair, Tyler Stovall WSFH Mission Prize Awards Ceremony, 49th Annual Meeting of the Western Society of French History, Victoria, BC, November 3-5.
2022 Co-organizer, “WSFH Engagé.e.s presents: Speed Mentoring,” 67th Annual Meeting of the Society of French Historical Studies, Charlotte, NC, March 24-27.
2021 Co-organizer and facilitator of the Plenary Roundtable, “Beyond DEI: Rethinking Scholarly Community in French and Francophone History,” featuring Cathy Kudlick, Grégory Pierrot, and Suleiman Mourad, Western Society for French History Virtual Conference, October 22.
2021 Co-organizer, “Rethinking Mentorship in French History,” Western Society for French History Webinar, featuring Jennifer Sessions, Robin Mitchell, and Andy Denning, March 4.
2020 Co-organizer, “Equity & Solidarity in the Times of Covid-19,” Western Society for French History Webinar, featuring Adom Getachew, Muriam Haleh Davis, Jacob Collins, Rebecca Scales, and Christy Pichichero, July 20.
2020 Invited Facilitator (with Christy Pichichero), French Revolution Online Seminar (special session dedicated to discussing our series on race and racism in H-France Salon), July 9.
2020 Scheduled participant in the Roundtable, “Decolonizing the Classroom,” French Colonial History Society Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, May 28-30. CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
2020 Invited Facilitator, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Workshops for Faculty and Students, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Pennsylvania State University, April 6. CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
2019 Organizer, “Fahavalo” Film Screening (US Première) and Q&A with Filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta-Paes, Rutgers-Camden, October 1.
2019 Speaker, “Speak Up! Black Lives Matter at School,” Rutgers-Camden, February 4.
2018 Co-organizer, “Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom: A Workshop on Identity, Race and Power in the Classroom with Dr. Ali Michael,” Rutgers-Camden, March 26.
2018 Co-organizer, A Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of African Studies at Rutgers, [Screening of Abderrahmane Sissoko’s Timbuktu (2014) and panel discussion with with Carolyn Brown (History, New Brunswick), Ousseina Alidou (African Languages and Literature, New Brunswick), and Guy Weston (public historian, Timbuctoo Project)], Rutgers-Camden, February 12.
2017 Organizer and Facilitator, “Confronting Structural Racism in Practice: Curricular, Pedagogical, and Research Strategies,” workshop at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, Reno, NV, November 2-4.
2016 Co-organizer and Facilitator, “Identity and Achievement in the Classroom,” workshop at the Chicago Center for Teaching, University of Chicago, May 5.
2016 Organizer, “Effective Lecturing in History: A Conversation with History Faculty,” workshop at the Chicago Center for Teaching, University of Chicago, April 22.
2016 Co-organizer and Facilitator, “What’s Going on? Finding a Shared Language for the Transformation of Chicago’s South Side,” class at the Chicago Arts Incubator, February 16.
2016 Organizer and Facilitator, “Teaching and Encountering Race in the Classroom,” breakout session at the CSRPC’s Teach-In on Racism and Activism at the University of Chicago, February 12.
2016 Guest Facilitator, Professional Development Doctoral Student Workshop, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, December 3 (2015), February 25, April 7.
2015 Co-organizer and Panelist, “Talking about Race Talk. A Conversation About Derald Wing Sue’s Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence. Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues About Race,” Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago, December 10.
2015 Program Developer and Co-facilitator, Fundamentals of Teaching History Seminar, Chicago Center for Teaching, University of Chicago, October 9-30.
2015 Panelist, “Navigating Power and Privilege in Classroom Discussions,” UChicagoGRAD Workshop, University of Chicago, October 13.
OTHER LEADERSHIP & SERVICE
Current/Ongoing Positions
2025- Immediate Past President, Western Society for French History (WSFH)
2024- Editorial Board, Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth
2024- Faculty Advisory Board, American Friends of the Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW)
2024- J. Russell Major Book Prize Committee, American Historical Association (3-year term)
2023- Faculty Advisory Board, Center for European Studies, Rutgers University
2022- Executive Committee, Center for African Studies, Rutgers University
Past Positions
2024 President, WSFH
2024 Chair, Program Committee, WSFH50
2023 Vice President, WSFH
2023 Chair, Millstone Fellowship Committee, WSFH
2023 Chair, 2022-23 Paper Prizes Committee, WSFH
2018-21 Coordinator, Lees Seminar, History Department, Rutgers-Camden
2018-21 Governing Council, WSFH
2017-20 Judge, New Jersey National History Day Competition
2019 African American Search Committee, History Department, Rutgers-Camden
2019 Ancient Mediterranean World Search Committee, History Department, Rutgers-Camden
2014 Coordinator, Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop, University of Chicago
2010 Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago
Peer Review
2024 French Historical Studies, Journal of Modern History, Canadian Journal For European and Russian Studies, Swarthmore College Honors in History
2023 Princeton University Press, Manchester University Press, Polity Press, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Contemporary European History
2022 African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
2020 French Politics, Culture & Society
2019 Humanities
LANGUAGES
French (Near Native Fluency)
German (Advanced Reading, Basic Speaking)
Italian (Reading Only)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
African Studies Association
American Historical Association
Beyond France, Columbia University Seminar
Center for African Studies, Rutgers University
Legacies of Nazism Research Network [German Studies Association]
Migrant Knowledge Research Network [German Historical Institute]
Society for French Historical Studies
Transnational Memory and Identity in Europe Research Network [Council on European Studies]
Western Society for French History