Laura Levine Frader - Northeastern University

Laura Levine Frader
Curriculum Vitae
November 2014
DEGREES: Ph.D. University of Rochester, 5/78
M.A. University of Rochester, 6/70
B.A. Reed College, Portland, Oregon 6/67
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:
Appointments at American Universities:
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern
University, 7/11-present
Professor of History, Northeastern University, 7/04-present.
Chair, Department of History, Northeastern University 7/03-7/11.
Acting Chair, Department of History, Northeastern University, 7/01-6/02
Senior Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 9/92-present.
Director, Women's Studies Program, Northeastern University, 9/89-9/93.
Associate Professor, Department of History, Northeastern University, 7/86-7/04
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northeastern University, 9/79-6/86.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan,
8/78-9/79.
Instructor, Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1/78-5/78 and
1/77-5/77
Visiting Appointments at Foreign Universities:
Visiting scholar, Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales (Centre de Recherches historiques),
Paris. France, September 2002-December 2002
Guest Professor (Professeur Invité), Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences sociales (Centre de
Recherches historiques), Paris, France, March 18-29, 1997 and May 27-June 7, 1997.
Guest Professor (Professeur invité), Département d'Histoire, Université de Paris VIII, France,
October-December, 1995.
Research Associate, Centre d'Etude de la vie politique française (CEVIPOF), Fondation national
des Sciences politiques, Paris, 1/94-7/94 and 1/95-7/95.
Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Social History, University of Warwick, U.K., 10/82-9/83
and 9/84-12/84.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, University of Aston in Birmingham, U.K.,
10/82-9/83.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. Duke University
Press, 2008.
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The Industrial Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (co-editor with
Herrick Chapman). New York: Berghahn, 2004.
Gender and Class in Modern Europe (co-editor with Sonya O. Rose) and contributor. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1996.
Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics and Unions in the Aude, 1850-1914.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
The Vine Remembers: French Vignerons Recall Their Past (with Leo Loubère, Jean Sagnes and
Rémy Pech), Albany: SUNY Press, 1985.
Refereed Journal Articles:
“French History: Old Paradigms, Current Tendencies, New Directions,” French Politics, Culture,
and Society 32:2 (Summer 2014): 21-33.
“Depuis les Muscles jusqu’aux Nerfs: le genre, la race et le corps au travail en France, 19191939,” in Travailler: Revue internationale de Psychopathologie et de Psychodynamique du
Travail No. 16 (2006): 111-144.
“ “Labor History After the Gender Turn: Transatlantic Cross Currents and Research Agendas,”
International Labor and Working-Class History 63 (Spring 2003): 21-31.
“From Muscles to Nerves: Gender, ‘Race,’ and the Body at Work in France, 1919-1939,”
International Review of Social History 44 (1999 Supplement): 123-147.
"Définir le droit au travail: rapports sociaux de sexe, la Famille, et le salaire en France au XIXe et
au XXe siècles," in Le Mouvement Social No.184 (July-September 1998):5-22.
"Bringing Political Economy Back in: Gender, Culture, Race and Class in Labor History," in
Social Science History 22:1 (Spring 1998): 7-18.
"Femmes, genre et mouvement ouvrier en France au XIXe et XXe siècles: bilan historique et
perspectives de recherche," Clio: Histoire, Femmes, et Sociétés 3 (1996): 223-244.
"Social Citizens without Citizenship: Working-Class Women and Social Policy in Interwar
France," Social Politics 4 (Summer/Fall 1996): 111-135.
"La Division sexuée du travail à la lumière des recherches historiques," Les Cahiers du Mage 3-4
(1995): 143-156.
"Socialists, Syndicalists and the "Peasant Question" in the Aude," Journal of Social History, 19
(Spring, 1986): 451-472.
"La Femme et la Famille dans les Luttes Viticoles De l'Aude: Coursan 1903-1913," Sociologie du
Sud-Est 21 (Juillet-Octobre, 1979): 33-54.
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"Paysannerie et Syndicalisme révolutionnaire: Les Ouvriers Viticoles de Coursan, Aude, 18501914," Cahiers d'Histoire de l’Institut Maurice Thorez 28 (1978): 11-38.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles:
“Genere I reconstruccio de la historia de la classe treballadora europea,” with Sonya O. Rose,
AFERS 33/34 (1999): 367-392. Translation of “Gender and the Reconstruction of European
Working Class History (1996)”
"Women and French Unions. Historical Perspectives on the Crisis of Representation," French
Politics and Society 14 (Fall 1996): 23-36.
Book Chapters:
‘L’évolution de la question du travail dans le gender studies,” [‘The Evolution of the Question of
Work in Gender Studies,’] in Margaret Maruani, ed. Travail et Genre dans le Monde: l'Etat des
Savoirs. Paris : Editions de la Découverte, 2013.
“La production des savoirs de l’Orient: la préhistoire du postcoloniale,” [“Producing Oriental
Knowledges: the Prehistory of the Postcolonial.”], in Anne Berger and Eleni Varikas, eds.,
Situations postcoloniales et régimes de sexe. Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, 2011.
“Classe, Historicité et ‘Agency :’ Gender et le Travail de E.P. Thompson,” [“Class, Historicity,
and ‘Agency:’ Gender in the Work of E.P. Thompson,” in Danielle Chabaud-Rychter, Virginie
Descoutures, Anne Marie Devreux et Eleni Varikas, eds., Questions de genre aux Sciences
sociales [Gender Questions in the Social Sciences]. Paris : Editions « Autrement » 2010.
“Différences des Sexes et Politiques sociales en France,” in Jean Birnbaum, ed., Sexe et Genre
Quelle Différence? Paris: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008, 77-92.
“Genre et classe dans les vignobles : mouvement syndical et la révolte de 1907 dans le
narbonnais” in Xavier Verdejo, ed., 1907 en France. Nimes : Institut d’Histoire SocialeConfédértion générale du travail (CGT), 2008, 131-152.
“Industry and Industrialization,” in Bonnie G. Smith, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in
World History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“Labor Unions, Protests, and Strikes,” in Bonnie G. Smith, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Women in World History. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“Introduction: Race in France,” with Herrick Chapman in Race in France: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, co-editor with Herrick Chapman. New York:
Berghahn, 2004, 1-19.
“Gender and Labor in World History,” in Teresa Meade and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds. The
Blackwell Companion to Gender in History. New York: Basil Blackwell, 2004, 26-50.
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“A propos d’une perspective féministe en histoire du mouvement ouvrier,” in Irène Corradin et
Jacqueline Martin, Les Femmes: sujets d’histoire. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail,
1999, 61-79.
"Women and French Unions. Historical Perspectives on the Crisis of Representation," in Herrick
Chapman, Mark Kesselman, and Martin Schain eds., A Century of Organized Labor in France.
New York: St. Martin's, 1998, 145-166.
"Doing Capitalism's Work: Women in the Western European Industrial Economy" in Renate
Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Merry Wiesner Hanks, eds., Becoming Visible: Women in
European History 3rd edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998, 295-325.
"Précarité du travail et rapports sociaux de sexe: une perspective historique," in La précarisation
sociale: Travail et Santé, edited by Béatrice Appay et Annie Thebaud-Mony. Paris: CNRSIRESCO, 1997, 293-311.
"Engendering Work and Wages: The French Labor Movement and the Family Wage,” in Frader
and Rose, eds., Gender and Class in Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996, 142164.
"Gender and the Reconstruction of Working-Class History in Modern Europe," with Sonya O.
Rose, in Frader and Rose, eds., Gender and Class in Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1996, 1-33.
"Histoire des féminismes, différences, et 'identités' de classe en France au vingtième siècle," in
EPHESIA, La Place des Femmes. Les Enjeux de l'identité‚ et de l'inégalité‚ au regard de
sciences sociales.Paris: Editions de La Découverte, 1995, 358-362.
"Paris: City of Light and Shadow," with Nancy Green and Pierre Milza, in Dirk Hoerder and
Horst Rössler, eds., Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience,
1840-1930. New York and London: Holmes and Maier, 1993, 34-51.
"Female Adolescence and the Family: a Historical View," revised and updated, with Lyman C.
Wynne, M.D., Ph.D., in Max Sugar, M.D. ed., Female Adolescent Development 2ed edition. New
York: Brunner/Mazel, 1993.
"Beyond Separate Spheres: Women, the Family and Protest in 19th and 20th century France" in
D.R. Kaufman, ed., Public/Private Spheres: Women, Past and Present. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1989.
"Women and the Emergence of Industrial Capitalism in Western Europe," in Renate Bridenthal,
Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard, eds., Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 2ed
edition. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987, 309-333.
"Women, Work and Inequality in Contemporary France," in Peter Morris, ed., Equalities and
Inequalities in France. London: Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France,
1984, 188-203.
"Grapes of Wrath: Vineyard Workers, Labor Unions and Strikes in the Aude, 1903-1913," in
Louise A. Tilly and Charles Tilly, eds., Class Conflict and Collective Action. Beverly Hills, CA.:
Sage, 1981, 185-206.
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"Female Adolescence in the Context of the Family: an Historical View," with Lyman C. Wynne,
M.D., in Max Sugar, M.D., ed., Female Adolescent Development. New York: Brunner/Mazel,
1979, 63-82.
Abstracts:
"Peasants, Property and Proletarians in the Rural South," Proceedings of the Western Society for
French History, 8th Annual Meeting, Santa Barbara, Ca.: Western Society for French History,
1981.
"Women's Work and Family Labor in the Vineyards of Lower Languedoc," Proceedings of the
Western Society for French History, 7th Annual Meeting, Santa Barbara Ca.: Western Society for
French History, 1981.
Miscellaneous:
“Afterward,” Susan Grayzel and Philippa Levine, eds. Gender, Labor, War, and Empire. New
York and Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009, 256-258.
Radio interview and discussion with Laura Frader and Joan Scott, moderated by Emmanuel
Laurentin, “Histoire des femmes, histoire de genre: France et les Etats-Unis,” (“Women’s
History/Gender History: France and the U.S.”) on “Le Fabrique de l’histoire” aired on France
Culture (French Culture National Radio), June 5, 2004.
Co-Editor, “Race in France,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 18:3 (Fall, 2000) with Herrick
Chapman.
Editor, French Politics and Society 12 (Fall, 1994), special issue in commemoration of the 50th
anniversary of women's suffrage in France.
Co-Editor, Issue 56 (Spring, 1993) of Radical History Review "Memory and History," with David
Nasaw
Co-Editor, Issue 52 (Winter, 1992) of Radical History Review with George Chauncy and Barbara
Melosh.
Report on labor history at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual meeting March, 1991,
in International Labor and Working-Class History 39 (Spring, 1991): 77-79.
Co-Editor, Issue 48 (Spring, 1990) of Radical History Review with Priscilla Murollo.
Co-editor, Issue 43 (December, 1988) of Radical History Review "The Women's Story" with
Martha Howell, Victoria DeGrazia, Jane Caplan.
"Michelle Perrot: an interview with Laura Frader and Victoria De Grazia,” Radical History
Review No.37 (1987).
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"Le Musée d'Orsay: Presenting the 19th Century" (interview with Madeleine Rebérioux), French
Politics and Society 5 (June, 1987): 14-22.
"Guide Aux Archives nationales" French Historical Studies XV (Spring, 1987), pp. 170-172.
Entries for Adrien-Barnabé‚ Athanase de Recurt and Charles Gilbert Tourret, in Edgar Leon
Newman, Dictionary of French History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Comment on Panel, "From Patriarchy to Paternalism and Its Discontents," in Annual Proceedings
of the Western Society for French History. Santa Barbara, California: Western Society for French
History, 1984.
"Another Century of Struggle: Women in the Labor Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries,"
Northeastern Today V (February, 1980): 3-7.
Review Essays:
“Liberté, Egalité, Parité » in French Politics, Culture and Society, 27 (Spring 2009): 111-119.
“Women and Gender in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe,” in Signs: Journal of Women, Culture,
and Society 31 no. 2 (Winter 2006): 578-585.
“Engendering French Society Between the Wars,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 17, 3-4
(Summer/Fall 1999): 180-187.
"Dissent Over Discourse: Labor History, Gender, and the Linguistic Turn," History and Theory
34: 3(1995), 213-230.
"Recent Work on French Labor History" in French Politics and Society 9 (Spring, 1991): 75-81.
Book Reviews:
Numerous book reviews on French social history and European women's history in The American
Historical Review, Signs: Journal of Women, Culture, and Society, The Journal of Modern
History, European Economic History Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of
Social History, and French Politics, Culture, and Society.
FORTHCOMING WORK (Under Contract):
Co-author, Poverty and Social Policy: Social Citizenship in Historical, Comparative, and
Transnational Perspective, with Sonya Michel, Sara Rose, and Richard Scotch. Routledge/Taylor
and Frances.
“Gender, Ethno-racial Difference, and the Meanings of Work in 20th Century France,” in Jörn
Leonhardt and Willibald Steinmetz, eds., Semantiken von Arbeit in series, Industrielle
Welt. Vien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2015.
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“Genre, Travail et Politiques sociales en France au XX siècle [“Gender, Work and Social Policies
in Twentieth Century France,”] in Nicholas Hatzfeld et Xavier Vigna eds. Histoire des
travailleurs au XXe siècle. Dijon: Presses de l’ Université de Bourgogne, 2015.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:
“Citizenship and Gender Equality Policy in the European Community,” a book-length history of
the process of incorporating gender equality into the European Community since the 1957 Treaty
of Rome, in progress.
“Gender Equality in the New Europe: France and the Creation of the European Economic
Community” article in progress.
“Britain and the European Economic Community: Equal Pay and Accession in the 1970s.” article
in progress.
INVITED PAPERS AND LECTURES, INTERNATIONAL:
‘L’évolution de la question du travail dans le gender studies,” Round Table on Travail et Genre
dans le Monde: l'Etat des Savoirs Paris, November 25, 2013
“Genre, Travail et Politiques sociales en France au XX siècle [“Gender, Work and Social Policies
in Twentieth Century France,”] at conference, Histoire des travailleurs au XXe siècle, Université
de Bourgogne, Dijon France, January 24-25, 2013.
“Mentoring Women in the Academy: Some Examples from the US,” at conference, “Women’s
Representation in Politics and Business,” Fondation europeénne d’études progressistes, Brussels,
Belgium, October 18-19, 2012
"Gender, Ethno-racial Difference, and the Meanings of Work in 20th Century France," in
workshop, “The Semiotics of Labor in Diachronic and Comparative Perspective," at Freiburg
Institute for Advanced Studies, July 9-10, 2010.
“La production des savoirs de l’Orient: la préhistoire du postcoloniale,” [“The Production of
Knowledge: the Prehistory of the Postcolonial.”], presented to the conference, “Situations
postcoloniales et régimes de sexe,” [“Postcolonial Situations and Sexual Regimes”] Université de
Paris VIII, Paris, France May 28-30, 2008.
“Différences des sexes et Politiques sociales en France,” [Sexual Difference and Social Policy in
France] presented to the Forum Le Monde- Le Mans, “Femmes/Hommes: Quel Différence ?” Le
Mans, France November 16-18, 2007.
“Gender et classe dans les vignobles : mouvement syndical et la révolte de 1907 dans le
narbonnais” [Gender and Class in the Vineyards : the Labor Movement and the 1907 revolt in the
Narbonnais »] presented to conference, 1907 en France, Narbonne, France, June, 13-14, 2007.
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“Regardes croisées: gender, race, et classe dans le pratique de l’histoire,” at seminar Genre,
Economies, Sociétés (GERS) at the Institut de Recherche sur les économies et sociétés
contemporaines (IRESCO), Paris, France, December 2, 2004.
"Re-Penser la Grande Crise: 'Gender' et différence en France dans les années trentes," presented
to seminar, “Questions théoriques et historiques de la citoyenneté en Europe,” Université de Paris
VII, France, December 12, 2002.
“Big Promises, Small Changes: Gender, History, and Citizenship,” presented at symposium on
“Women and Changing Democracy in the European Union,” The European Commission,
Forward Studies Unit, Brussels, June 29-30, 2000.
"Femmes et l'état: la protection sociale en France et aux Etats-unis," lecture given at the Ecole des
Hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, June 3, 1997.
"Le 'Genre,' la qualification et le syndicalisme en France entre les deux guerres," lecture given at
the Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, May 28, 1997.
"Le poids de l'histoire: histoire des femmes et histoire de "gender" aux Etats-unis et en France,"
lecture given at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, March 25, 1997.
"Le Gender de la citoyenneté: citoyenneté sexuée et citoyeneté sociale," lecture given at the Ecole
des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, March 18, 1997.
"Perspectives historiques américaines sur la division sexuelle du travail: état des lieux,"
Séminaire Européen sur les Différences de sexe et le Marché‚ du Travail, Etat des Lieux, CNRS
Groupement de Recherche Marché du Travail et Genre, December 8, 1995.
"Syndicalisme, Genre et Métier dans la France de l'Entre-Deux-Guerres," Seminaire de recherche,
"Histoire sociale, culturelle, et politique de l'économie XVIIIe au XXe siécles," Université de
Paris VIII, May 24, 1995.
"L'histoire de Genre plutôt que l'histoire des femmes," Contribution à la table ronde: "L'Histoire
des Femmes et ses Approches, A Propos du Genre," Université de Rouen, April 12, 1995.
"Politiques sociales et classe ouvrière en France dans l'Entre-Deux-Guerres," Seminaire "Etat et
Rapports Sociaux de Sexe," CSPRP, Université de Paris VII, Paris, March 17, 1995.
"Le Féminisme américain: approches méthodologiques et historiques," Département de
Sociologie, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, March 15 1995.
"Histoire des féminismes, différences, et 'identités de classe en France au vingtième siècle,"
presented to Colloque International de Recherche: Femmes, Hommes, Identité‚ Egalité,
Différence, French Senate, Palais de Luxembourg, Paris. March 6-7, 1995.
"La précarité‚ du travail et rapports sociaux de sexe: une perspective historique," Journée
d'études, GEDISST-INSERM "Précarité et Rapports sociaux de sexe," IRESCO, Paris, February
9, 1995.
"Engendering Work and Wages: the French Labor Movement and the Family Wage," presented
to the Seminar in Women's Studies, Sussex University, U.K. May 23, 1994.
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"Femmes et syndicalisme en France au XXe siècle: bilan historique et perspectives de recherche,"
Université de Paris VII, May 17, 1994.
"La Portée d'une perspective féministe et perspective de "gender" sur l'histoire du mouvement
ouvrier français," Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, April 22 1994.
“Histoire Culturelle/Histoire Sociale. Autour de l'Histoire des Femmes aux Etats-Unis: une
Réponse à Ruth Bloch," CEDREF (Centre d'Enseignement, de Documentation, et de Recherche
pour les Etudes féministes), Université de Paris VII, March 23, 1994.
"Women and Collective Action in Early 20th Century Rural France," Paper presented to the
Social History Seminar, Centre for the Study of Social History, University of Warwick, (U.K.)
October 5, 1984.
"The Poverty of Property: Family and Inheritance in Southern France," Paper presented to the
Social History Seminar, Centre for the Study of Social History, University of Warwick, (U.K.)
February 24, 1983.
"Aging and Inheritance: Retirement and the Contract of Generations in French Rural Society,"
Paper presented to the Economic and Social History Seminar, Sheffield University, (U.K.)
December 1, 1982.
"Peasants and Property in Southern France," Paper presented to the Social History Seminar,
School of History, University of Birmingham, (U.K.) November 24, 1982.
"La Femme et la Famille dans les Luttes Viticoles de l'Aude," Paper presented at the colloquium,
"Familles et pouvoirs," Centre de la Pensée Politique et Sociale Contemporaine, Université de
Provence-Aix, June 5-6, 1979.
INVITED PAPERS AND LECTURES, NATIONAL:
Keynote Address, “Gender Equality in the New Europe: France and the European Economic
Community in the 1950s,” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the New York State Association
of European Historians, Siena College, Loudon, New York, September 24, 2010.
“Masculin/feminine: Gender in the French Depression of the 1930s,” delivered at Boston College,
Department of History Dissertation Seminar, September 22, 2004.
“Gender, Race, and the Working Body in 20th Century France: Gender, Race, and the Working
Body,” invited presentation for “Gender, Labor, and Citizenship, the Future of History in Social
Inquiry in Honor of Louise A. Tilly,” New School for Social Research, New York, April 16,
1999.
"The Body at Work: Gender, Race, and Work Science in France Between the World Wars," at
Department of History (seminar of Professor Stephen Lawrence Kaplan), Cornell University,
April 30, 1998.
"The Crisis of the French Universities and the Strikes of 1995," Talk presented in Roundtable
(with Stanley Hoffmann, Suzanne Berger, George Ross, and Noëlle Burgi)
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on the 1995 Strikes in France, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 15,
1996
"Gender and the Political Order: European and American Perspectives on Citizenship," lecture
presented at Women's History Symposium, Expanding the Boundaries of Citizenship: Women
and Politics, sponsored by the Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March
14, 1992.
"Gender, the Family, and the Politics of Rural Life in Interwar France," presented at Symposium
honoring Leo A. Loubère, Professor of History, State University of New York, Buffalo, February
6, 1992.
"Gender and the French Labor Movement Between the Wars," talk presented to the French
Politics and Society seminar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 21,
1990
"Gender, Family, Church and State in Rural France Between the Wars," lecture delivered at
Brandeis University, November 16, 1989
"Putting Women Back into History" and "International Perspectives on the Problem of
Inequality," two invited lectures delivered on March 7, 1989 at College Misericordia, Dallas,
Pennsylvania.
"Women, Family Policy, and the State in Western Europe," Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium
on "Women and State Policy: International Perspectives," Northeastern University, November
10,1988
"Gender, Politics, Family, and the State in Early 20th Century France," Scholars Day Lecture,
Northeastern University, March, 1988.
"Women, Strikes and Protest in Twentieth Century France," Scholarship Day Lecture,
Northeastern University, May 10, 1985
"Women, Strikes and Revolutionary Syndicalism in Southern France," Invited paper presented at
Department of History Seminar, University of Missouri, St. Louis, March 20, 1985.
"The Donner Party: Women and Men, History and Poetry," Lecture given at Northeastern
University, May 6, 1982.
"Women and the Family in the Vineyards of Lower Languedoc, 1890-1914," Lecture given at
Brandeis University, Sponsored by the Department of History, April 30, 1981.
"Grapes of Wrath: Vineyard Workers, Labor Unions and Strike Activity in the Aude, 19031913," Paper presented at the Center for European Studies, University of Michigan, November
1978.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, INTERNATIONAL:
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“Creating Equality in Europe: the 1957 Treaty of Rome,” at the 17th International Conference of
the Council for European Studies, Montreal CA, April 15-17 2010.
“Gender, Class, and Citizenship in Post World War I France” paper presented at panel,
“Reconstituting Citizenship/Redefining the Citizen in Western Europe After World War I” at
Fourth European Social Science History Association Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 22-23,
2004.
“Penser les intersections: théorie et pratique du gender et classe dans le passé et au présent,”
Colloque Marx, Université de Paris XII Nanterre, France, September 28-30, 2001.
“Engendering the Right to Work in France: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Male
Breadwinner Ideal in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France,” presented at the conference,
“International Perspectives on the Male Breadwinner,” University of Salzburg, Salzberg, Austria,
December 10, 1999.
"From Muscles to Nerves: Gender, Race, Science, and Work in France, 1919-1939," Second
European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 5-7, 1998.
"Gender, Skill, and the Working Class in 20th Century France" presented at the First European
Social Science History Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, May 11, 1996.
"Genre et Salaire familiale dans le mouvement ouvrier français," presented at the Journée d'études
du groupe Syndicalisation CNRS-URA 1738, Paris, La Sorbonne, January 27, 1996.
"Working-Class Women and Social Citizenship in Inter-war France," presented at the conference,
"Crossing Borders: International Dialogues on Gender, Social Politics, and Citizenship,"
Stockholm University, May 27-29, 1994.
"Rural Women and Labor Unions in Southern France," presented at History Workshop 18,
Leicester, U.K. November, 1984.
"Women in the Workplace in 20th Century France: a Problem of Equality?" Presented to the
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, Leeds
University, September 16-18, 1983.
"The Poverty of Property: Family and Inheritance in Southern France," Presented to the Annual
Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 30, 1982.
"The Proletarianization of the Vineyard Workers of Lower Languedoc, 1890-1914," Presented at
the Annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France,
Loughborough, England, September 25-27, 1981.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES, NATIONAL
“Rights, Institutions and Policies: Historical Legacies and Equal Rights in the European
Community,” at Social Science History Association 36th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA November
22-24, 2011.
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“Legislating Equality between Women and Men in Europe: France and Economic Cooperation
after World War II” Society for French Historical Studies 56th Annual Meeting, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ, April 8-10, 2010.
“The Imperializing Process: Civility, Barbarism and Intimacy in France’s “Discovery” of Egypt,”
paper presented to the Berkshire Conference of Women’s History, University of Minnesota, June
12-15, 2008.
“Reconstituting Labor After the Great War: the Case of France,” for interdisciplinary conference,
“Cycles of Change: Reconstruction, Gender, and Public Life in Western Europe After the Two
World Wars.” Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University April 26,
2003.
“French Connections: Thinking Across the Atlantic about Research Agendas,” presented at
Roundtable, “Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Women’s History,” at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina March 9-11, 2001.
“Engendering the Right to Work in France: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Male
Breadwinner Ideal in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France,” presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Scottsdale, AZ, March 30-April 2, 2000.
"Making Connections: The Gendered Body and Gendered Work in France, 1919-1939,"
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 8-11, 1998.
"Gender and Culture in French Labor History," presented at roundtable, "Gender, Race, Class,
Culture, and Politics: Where do we go from here?" Twentieth Meeting of the Social Science
History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 16-19, 1995.
"Engendering Work and Wages: the Fate of the Family Wage in France," presented at the
Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Atlanta, GA., October 1416, 1994.
“Gender, Parties, and Organized Labor in Inter-war France," for panel on Gender and Class in
Comparative Perspective: the U.S., England, and France, Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the
Social Science History Association, Baltimore, MD, November 4-7, 1993.
"Women's Political Activism and Citizenship in Inter-war France," presented at roundtable,
"Women's Political Activism and Citizenship During the Inter-war Years," at the Fifteenth
Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 14-16,
1993.
"Gender, the Labor Movement and Political Culture in Twentieth Century France, 1919-1939,"
presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History,
October 21, 1992.
"Gender and the French Labor Movement in the 1920s," paper given at the Social Science
History Association meeting, New Orleans, LA., November 1-3, 1991.
"Work Engendered: the View From France," paper delivered at North American Labor History
Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. October 17-19, 1991.
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"Rural Women, Strikes and Unions in France before World War I," paper delivered at the Annual
Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, MINN, October 20, 1990.
"Gender and the French Labor Movement Between the Wars" Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of
the Society for French Historical Studies, University of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, March 2931,1990.
"Restoring L'Ame paysanne', Women Family, Church, and State in Inter-war France," Annual
Conference of the 15th Annual Meeting, Western Society for French History, Las Cruces, New
Mexico, October 29, 1987.
"Domestic Discourse Revived: Remaking the Peasant Family in Inter-war France," presented to
Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Wellesley College, June 9, 1987.
"Women's Collective Action and Revolutionary Syndicalism in the Aude, 1900-1914," presented
to the Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles, California, March,
1985.
"Female Consciousness and Revolutionary Syndicalism: The Mobilization of Rural Women in
the Aude, 1900-1914," Paper presented to the Fourth International Conference of Europeanists,
Washington, D.C. October 13-15, 1983.
"Agricultural Labor and Revolutionary Syndicalism in Lower Languedoc, 1900-1914," Presented
at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Bloomington, Indiana,
March 13-14, 1981.
"Peasants, Property and Proletarians in the Rural South," presented at the Western Society for
French History, Eighth Annual Meeting, Eugene, Oregon, October 23, 1980.
"Women's Work and Family Labor in the Vineyards of Lower Languedoc," Presented at the
Western Society for French History, Seventh Annual Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska, November 2,
1979.
"Family Life and Family Economy in the Vineyards of Lower Languedoc," presented at the
Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 17, 1979.
INVITED PANELIST, DISCUSSANT, MODERATOR, INTERNATIONAL:
Discussant, “The Reformation of Identity: Processing European Nationality and Citizenship in the
Wake of Total War, 1914-1919,” 20th International Conference of the Council for European
Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 24-27, 2013.
Chair, “Political Interchanges Between Unions and Governments: Cooperation and Conflict,” 20th
International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June
24-27, 2013.
“Gender and Social Policy in the Work of Sonya Michel,” roundtable talk, Social Science History
Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 4-5, 2012.
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Chair, Panel, “Do We Need an European Institute for Gender Equality? Expertise and Gender
Equality Politics,” European Union Studies Association Conference, Montreal Canada, May 1719, 2007.
Chair and Discussant, “Labor Contracts and Marriage Contracts” European Social Science
History Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 22-25, 2006.
Chair and Organizer, “Genre et nationalisme,” 3e Colloque International des Recherches
Féministes Francophones. Ruptures, Résistances et Utopies. Université de Toulouse Le Mirail,
France, September 18, 2002
Discussant, Panel, “Remapping French Modernization: Rationalization, Americanization and
Colonialism,” 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Toronto, Canada,
April 13. 2002
Chair and Organizer, “Gender, Race, and Citizenship,” European Social Science History
Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, March 2, 2002
Moderator and Commentator on Panel, "The Shaping of Syndicalism and Utopian Thought in
Post-1918 France" 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Vancouver,
B.C., Canada, March 22, 1991
INVITED PANELIST, MODERATOR, DISCUSSANT, OR ORGANIZER, NATIONAL:
Discussant, “Gender, Citizenship, and Feminist Politics in Twentieth Century Britain” at North
American Conference on British Studies, Portland Oregon, November 8-10, 2013.
Chair and Discussant on “Author Meets Critics” panel, Myra Marx Feree, Varieties of Feminism:
German Gender Politics in Global Perspective (Stanford, 2012) Eastern Sociological Society 83rd
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 23-24, 2013.
Panelist, “Strikes in France: a New Exceptionalism?” presented at panel discussion on strikes and
protest in France, The French Cultural Center, Boston, January 13, 2011.
Panelist, “Politics, Class, and Nation in the Work of Tony Judt,” presented at “Symposium on the
Work of Tony Judt,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 28, 2010.
Chair, “Author Meets Critics,” book panel on Kathrin Zippel, The Politics of Sexual Harassment:
the United States, the European Union, and Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2006) at 15th
Conference of the Council for European Studies Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 30- April
1, 2006.
Chair and Discussant, “The Marriage Contract and the Labor Contract,” at European Social
Science History Association Meeting, Amsterdam, March 23-25, 2006.
Invited Chair and Discussant “Social History, Politics, and the State,” Journal of Social History
Conference: the Future of Social History, George Mason University, October 22-24, 2004
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Invited Discussant on panel, “Gender, Race, and Religion in Colonial Context, 1830-1940,” at
50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Paris France, June 19,
2004
Invited Discussant, “New Perspectives on Gender and Welfare Regimes,” Mini Conference on
Gender, Society and the State, Social Science History Association Conference, Baltimore, MD,
November 12, 2003
Co-Organizer of Conference, “Cycles of Change: Reconstruction, Gender, and Public Life in
Western Europe after the Two World Wars,” Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies,
Harvard, April 26, 2003
Invited Moderator, panel, “New Perspectives on European Women at War,” 26th Social Science
History Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 15-17, 2001
Panelist, Retrospective Roundtable, “Labor History After the Gender Turn: How Far Have We
Come?” 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, October
27, 2000.
Invited Discussant, Panel “Gender and the Good Citizen II,” 25th Anniversary Meeting of the
Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, October 27, 2000
Co-organizer and Panelist, Workshop, “Post-Socialist Politics and Gender,” Center for European
Studies, Harvard, October 6, 2000.
Invited Discussant, "Blurring the Boundaries: Politics and Culture in the French Third Republic,"
A National Graduate Student Workshop, University of Michigan, October 24-26, 1997.
Invited Panelist, "Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 18501914: Social History and the Linguistic Turn." presented at the Twenty-second Meeting of the
Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October 16-19, 1997.
Panelist, Roundtable on Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose, eds., Gender and Class in Modern
Europe, Twenty-second Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C.,
October 16-19, 1997
Co-Organizer and Panel Chair, Conference, “Gendered Citizenships: European and Latin
American Perspectives,” Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard, March 1415, 1997.
Invited Discussant, "Taking the Hard Road: New Perspectives on Culture, Gender, and Class,"
presented at Twenty-first Meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, LA,
October 10-13, 1996
Chair, Panel: "Sex, Gender, Old and New Religions in 1850s France," 42ed Annual Meeting,
Society for French Historical Studies, Boston, March 22, 1996.
Co-Organizer, Conference, “Claiming Citizenship: Gender and Political Practice in the 19th and
20th Centuries,” at the Minda de Gunzberg enter for European Studies, Harvard University, March
21, 1996.
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Discussant, "Gender Ideology and Strategy on the Left," Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the North
American Labor History Association, Detroit, MI, October 27-29, 1994
Moderator, "Gender, Power and Aging," Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
June 13, 1993.
Discussant, "Politics and the Working Body" Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Social Science
History Association, Chicago, November 8, 1992.
Chair and Organizer, "Rethinking Class Formation in 20th Century Europe," Roundtable, North
American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 16, 1992.
Chair, "Work Engendered: Perspectives on the American Labor Movement," at Social Science
History Association meetings, New Orleans, LA., November 1-3, 1991
Comment on Panel, "Propaganda and Politics During Wartime France," at Annual Meeting of
Western Society for French History, Santa Barbara, California, November 8, 1990.
Moderator and Commentator on Panel, "Gender at Work" in Gender, Politics, and Society Study
Group, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, September 28,
1990.
Comment on Panel, "Excluded From Production: Initiatives Against Women in Pre-Industrial and
Welfare State England," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 8-10, 1990,
Douglass College, Rutgers University.
Comment on Judith Stone and Mary Lynn Stewart, Annual Meeting of the Society for French
Historical Studies, Columbia, South Carolina, March 17-19, 1988
Comment on Miriam Cohen and Michael Hanagan, "The Politics of Gender and the Making of
the Welfare State: A Comparative Perspective." Conference on Women and the Welfare State,
Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, February 6,1988.
Comment on Margaret Weitz "Battle Lines and Gender Lines" and "Some Thoughts on Women
in the U.S. During World War II." Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium, Northeastern
University, March 4, 1985.
Comment on Panel, "From Patriarchy to Paternalism and its Discontents in 19th Century France
and Belgium," Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, University of California,
Riverside, November 3-5, 1983.
Comment on John Fout, "German Factory Workers in the 1890s: Integrating Women's Sources,"
at the American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston College, April 3, 1981.
Moderator, panel on "Marriage, Remarriage and Work," with Dr. Hannah Wartenberg and
Professor Katherine Berheide, at Northeastern University, Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium,
"Women Caught Between Love and Money," February 27, 1981.
EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED:
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Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University,
for conference, "Gendered Citizenships: European and Latin American Perspectives," at the
Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 14-15, 1997,
$2,500. Co-PI with conference co-organizers.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Grant for conference, "Gendered
Citizenships: European and Latin American Perspectives," at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for
European Studies, Harvard University, March 14-15, 1997, $3,000. Co-PI with conference coorganizers.
Council for European Studies Workshop Grant for conference, "Gendered Citizenships: European
and Latin American Perspectives," at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, March 14-15, 1997, $2,500. Co-PI with conference co-organizers; I wrote
the grant for a jointly organized conference.
German Marshall Fund of the United States Research Fellowship for research project, “Gender
and Class in Modern France,” January-July 1995, $30,000. P.I. This fellowship supported one
semester of research (two Northeastern quarters) in archives and libraries in France.
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant, June-August, 1991, for "Gender and the Labor
Movement in Interwar France," $4,150. P.I. Grant supported one summer of research in archives
and libraries in France.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant, Summer, 1981, "Family and Property in French
Rural Society: Coursan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries." $2,500. P.I. Grant supported
one summer of research in the notorial archives the village of Coursan, France.
INTERNAL GRANTS RECEIVED:
Northeastern University Faculty Development Grant to fund "Scholars and Sisters: International
Research Associates in Women's Studies for 1995,” with Professor Christine Gailey, $2,500. CoPI Grant to fund a program of visiting scholars in Women’s Studies at Northeastern.
Northeastern University Instructional Development Fund Grant for "Restructuring the
Introduction to Women's Studies," with Professor Mary Loeffelholz for 1993-1994, $2,500. CoP.I. for curriculum revision.
Northeastern University Faculty Development Grant for Women's Studies Program “International
Research Associates Program for 1992-1993,” $2,500. P.I. Grant initiated and funded a program
of visiting scholars in Women’s Studies at Northeastern.
Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Development Fund Grant, June 1989-August
1989, for "Gender and Labor Unions in France Between the Wars," $3,400. P. I. Grant funded
exploratory summer research in libraries and archives and France in connection with research
project on gender and labor in France between the wars.
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Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Development Fund Grant, June 1984-July
1984, "Socialists, Syndicalists, and Communists in the Aude" $2,500. P. I. Grant funded summer
research in libraries and archives in France in connection with article, “Socialists, Syndicalists,
and the Peasant Question.”
Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Development Fund Grant, June, 1980February, 1982, "Women's Work, Family Labor, and the Life Course: Coursan, 1851-1911,"
$2,500. P.I. Grant funded research in Carcassonne, Narbonne and Coursan, France in connection
with preparation of manuscript, Peasants and Protest.
TEACHING AND ADVISING:
Undergraduate Courses:
Modern European History
Women in America
Work and Leisure
Gender and Society in Modern Europe
Gender and Society in the Modern World
History Seminar: Imperialism and Colonialism
Honors Seminar: Race and Class: Nations, Nationalism and Globalization
History Seminar: Gender and Society in the Modern World
Honors Seminar: Poverty, Society, and Welfare in Global Perspective
Graduate Courses:
Gender in Modern Europe
Gender and Society in the Modern World
Historical Methodology
Gender, Race, Class, and Colonialism
Nations and Nationalism
Theory and Methodology in World History
Supervision of Graduate Students Theses and Dissertations:
Master’s Theses Supervised:
Dolly Wilson, (Fall 1996-1997), “True Born English: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in
Commonwealth Immigration to England, 1945-1972.”
Sarah Schoenfeld, (Fall 1996-1998) “Race, Respectability, and Class at Boston’s Home for Aged
Colored Women 1860-1884.”
Grace Buchanan, (Fall 1996- never completed) “The ‘Mash’ at Mt.Holyoke: Intimate Relations
Between Students at Mt. Holyoke College, 1860-1910.”
Jill Massino, (Fall 1996-1999) “Bertha Tarnay: Biography of a Woman Artist in Dark Times.”
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Antoinetta Dimeo, (Fall 1996 – 1998) “The Era That Ushered in Change: Gender Crisis in Italy
from the First World War to the 1960s”
Celeste Bernardo, (Fall 1996- 2000) “There Were no Sheila Shopfitters: Gender Segregation at
the Boston Navy Yard During World War 1942-1945.”
Doctoral Dissertations Supervised:
Diane MacDonald, (1997-1998) “The New Deal Model of Collective Bargaining and the
Secondary Labor Market: Problems and Potential Solutions,” in Law, Policy, and Society
Program at Northeastern University, defended, Spring 1998 (member of committee).
Dora Dumont, (1997-1998) “Loving But Disloyal Subjects of the Pope. Collective Action and
Popular Politics in Bologna 1796-1860,” at Boston College, defended July, 1998 (external
member of committee)
Daniella Sarnoff, “Women and Fascism in Inter-War France,” (1999-2000) at Boston College,
defended June, 2000 (external member of committee).
Jeremy Neill, 2000-2004 “Popular Concepts of Masculinity and Adventure in Anglo-American
Society at the Turn of the Century,” at Northeastern University. defended August, 2004 (chair of
committee).
Dolly Wilson, “The True Sphere of Women: Gender, Work and Equal Pay in Britain, 19451975,” at Boston College, defended December 2004 (external member of committee).
Xavier Dunezat, Chômage et Action collective. Luttes dans la Lutte,” at Université de Saint
Quentin en Yvelines, December, 2004 (external member of committee).
Emily Berry, “From Criminals to Colonizers, the Salvation Army in India,” defended December
2008 (chair of committee).
Rachel Gillett, “‘Going Big Over There:’ Black American Music, Race, and Gender in
Transnational Perspective,” defended August 2010 (chair of committee).
Stephanie Boyle, “Hygiene, Urbanization and Religion in Nineteenth Century Egypt: the case of
Tanta,” defended August 2012 (member of committee).
Yan Li, “In Search of Socialist Modernity: the Chinese Introduction of Soviet Culture,” defended
August 2012 (member of committee).
Katherine Hubler, “Male Feminists in Weimar Germany,” at Boston College, defended
September 2012 (external member of committee).
Andrew Jarboe, “Soldiers of Empire in the First World War: Indian Troops in and Beyond the
Imperial Metropole,” defended April 2013 (member of committee).
Victoria Hallinan, “Cold War Cultural Exchange and the Moiseyev Dance Company: American
Perceptions of Soviet Peoples,” defended April 2013 (member of committee).
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Burleigh Hendrickson, “Decolonizing 1968s: Between Imperial Fragmentation and Enduring
Connectivity,” defended December 2013 (chair of committee).
Karima Ramdani, “Subjectivité (im)possible: Femmes, Féminité et Féminisme dans l’Algérie
coloniale,” Department of Political Science, Université Paris 8, defended June 2014 (external
member of committee).
Katrina Uhly, “Reconstituting Portals and Power Relations: the Internationalization of the Ecole
Poyltechnique,” Department of Sociology, Northeastern University, defended November 2014
(external member of committee).
Additional Teaching and Curricular Activities:
Lectures in INT 1150 and HST 1490 Introduction to Women's Studies, 1980-1985 and 19962001, 2003.
Lectures in Approaches to Women's History (Graduate Seminar): "The Family in History," May
6, 1980; "Women in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries," May 20, 1980.
Honors Seminar on Theory and Application in the Social Sciences, presented a two-week seminar
on Marxism and the Application of Marxist Theory to Historical Analysis, February 20-March 3,
1981.
Development of Curriculum materials on women's history for Western Civilization course HST
1102 at Northeastern University, (Spring 1982) (5 sets of colloquium reading materials).
Guest Seminars at the University of Aston in Birmingham, Department of Modern Languages:
"Women in Post War France" in Masters Option in Contemporary French Studies, July 7, 1982;
"Feminism in Contemporary France," in Masters Option in
Contemporary French Studies, July 6, 1983; "Women and Work in Contemporary France," in
Masters Option in Contemporary French Studies, July, 1984.
Lectures in INT 1170 War Work (honors seminar on work and the professions during World War
II)."Gender and Work." 1989, 1990, 1997, 1998.
Lectures in undergraduate methodology course, HST 1241, The Historian's Craft, on Marxism
and History, and Feminism and History, Spring 1992 and Spring, 1993.
Lectures in HST 1600 Topics in Global History: On Centennials and Celebrations: the World in
1898, Fall, 1998, “The Dreyfus Affair and Anti-Semitism in France.”
Lecture in HST 3241 Historical Methodology, Fall 2001, “Gender as a Category of Historical
Analysis.”
Lecture in INT/HST 103 Women’s Studies, Fall, 2005, “Gender, Race and Class in European
Women’s History.”
Founding board (1990-1991), Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at Radcliffe (now at
MIT). Participation in workshops on course development and team-teaching Consortium courses.
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Research and Reading Seminar on Women’s and Gender History with Katherine Hubler and
Megan Hektner, Boston College. Spring, 2006.
Research and Reading Seminar on Women’s and Gender History with Victoria Konarsky and
Morgan Adams, Boston College, Fall 2006.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Service to the Institution: Committee and Administrative Responsibilities, Northeastern
University
Department of History:
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1980-1981.
Outside Speakers Committee, 1980-1981.
Member, Search Committee, African History 1981-1982.
Member, Search Committee, Middle Eastern History1983-1984.
Member, Graduate committee, 1983-1985, 1990-present
Chair, Department Planning Committee, 1985-1986.
Chair, Department Planning Committee, 1985-1986.
Freshman Advisor, Department of History, 1985-1986.
Member, Department Operations Committee 1987-1989.
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1987-1989.
Member, Department Goals Committee, 1989-1990.
Member, Department Faculty Advisory Committee on Salaries, 1991-1992.
Member, Search Committee, Latin American History, 1992-1993.
Member, Search Committee, Middle Eastern History, Fall, 1993.
Member, Search Committee Russian and Eastern European Search, Winter, 1996.
Member, Search Committee, Russian and Eastern European Search, Fall, 1996.
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Fall, 1996-1999.
Head of Undergraduate Studies and Head Advisor, Fall, 1996-1999.
Member, Committee to Redraft Faculty Personnel Regulations 1996.
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee on Salaries (FACS), 1998-1999.
Chair, Search Committee in Atlantic History, 2000-2001.
Acting Chair, Department of History, 2001-2002
Chair, Department of History, 2003-2011.
College of Arts and Sciences:
Member, Committee to Draft a Women's Studies Minor, 1979-1981.
Member, Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1979-1981.
Chair, Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1980-1981.
Member, College Council of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1980-1982.
Member, Honors Committee, 1980-1985.
Member, Women's Studies Executive Board, 1981-1982, 1983-present.
Member, Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1981-present.
Member, College Council Agenda Committee, 1981-1982, 1987-1989.
Coordinator, National Women's History Week program, March 8-12, 1982.
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Chair, Honors Committee, 1983-1984.
Co-Coordinator, National Women's History Week program. March 5-9, 1984.
Member, College Council of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1985-1989.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee, 1988-1989.
Director, Women's Studies Program, 1989-1993.
Member, Strategic Planning Taskforce on Research and Scholarship. Winter 1993.
Member, Sociology Department Chair Search Committee, Spring 1993.
Chair, Committee to Draft a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Fall 1993-1994.
Member, Sabbatical and Scholarship Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 1996-1999.
Member, College Curriculum Committee, 1997-2000.
Member, Advisory Board, Program in International Affairs 2006-2009.
Member, Advisory Board, School of Social Science, Public Policy, and Urban Affairs, 20062010.
Co-chair (with Elizabeth Dillon) of College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Initiative, 20072008.
University:
Member, Committee on International Students, 1979
Reviewer, Instructional Development Fund, Spring, 1985.
Reviewer, Research, Scholarship and Development Fund (RSDF) Grants, 1991-1998.
Chair, Senate Faculty Grievance Committee, Spring, 1992
Member, Committee on the Common Academic Experience, 1992-1995.
Member, Ex-Officio, Affirmative Action Advisory Council, Fall 1993-1995.
Member, University Advisory Committee on Diversity, Spring 1993-1995.
Member, Committee on the Institute for Work and the Workplace, 1993-1995.
Member, University Standing Appeals Committee on Tenure, Fall 2004-2006.
Member, Senate Committee to Evaluate Dean of the College of Law, 2004-2005.
Member, Foundational and Transitional Research Strategic Planning Team, Spring 2007.
Service to the Discipline/Profession and Community:
National:
Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Boston, MA,
Cambridge, MA April 4-7, 2013.
Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies,
Boston, MA, March 21-23, 1996.
Program Committee Co-Chair, Women and Gender Network, Social Science History
Association, (1996-1998).
Publications Committee, Social Science History Association (1996-1999).
Program Committee, 2002 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
Steering Committee, Council for European Studies, (1996-2000).
Joan Kelly Prize Committee of the American Historical Association 2002-2004 (Chair, 2004).
Book Prize Committee, Council for European Studies, (2009-2010).
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize Committee of the American Historical Association, 2008-2012.
Membership on editorial boards:
Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society (January 2015- )
Marché du Travail et Genre (2012-present)
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French Politics, Culture, and Society 1987-present.
The Journal of Modern History, 1999-2001.
French Historical Studies., 1992-1995.
Radical History Review, 1986-1997.
Northeastern University Press, 1988-1991.
Manuscript Review for University Presses:
Northeastern University Press, 1980.
Cornell University Press, 1989-1994.
Oxford University Press, 2000-2001.
Duke University Press, 2000-2001.
University of California Press, 2000-2001.
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), 2007-2008.
Manuscript Review for Scholarly Trade Presses:
Ashgate, 2006.
Palgrave, 2003.
Routledge, 1997.
Holt, Reinhart, Winston, 1988.
Prentice Hall, 1987.
Grant Review:
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1988, 1990.
Research Planning Group Selection Committee, Council for European Studies, 1995.
Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute Radcliffe College, Final Selections Committee, 1997-2000.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2008-2010.
Regional:
Program Committee, New England Women's Studies Association Conference, "A Working
Conference on Women and Racism in New England," Simmons College, Boston, MA, February
8-9, 1981.
Local:
Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, 2014Co-Chair, French Study Group, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, 1991-2014.
Co-Chair, Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group, Minda de Gunzberg enter for European
Studies, Harvard University, 1991-2014.
Member, Founding Board, and Faculty, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe
(now at MIT), 1991-present.
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Co-Organizer, Conference, “Claiming Citizenship: Gender and Political Practice in the 19th and
20th Centuries,” at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University,
March 21, 1996.
Co-Organizer and Panel Chair, Conference, “Gendered Citizenships: European and Latin
American Perspectives,” Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard, March 1415, 1997.
Member, Advisory Board Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, 1997-2001.
Co-organizer and Panelist, Workshop, “Post-Socialist Politics and Gender,” Center for European
Studies, Harvard, October 6, 2000.
Co-Organizer, “Cycles of Change: Reconstruction, Gender and Public Life in Western Europe
After the Two World Wars,” Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard
University, April 26, 2003.
Co-convenor, Seminar in Transnational and Global History: “Gender in and Beyond the Nation,”
2004-2005 academic year.
Convener, Northeastern University Global History Seminar Series, 2007-2011.
Memberships in Professional Organizations:
American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Social Science History Association
Council for European Studies
Berkshire Conference of Historians of Women
European Social Science History Association
European Union Studies Association