Jean-François Mouhot - Georgetown University

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Jean-François Mouhot
Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington DC
[email protected]
2000-5 PhD in History and Civilisation, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy
Title: Les Réfugiés acadiens en France (1758-1785): l’impossible reintegration?
I was awarded a full grant (maintenance and fees) for three and a half years to complete the PhD.
1998-9 MA in History, mention très bien (highest possible grade), Université de Franche-Comté
(Besançon, France). Year spent at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada.
1997-8 B.A. in History and Geography, mention bien (highest grade awarded that year), Université de
Franche-Comté. Third year of studies spent at the University of Birmingham (Erasmus grant).
June
20112014
Georgetown University/EHESS, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Project: “An Environmental
History of Haiti, 1492-2010”, under the supervision of Professors John R. McNeill and Geneviève
Massard Guilbaud (funded by the EU)
20082011
University of Birmingham, Department of Modern History. Post-Doctoral Research and
teaching fellow, 'Non-governmental organisations in Britain, 1945-1997' project (principal
investigators of the project: Matthew Hilton and Nick Crowson)
20062007
University of Birmingham, Department of Modern History. Project archivist and teaching
fellow, DANGO Project (Database of archives of Non-Governmental Organisations).
20042006
Université de Lille 2 (France). Teaching and Research Fellow (Attaché d'enseignement et de
recherche - ATER).
1999 2000
National University of Ireland, Galway, Careers Service: website researcher and developer
(European 'Eurodyssey' placement) and Teaching and research assistant (part-time)
2007 – Campaigns and Communication officer, Operation Noah, London (organisation campaigning
2008
against Climate Change) (full-time salaried job)
2006 – Climate Change Campaigns Coordinator, Birmingham Friends of the Earth (voluntary work)
2007
2000- General student representative, European University Institute
2001
LANGUAGES
English: fully fluent
French: native speaker
Italian: read, understood, spoken
Spanish: read, understood, spoken.
German: basic knowledge.
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Most significant publications & awards
1. Single-authored books:
• Les Réfugiés Acadiens en France (1758-1785): l’impossible ré-intégration? (Québec: Septentrion,
March 2009, 456 pages). (awarded the Pierre Savard Prize 2010)
• Des esclaves énergétiques. Réflexions sur le changement climatique, Champ Vallon, collection
‘l’environnement a une histoire’, 2011, forthcoming.
2. Co-authored books (forthcoming, 2011-2012):
• (under contract with Oxford University Press): The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern
Britain (with M. Hilton, N. Crowson and J. McKay).
• (Under contract with Palgrave) Historical Handbook of NGOs since 1945 (with Matthew Hilton, Nick
Crowson and James McKay).
3. Co-Edited book (forthcoming, 2012):
• (forthcoming) Une protection de la nature et de l’environnement à la française ? (19e-20e siècles), (with
Charles-François Mathis), under contrat with Champ Vallon, coll. l’environnement a une histoire.
4. Most recent articles/chapters published in refereed journals/academic books:
• "Le Greenrush. Essai d’interprétation de la « bulle verte » en Grande Bretagne dans les années 1980",
Vingtième Siècle, numéro spécial "L'invention politique de l'environnement", n°113, janvier-mars 2012
(with Matthew Hilton & James McKay).
• "Past connections and present similarities in slave ownership and fossil fuel usage" Climatic Change
105, no. 1 (2011): 329-355. (http://www.springerlink.com/content/w310wk5g49w83650)
• (accepted) "Acadian emigration to Louisiana in 1785: new perspectives", Louisiana History
• "The Acceleration of the Anthropocene" In Past Actions: Present Woes, Future Potential': Rethinking
History in the Light of Anthropogenic Climate Change, ed. M.Levene, Higher Education Academy 2010.
• 'Les ONG et les mouvements de protection de l'environnement au Royaume-Uni: une autre manière de
faire de la politique', Histoire & Sociétés, 27 (2009), pp. 58-89 (with Matthew Hilton & James McKay).
5. Others
• Edition of archival documents in journals such as Louisiana History & Acadiensis.
• Reviews of books for journals such as Les Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales ; Contemporary British
History ; Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique française ; Revue Internationale des Livres et de Idées.
• I have contributed over half a dozen general public articles in wide-reaching magazines and
newspapers such as Le Monde, History Today, BBC History Magazine, L’Histoire, History & Policy,
History News Network, The Ecologist, and ActiveHistory.ca.
• Online publications: a) database of 1500+ archival documents related to Acadian Refugees in France in
the 18th century (www.jfmouhot.free.fr) b) database of archives of Non-Governmental Organisations in
Britain (www.dango.bham.ac.uk)
• Organisation of conferences/seminars (recent): a) “Protecting nature and the environment in the 19th
and 20th centuries – the French experience”, Paris, Sept. 2010; b) Witness Seminar: “The Green breakthrough of 1989: meaning, significance and legacy”, London, IHR, Oct. 2010; c) “An End to History?
Climate Change, the Past and the Future”, April 2008, Birmingham; d) Environmental History Seminar
series, Birmingham University in 2008-2010.
• Conference contributions: over 25 papers given at conferences in France, Britain, USA, Canada, Italy.
• Main awards: € 250,000 (Marie Curie Fellowship “Environmental History of Haiti”); £440,605 (coapplicant, NGOs in Britain project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust); Full grant (maintenance and fees)
for three years to complete the PhD by the European University Institute; various conference
participation grants (British Academy; Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises).
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