Elegant Resume - Fordham University

ROSEMARY WAKEMAN
History Department/Urban Studies Program
Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street
New York, New York 10023
(212) 636-7359 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, University of California, Davis, 1985
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris 1978-1979
M.A. History, University of California, Davis, 1973
B.A. University of California, Davis, 1971
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS:
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Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement, (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2016).
 The Heroic City: Paris 1945-1958 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
 Themes in Modern European History, 1945 to Present, Michael Biddiss,
General Editor (London: Routledge Press, 2003).
 Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse 1945-1975 (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1997).
GUEST EDITOR, JOURNAL ISSUES:
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Special Dossier: "Les Halles: Politics, Planning, and Urban Space in Paris," French
Politics, Culture & Society, 25(Summer 2007).
"Dossier New York," (co-editor Thierry Paquot) Revue Urbanisme, 350(SeptemberOctober 2006).
Special Issue: ''New Perspectives on Modem Paris," (co-editor Charles Rearick),
French Historical Studies 27(Winter 2004).
RECENT ARTICLES:
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“Was there an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscape,”
(Trans)Nationalism and the German City. Jeffrey Diefendorf and Janet Ward, eds.,
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
“Rethinking Postwar Planning History,” Planning Perspectives, Special Issue on
Postwar Planning, ed. Carola Hein, no. 2, 29(2014).
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“Independent Filmmaking and the Paris Suburbs,” French Politics, Culture &
Society, 31(Spring 2013).
Veblen Redivivus: Leisure and Excess in Europe," Oxford Handbook of Postwar
European History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
“Toulouse: d’un modernization à l’autre,” Revue Urbanisme, Numéro spécial sur
Toulouse, no. 40 (September 2011).
«Le World Trade Center dix ans après,» Revue Urbanisme, no. 380 (SeptemberOctober 2011).
"The Fourth Republic," in Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert and Christophe
Prochasson, eds., The French Republic (Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2011).
""Le grand New York: une mega-région?" Revue Urbanisme 368(Sept.-Oct.
2009):77-78.
RECENT RESEARCH TALKS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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“Constantine Doxiadis and the Ekistics Movement,” International Planning History
Society Conference, Delft, the Netherlands, 20 July 2016.
“Tomorrowland : New Town Utopias of the 1960s, ” Utopian Urban Futures
Conference, University of Leeds, England, 27 June 2016.
“Imaginer la métropole de l’avenir: Le Schéma Directeur de 1965,” Inventer le Grand
Paris Conference, Paris, 1-2 December 2015.
Conclusion “La Cité nouvelle en question,” LABEX Urban Futures Conference,
Paris, 23 January 2015.
“Le Rapport de la Commission du logement et de l’aménagement du territoire de
l’état de New York et le Plan régional de New York et ses Environs, ” Inventer le
Grand Paris Conference, Paris, 5-6 December 2014.
“Colonial Cities as Future Metropolis: L’Urbanisme aux Colonies et dans les Pays
Tropicaux,” IGK Metropolitan Temporalities Conference, Berlin, 20-22 November
2014.
Keynote Presentation: “Urban Imaginaries and Regimes of Expertise,”
Reconstructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968 Conference, University of
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 18-20 December 2013.
“Writing Modernism, Modernization, and Contemporary Urban History, University
of Gießen, Germany, 19 June 2013.
“Shaping the Discourse on Modernity,” Launch of International Journal of History,
Culture, and Modernity, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 5 June 2013.
“Constructing Utopia: New Towns, Cybernetics, and Social Science,” Center for
Metropolitan Studies, Technical University, Berlin, Germany, 23 May 2013.
“Metropolitan Encounters: European Cities in the Public Debates about
Modernization, Diversity, and Identity,” E-Humanities Conference, NIAS, 25 April
2013.
“Constructing Utopia: New Towns, Cybernetics, and Social Science,” University of
Maastricht, the Netherlands, 24 April 2013.
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