CURRICULUM VITAE NANCY L. GREEN Office address

CURRICULUM VITAE
NANCY L. GREEN
Office address:
Centre de Recherches Historiques
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
54 bd Raspail
75270 Paris Cedex 06
France
Current Position
1995- Directrice d'études (Professor),
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Previous Positions
1981-1997 Visiting Professor, Stanford University (Overseas Studies Program Tours/Paris)
1990-1994 Maître de conférences (Assoc. Prof.), EHESS
1985-1990 Chef de travaux (Asst. Prof.), EHESS
1980-1985 Chargé de conférences (Adjunct), EHESS
1979-1980 Teaching and Research Fellow, Stanford University (California)
1976-1985 Instructor, Spring Intensive English Seminars, Ecole Nationale
d'Administration
1976-1985 Bilingual paralegal, Law Offices of S.G. Archibald (Paris)
Education
1996 Doctorat d'état (with honors) Université de Paris-VII
1980 Ph.D. (with honors) University of Chicago
1978 D.E.A. EHESS
1973 M.A. (with honors) University of Chicago
1972 B.A. (with honors and University of Wisconsin
Phi Beta Kappa) (Madison)
Grants, Honors, and Visiting Positions
Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2003
Visiting Professor, Université d’Addis Abeba, February 2006
Visiting Professor, Center for European Studies, New York University, Spring 2002
Visiting Professor, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, July 1998, July 1999
Visiting Professor, Institute of French Studies, New York University, Spring 1998
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, Fall 1990,
Fall 1991.
University of Chicago, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of Europe, Invited
Scholar, April 1990.
French Ministry of Housing, Development and Transportation (Ministère de
l'Equipement, du Logement, de l'Aménagement du Territoire et des Transports -- Plan
Construction et Habitat), 1988
French Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture -- MIRE), 1987
German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, 1984
National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1978-79
Georges Lurcy Fellowship for Doctoral Research in France, 1975-76
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1974-76
Council on European Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, 1974
University of Chicago:
Fuerstenberg Fellowship, 1974-1975
LaVerne Noyes Scholarship, 1972-1974
University of Wisconsin:
Non-Resident Tuition Remission, 1969-1972
LaVerne Noyes Scholarship, 1969-1970
Professional Service
Editorial Boards:
Journal of American Ethnic History, 1997French Politics, Culture and Society, 1999French Historical Studies, 1998-2002
International Review of Social History (Corresponding editor)
Diasporas
Advisory board, Archives nationales (France) renewal project, 2004History Advisory Board, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, 2003Advisory Board, Institut International Erasme-MSH-Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 2006Steering Committee, Global Migration History Project, 2005Co-President, Society for French Historical Studies, 2004, Executive Board, 2003-2005
Co-chair, Migration Network, European Social Science History Conference, 1995-1998
Faculty Advisory Board, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2001-2005
Social Sciences Board, Centre national du livre (National book subsidy commission),
2000-2003
Graduate Program Committee, Histoire et Civilisation, EHESS, 2000Institut français de Washington, Conseil scientifique, 2002Foreign Languages: French (fluent), German (reading), Yiddish (reading)
Teaching Fields: Comparative Migration Studies, Modern France, Western European
Social History
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(with François Weil), eds., Citizenship and Those Who Leave (Urbana: University of
Illinois 2007);
(French edition : Citoyenneté et émigration : Les politiques du départ (Paris : Editions
de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2006).
Repenser les migrations (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002), 138p.
(Greek edition: Savalas, 2004)
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and
New York (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 426p.
Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies
(French edition: Le Seuil, 1998)
(ed.) Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998), 256p.
Et ils peuplèrent l'Amérique: L'odyssée des émigrants (Paris: Gallimard, 1994), 144p.
(Japanese edition, Ed. Sogen-sha: 1997)
The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoque (New York:
Holmes & Meier, 1986), 263p.
(French edition: Fayard, 1985)
(co-author), André Kaspi, ed., La Révolution française et l'émancipation des Juifs de
France (Paris: Hamoré, 1989), 122p.
Articles
“Time and the Study of Assimilation,” Rethinking History, 10:2 (June 2006), 239-258.
“Religion et ethnicité : De la comparaison spatiale et temporelle” in Les Codes de la
Différence, ed. Riva Kastoryano (Paris: Presses de la FNSP, 2005), 67-88.
(with Edward Berenson), “Quand l’oncle Sam ausculte l’Hexagone: Les historiens
américains et l’histoire de la France,” Vingtième siècle 88 (Oct.-Dec. 2005), 121-131.
(with Edward Berenson), “The Society for French Historical Studies: The Early Years,”
French Historical Studies 28:4 (Fall 2005), 579-600.
“From Downtown Tenements to Midtown Lofts: The Shifting Geography of an Urban
Industry,” in A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization and Reform in New York
City’s Garment Industry, ed. Daniel Soyer (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005),
27-43.
"The Politics of Exit: Reversing the Immigration Paradigm," Journal of Modern History
77:2 (June 2005), 263-289.
"Forms of Comparison," in Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National
Perspective, ed. Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor (New York: Routledge, 2004),
41-56.
"Avant les jeans: La Masculinisation de la mode féminine," Revue de la Bibliothèque
nationale de France, no. 17 (2004), 75-78.
"L’île de Monsieur Ellis, du dépôt de munitions au lieu de mémoire," Hommes et
migrations, n°1247, Jan.-Feb. 2004, pp. 40-47.
"Fashion, Flexible Specialization and the Sweatshop: A Historical Problem," in
Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective, ed.
Daniel Bender and Richard A. Greenwald (New York: Routledge, 2003), 37-55.
"Du tailleur juif et d’autres mythes urbains," Panoramiques, no.°65, 4e trimestre, 2003,
pp. 36-41.
"Réflexions d’une outsider," in Pierre Encrevé and Rose-Marie Lagrave, eds., Travailler
avec Bourdieu, Paris, Flammarion, 2003, pp. 175-181.
"Comment on Steven Aschheim ‘Towards the Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual
: The German and French Cases Compared’ », in Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron and Uri
R. Kaufmann, eds., Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered, The French and German
Models, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2003, pp.216-220.
"Concepts historiques des flux migratoires : dualités et fausses découvertes", La revue
internationale et stratégique, n° 50, Summer 2003, 79-84.
"Le quartier ethnique en formation et transformation: histoires, historiographies," in
Lucette Valensi à l'œuvre : Une histoire anthropologique de l'Islam méditerranéen, ed.
François Pouillon, et al. (Paris: Editions Bouchène, 2002), pp. 175-193.
"Gender and Jobs in the Jewish Community: Europe at the Turn of the 20th Century,"
Jewish Social Studies, VIII:2/3 (Winter/Spring 2002), pp. 39-60.
"Terms and Concepts: Then and Now, " in European Science Foundation Workshop
Report, "Immigration and the Construction of Identities in Contemporary Europe,"
Wassenaar, NIAS, 2002, pp. 40-44.
"The Comparative Gaze: Travelers in France before the Era of Mass Tourism," French
Historical Studies 25:3 (Summer 2002), pp.423-440.
"Paris: A Historical View," in Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in
Seven World Cities, ed. Jan Rath (Oxford: Berg, 2002), pp.29-47.
"Politics of Emigration: A New Perspective on Migrations Past and Present," EuropeNYC Consortium Newsletter (March 2002), pp.1-2.
"Religion et ethnicité : De la comparaison spatiale et temporelle," Annales HSS, 57:1
(January-February 2002), pp.127-144.
"Quand le privé devient public. L'Amérique des années 1990," in Séduction et sociétés,
ed. Cécile Dauphin and Arlette Farge (Paris: Seuil, 2001), pp.305-329.
"La mer ou la traversée comme lieu de passage," Les Cahiers du judaïsme, no.7
(Spring-Summer 2000), pp.68-73.
"Le ghetto revisité : Les quartiers juifs américains et leur au-delà," in Les juifs et la ville,
ed. Chantal Bordes-Benayoun, (Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2000),
pp.283-296.
"Introduction" and coordination of special issue, "Les métiers des Juifs," Archives juives,
no.33/2 (2d semester 2000), pp.4-7.
(with Sylvie-Anne Goldberg), "Ouvriers (mouvements)", in Les Juifs et le XXe siècle, ed.
Elie Barnavi and Saul Friedländer (Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 2000), pp.166-175.
"'Le Melting-Pot': Made in America, Produced in France," The Journal of American
History, 86:3 (Dec. 1999), pp.1188-1208.
"Trans-frontières : Pour une analyse des lieux de passage", Socio-anthropologie, no. 6
(2d semester 1999), pp.33-48.
"Les Juifs d'Europe orientale et centrale," in Toute la France: Histoire de l'immigration
en France au XXe siècle, ed. Laurent Gervereau, Pierre Milza and Emile Témime
(Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1998), pp.58-62.
"De l'immigré à l'immigrée ou la conceptualisation du peuplement," in Anne-Marie Sohn
and Françoise Thélamon, eds., L'Histoire sans les femmes est-elle possible? (Paris:
Perrin, 1998), pp.129-136.
"Le langage de la modernisation entre art et industrie: le cas de la confection," in La
France n'est-elle pas douée pour l'industrie ?" ed. Louis Bergeron et Patrice Bourdelas
(Paris: Belin, 1998), pp.79-94.
"Blacks, Jews, and the 'Natural Alliance': Labor Cohabitation and the ILGWU," Jewish
Social Studies 4:1 (Fall 1997), pp.97-104.
"Jewish Labor in Comparative Perspective," in Arbeiterbewegung und Migration, ed.
Bruno Groppo et Christine Schindler (Vienna: ITH, Calenberg Press Garbsen, 1996),
pp.199-216
"Women and Immigrants in the Sweatshops: Categories of Labor Segmentation
Revisited," Comparative Studies in Society and History 38:3 (July 1996), pp.411-33.
"La confection en comparaison: Visions réciproques, Paris - New York, 1880-1980," in
La Révolution des aiguilles: Habiller les Français et les Américains, 19e-20e siècles, ed.
Louis Bergeron (Paris: Editions de l'EHESS, 1996), pp.77-92.
"The Modern Jewish Diaspora: East European Jews in New York, London, and Paris,"
in European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives, ed. Dirk Hoerder and Leslie Page
Moch (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996), pp.263-81.
(reprinted in Todd Endelman, ed., Comparing Jewish Societies, Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1997, pp.113-134)
"Modes comparatifs dans le regard de l'Autre: Récits de voyages chez Chateaubriand
et Arthur Young," in De Russie et d'ailleurs: Mélanges Marc Ferro), ed. Martine Godet
(Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1995), pp.405-416.
"Classe et ethnicité, des catégories caduques de l'histoire sociale?" in Bernard Lepetit,
ed., Les Formes de l'expérience: Une autre histoire sociale (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995),
pp.165-186.
"Avant-propos," in Jeanne Brody, Rue des Rosiers: Une manière d'être juif (Paris:
Autrement, 1995), pp.10-13.
"Art and Industry: the Language of Modernization in the Production of Fashion," French
Historical Studies 18:3 (Spring 1994), 722-48.
"The Comparative Method and Poststructural Structuralism -- New Perspectives for
Migration Studies," Journal of American Ethnic Studies 13:4 (Summer 1994), pp.3-22
(reprinted in: Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, eds., Migration, Migration History,
History, Bern, Peter Lang, 1997, pp.57-72)
"La main-d'oeuvre immigrée et l'industrie du vêtement: Au-delà de la culture et du
capital," Sociologie du Travail, 36:2 (1994), pp:165-184.
"The Making of the Modern Jewish Woman," in A History of Women, vol. 4, ed. by
Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press,
1993), pp.213-227.
(Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Brazilian, Japanese, and Portuguese
editions)
(co-author, with Pierre Milza and Laura Frader), "Paris: City of Light and Shadows," in
Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, ed. Dirk
Hoerder and Horst Rössler (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1993), pp.34-51.
"The Modern Jewish Experience (France) -- Sample Syllabus," in The Modern Jewish
Experience: A Reader's Guide, ed. Jack Wertheimer (New York: New York University
Press, 1993), pp.346-349.
"Les quartiers de l'habillement à la Belle Epoque," Cahiers du CREPIF, n°38 (March
1992), pp.160-174.
"Sweatshop Migrations: The Garment Industry between Home and Shop," in The
Landscape of Modernity, ed. by David Ward and Olivier Zunz (New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 1992), pp.213-232
"L'immigration en France et aux Etats-Unis, Historiographie comparée," Vingtième
siècle, no.29 (January-March 1991), pp.67-82.
"L'histoire comparative et le champ des études migratoires," Annales, E.S.C., no.6
(November-December 1990), pp.1335-1350.
"To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility among Jews in
Paris, 1880-1914," in The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century
Metropolis, ed. by Peter Mandler (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1990), pp.197-226.
"La Révolution dans l'imaginaire des immigrants juifs," in Histoire politique des Juifs de
France, ed. by Pierre Birnbaum (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences
Politiques, 1990), pp.153-162.
"Quand Lénine travaillait à la 'B.N..': Les réfugiés révolutionnaires russes à Paris avant
1917," in Société d'Histoire de la Révolution de 1848 et des Révolutions du XIXe siècle,
ed., Répression et prison politiques en France et en Europe au XIXe siècle (Paris:
Créaphis, 1990), pp.315-327.
"Jewish Migration to France in the 19th and 20th Centuries : Community or
Communities?" Studia Rosenthaliana XXIII:2 (Fall 1989), pp.135-153.
"Quartier et travail : Les immigrés juifs dans le Marais et derrière les machines à
coudre, 1900-1939," in Susanna Magri and Christian Topalov, eds., Villes ouvrières,
1900-1950 (Paris : L'Harmattan, 1989), pp.83-92.
"Les Juifs étrangers à Paris: Diversité d'un groupe minoritaire," in André Kaspi and
Antoine Marès, eds., Le Paris des étrangers (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1989),
pp.106-118.
"Leçons d'octobre - 1929, 1987, La presse française et américaine face aux deux crises
boursières," Esprit (October 1988), pp.91-110
"Juifs et Noirs aux Etats-Unis: La Rupture d'une 'alliance naturelle,'" Annales, E.S.C.
(March-April 1987), no.2, 445-464.
"Philanthropy and Intra-communal Solidarity: Native and Immigrant Jews in Paris, 18801914," Research in Social Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, vol. 1
(1987), pp.21-52.
"Transformation de l'ennemi héréditaire: Le cas du Juif en tant qu'étranger chez
Drumont," in Vers des Sociétés pluriculturelles: études comparatives et situation en
France (Paris: ORSTOM, 1987), pp.143-149.
"Immigration, technique industrielle et insertion sociale: L'histoire sociale de l'industrie
de l'habillement à Paris et à New York, 1880-1980," Jean-Claude Rabier, ed., Travail et
travailleurs dans l'industrie textile (Paris: CNRS-GRECO 13055, 1987), pp.109-117.
"Züruck zur Gemeinschaft Jüdische Studien erleben in Frankreich eine Renaissance,"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 24, 1986, p.33.
"Immigrant Labor in the Garment Industries of New York and Paris: Variations on a
Structure," Comparative Social Research, vol.9 (1986), pp.231-243.
"'Filling the Void': Immigration to France before World War I," in Dirk Hoerder, ed., Labor
Migration in the Atlantic Economies (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp.143-161.
"The Contradictions of Acculturation: Immigrant Oratories and Yiddish Union Sections in
Paris before World War I," in Frances Malino and Bernard Wasserstein, eds., The Jews
in Modern France (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1985), pp.54-77.
"Class and Community: Der Idisher Arbayter," in Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder,
eds., The Press of Labor Migrants in Europe and North America, 1880s to 1930s
(Bremen: Universität Bremen, 1985), pp.89-111.
"Socialist Anti-Semitism, Defense of a Bourgeois Jew and Discovery of the Jewish
Proletariat," International Review of Social History (Fall 1985), pp.374-399.
"Assimilation et antisémitisme: Deux siècles de l'histoire des Juifs en France," Esprit
(October 1983), pp.266-270.
"De l'information à la compréhension: l'Allemagne nazie et l'extermination des Juifs,"
Esprit (September 1982), pp.166-169.
"L'émigration comme émancipation: Les femmes juives d'Europe de l'Est à Paris, 18811914," Pluriel, no.27 (1981), pp.51-59.
"Eléments pour une étude du mouvement ouvrier juif à Paris au début du siècle,"Le
Mouvement social (January-March 1980), pp.51-72
"The Dreyfus Affair and Ruling Class Cohesion," Science and Society XLIII:1 (Spring
1979), pp.29-50.
And over 30 Book Reviews in:
Annales, Journal of Modern History, French Politics and Society, Le mouvement
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