1 Christina Frances Mobley, PhD - Corcoran Department of History

Christina Frances Mobley, PhD
Nau Hall 383, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, 22904
[email protected]
919-260-8974
EMPLOYMENT
2015University of Virginia, Assistant Professor of History
2014
University of Nebraska-Omaha, Adjunct Instructor of History
EDUCATION
2010-2015
Duke University, Ph.D. in History, April 2015
Durham, N.C.
Title: The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
Laurent Dubois (Chair), Bruce Hall, Jan Ewald, Lisa Lindsay (UNC Chapel Hill), James
Sweet (University of Wisconsin)
2010
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, M.A. in History
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Thesis: Make a Common Cause: Negotiation and Failure to Compromise in the Haitian
Revolution, 1791
2007
McGill University, Bachelor of Arts in Honours History
Montréal, Q.C.
2006
Université Paul Valéry, Diplôme d’Études Françaises (2é)
Montpellier, France
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015-2016
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Declined)
2012-2013
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Fulbright Fellowship, EHESS, France
James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship, Duke University
2012
Mellon Summer Travel Award, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University Graduate School
2011
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association
Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association
Mellon Summer Travel Award, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2010-2011
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Haitian Kreyòl
2010-2015
History Department Doctoral Fellowship, Duke University
2010
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History Research Award
2009
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History Research Award
2008-2013
History Department Doctoral Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill
PUBLICATIONS
• Review of Art of Conversion: Christian and Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, by Cécile
Fromont, William and Mary Quarterly (in preparation).
• “‘Kongo, Help Me Cry’: Central African Cultural Practices in Saint Domingue” Revue d’histoire de
l’Amérique française (Under Consideration).
• “’I’m a Kongo Creole’: Central Africans, the Haitian Revolution, and the Creolization” (in progress).
• “The Atlantic History of the Jagas: the Kingdom of Kongo to David Brooks” (Manuscript).
• “Historical Linguistics for Historians: An Introduction” (Manuscript).
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America, “Haiti,” “Haiti, U.S. Occupation of
(1915-1934),” "Charlamagne Péraulte," "Battle of Fort Rivière," and "Josephus Daniels."
• “A War Within The War,” Digital Library of the Caribbean.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015
University of Virginia, Department of History
Charlottesville, VA
HIAF 2001: Early African History until the Era of the Slave Trade
HIAF 1501: Introductory Seminar in African History
2014
University of Nebraska-Omaha, Department of History
Omaha, N.E.
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2011
2010
2009
2008
Instructor of Record, HIST2990: People and Issues in History: History of the Slave Trade
Duke University, Department of History
Durham, N.C.
T.A., HIST299S/FRN252S: History of Haiti, Dr. Laurent Dubois
U.N.C. Chapel Hill, Department of History
Chapel Hill, N.C.
T.A., HIST128: American History since 1865, Dr. Joseph Glatthaar
Apprentice T.A., HIST367: North Carolina History since 1865, Dr. Jim Leloudis
Apprentice T.A., HIST125: Social History of Popular Music, Dr. Fitzhugh Brundage
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
• “The French Slave Trade the Kongolese Atlantic, and the Haitian Revolution,” Emerging Histories of
the Early Modern French Atlantic, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 16-18
October 2015
• “Roundtable: Unsilencing Hispaniola's Histories: Precedents and Possibilities,” Oral History
Association Annual Meeting, October 2014
• “’Christian, not Christian anymore’: Central Africans, Haitian Vodou, and the Haitian Revolution,
1791-1804”, Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference, May 2014
• “‘Kongo, ede m kriye’: les ‘Kongos’ dans la Révolution Haïtienne,” Groupe d'histoire de l'Atlantique
français, atelier : Les résistances à l’esclavage dans le monde atlantique français à l’ère des
Révolutions (1750-1850), Montréal, Canada 3-4 Mai, 2013.
• “Histoire de l’Atlantique Congolais: les Congolais dans la Révolution Haïtienne,” Atelier Doctorant,
Centre International de Recherches sur les esclavages (CIRESC), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 1 March 2013.
• “The Congolese Atlantic: New Perspectives on Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution,” New
Perspectives on War and Slavery Workshop, American Historical Association, January 3-6, 2013
• “The Congolese Atlantic: the Origins of Haitian Revolutionaries” Stanford African Studies Forum,
Stanford University, 29 October 2011
• “Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution,” Borders and Maps Workshop, Franklin Humanities
Institute, Duke University, 19 October, 2011
INVITED PRESENTATIONS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
• Public Lecture, “Le cinquantenaire d’un rêve: Martin Luther King, Jr et l’égalité raciale aux EtatsUnis,” American Corner, Université Protestant au Congo, Kinshasa, D.R.C. August 2013
• T.V. Interview, “Martin Luther King, Jr. 50 ans après,” B One Studios, Kinshasa, D.R.C., August 2013
• Fellowship Selection Committee, Fulbright FLTA 2012-2013, Franco-American Commission, France
• Consulting Historian, “The Armée Indigène,” Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn, New York
Historical Society, November 2011- May 2012
• “Africa and the Slave Trade,” World History From 1650 to Present, Loyola University, 2012
• “Slave Resistance in the Americas,” World History from 1650 to Present, Loyola University, 2012
• “The Atlantic Slave Trade and African States,” Teaching and Pedagogy, Duke University, 2011
RESEARCH ASSISTANCESHIPS
2014-2015
Professor Ed Balleisen, Duke University
Durham, N.C.
2013-2014
Professor Bruce Hall, Duke University
Durham, N.C.
2011
Professor Greg Grandin, New York University
Aix-en-Provence, France,
Professor Deborah Jenson, Duke University
Paris, France
2010-12
Professor John Wood Sweet, UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, N.C.
2011
Virtual Seminar in Haiti, Haiti Lab, Duke University
Durham, N.C.
2010
Edouard Duval Carrié Research Project, Haiti Lab, Duke University
2009
Southern Oral History Program, UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, N.C.
2009
Professor Fitzhugh Brundage, UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, N.C.
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LANGUAGES & METHODOLOGIES
French (fluent), Haitian Kreyòl (advanced), Lingala (intermediate), Kiyombe (elementary)
Archival Research, Bantu Historical Linguistics, Oral History, Ethnography
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