EDUCATION
1993 Doctor of Philosophy, History, University of Iowa
Dissertation: "`There Are No Slaves in France': Law, Culture, and Society in Early Modern France, 1685-1789"
Director: Dr. Sarah Hanley
1988 Master of Arts, History, University of Iowa
1983 Bachelor of Arts, College of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2007- Professor of History, Washington State University, Vancouver
2000-2007 professor with tenure, Washington State University, Vancouver
1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Vancouver
1993-1995 Research Associate, Afro-American Religion: A Documentary History Project, Amherst College, Massachusetts
1993 Visiting Assistant Professor, Marlboro College, Vermont
1992 Conference Recorder, "Indigenous Narrative Tradition and Modern Historiography," Social Science Research Council Transnational and Comparative Project, Chicago, Illinois
1991 Visiting Instructor, University of Iowa
1988-1992 Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa
1991 Grader, University of Iowa
1987-1988 Research Assistant, University of Iowa
1986-1987 Assistant Editor, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton University

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BOOKS
2007 Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World, with co-editor Keila Grinberg ( Universidade do Rio de Janeiro ). Bedford/St. Martin’s
2003 The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, with co-editor Tyler Stovall (University of California, Berkeley). Duke University Press.
1996
2002 (pap.)
"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime. Oxford University Press.
Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by Choice.
Reviewed in: Journal of Modern History; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Slavery and Abolition; Journal of Social History;American Historical Review; Histoire Sociale/Social History (Ottawa); French Politics, Culture and Society; Social History (London),Canadian Journal of History,History, Choice.

 

ARTICLES
2006 “Henry-Christophe” and “ Savannah.” In Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength, and Imagination in Haiti. Ed. Cécile Accilien. Art by Ulrick Jean-Pierre. Caribbean Studies Press.
2006 “Introduction.” La Salle: A Novel by John Vernon. University of Nebraska Press.
2006 “Taking Haiti to the People: History and Fiction of the Haitian Revolution” [Review Essay: Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World and Madison Smartt Bell, The Stone that the Builder Refused] Slavery and Abolition
2005 "Slavery, Freedom, Statehood and the Law in the Atlantic World, 1700-1888." In Democracy and Culture in the Transatlantic World: Third Interdisciplinary Conference, October 2004. The Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Växjö, Sweden: Växjö University.
2005 "Négresse, Mulâtrese, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848"   in Gender and Emancipation in the Atlantic World, ed. Pamela Scully and Diana Paton, Duke University Press.
2005 "Slavery and the Slave Trade" in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
2004 "`A Nation Born to Slavery': Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles" Journal of Social History
2002 "`A Dangerous Zeal': Catholic Missions to Slaves in the French Antilles, 1635-1789" French Historical Studies 25:1
1994 "Race, Slavery, and the Law in Early Modern France," The Historian
1994 "Colonialism's Challenge to French and English Marriage and Citizenship Law: The Case of Mary Anne Raworth" Eighteenth-Century Life
1989 "Reading and Writing Historical Fiction,"Iowa Journal of Literary Studies.
Reprinted by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 2003.

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REVIEWS
2006 Doris Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean for Itinerario.
2004 David Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, for Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. (78:3&4)
2002 Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities, ed. Doris Y. Kadish, in Americas.
2002 Bernard Moitt, Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848, for H-Caribbean. Reprinted in the Montalbán Review, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela
2000 Laurent Dubois, Les Esclaves de la république: L'histoire oubliée de la première émancipation 1789-1794, in The American Historical Review
1999 The English Civil War CD-ROM, in History Computer Review
1999 History Through Art: The Baroque CD-ROM, in History Computer Review
1998 Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808-1856, ed. Elborg Forster, in Americas
1994 Race, Gender, and Rank: Early Modern Ideas of Humanity, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, in History of European Ideas

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WORK IN PROGRESS
Book Free Soil: Slavery, Freedom , Statehood and the Law in the Atlantic World A study of the origins and effects of the concept of "Free Soil" as it emerges and circulates in the legal courts of the Atlantic World.
Articles

"Slave Law in the Atlantic World Before 1804." In World History of Slavery. Vol. 3: 1420-1804, ed. David Eltis and Stanley Engerman (Cambridge University Press).

"Free Upon Higher Ground: Saint-Domingue Slaves' Suits for Freedom in U.S. Courts, 1794-1827." The Haitian Revolution: Viewed 200 Years After: An International Scholarly Conference organized by the John Carter Brown Library. Edited by David Geggus and Norman Fiering. In press. Expected publication: 2006 or 2007.

Portuguese translation of “Free Upon Higher Ground: Saint-Domingue Slaves’ Suits for Freedom in U.S. Courts, 1794-1827.” Estudos Afro-Asiáticos. [ Brazil] Accepted and awaiting translation. Forthcoming, Winter 2006.

“Window, Prism and Mirror: A Pedagogy of Historical Fiction in the Historical Classroom,” in Approaches to Teaching Claire de Duras's Ourika. Edited by Mary Ellen Birkett and Chris Rivers. Approaches to Teaching Series. Joseph Gibaldi, series editor. Modern Language Association of America. Accepted.

Translations
and
Headnotes
A variety of primary documents concerning the religious history of slaves in the French colonies for African American Religion: A Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents, edited by Albert Raboteau and David Wills (forthcoming, Chicago University Press).

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SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Papers, comment, and invited lectures presented before the American Historical Association (1992, 1998, 2002, 2007); Harvard Atlantic Seminar: “Atlantic Legalities”; Stanford University History and Philosophy of Science Lecture Series; “Rethinking Boundaries: Transforming Methods and Approaches to Atlantic History” Conference, New York University; University of Toronto Caribbean Perspectives Lecture Series; The Haitian Revolution after 200 Years, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI; American Society for Legal History; Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, Georgetown Law School, Washington DC; Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio) and Universidade Candido Mendes (UCAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Europe and the Americas, (Guadeloupe); Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition (Yale); Law, Slavery, Emancipation, and Claims-Making (Pittsburgh); Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis; Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies; French Historical Studies; Western Society for French History; French Colonial Historical Society; Northeast and Western Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

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AWARDS AND HONORS
2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
2007-2008 American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship. “Free Soil: Slaves and the Law in the Atlantic World.”
2002 Washington State University Vancouver Internal Research Mini-Grant for project to translate documents for "Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World"
2001 Associate Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University
2000 Washington State University Vancouver Internal Research Mini-Grant for project to research "Carib, African, and European Women in the French Caribbean"
1997 Washington State University Vancouver Research Excellence Award, in recognition of outstanding research by a WSU faculty member
1992-1993 Seashore Fellowship for doctoral students in the humanities, University of Iowa
1992 Stanley Fellowship for Graduate Research Abroad

1992

University of Iowa Student Assembly Research Grant

1990

American Historical Association's Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant Award

1990

University of Iowa Student Assembly Research Grant

1989

Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa

1989

Criticism Award, Iowa Journal of Literary Studies
1987-1991 Teaching-Research Fellowship, University of Iowa

1987

Olin Fellowship for Women, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. (declined)

1983

High Honors, Wesleyan University College of Letters
1982 Honors, Junior Comprehensive Examination, Wesleyan University College of Letters

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TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses
European Expansion Overseas, 1400-1800
European Women's History, 1400-1800
Age of Louis XIV, Europe: 1600-1789
History of European Popular Culture
Writing About History
History in Media
Communities and Society in History
Western Civilization, ancient to the present
Encounter and Incorporation: Europe and the Other
Independent Studies
  Graduate Courses
Comparative History of Slavery
Race in World History
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation in World History

Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams
European, Atlantic and World History

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ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
1998-2006 Director, Honors Program, Washington State University Vancouver
Created and administer the WSUV Honors Program and lecture series. Designed curriculum, admissions criteria, promotional and advising materials, and coordinated articulation with other campuses and institutions. Currently manage budget, arrange for instruction, orient students, supervise honors advisor and support staff.

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OFFICES HELD AND SELECTIVE SERVICE

2007-2010

Leo Gershoy Book Prize Committee, American Historical Association

2006- 2008

President, French Colonial Historical Society

2006-

Editorial Board, French Historical Studies

2005-2006

Vice President, French Colonial Historical Society

2002-

Editorial Board, French Colonial History

2001-

Alf Heggoy Book Prize Committee, French Colonial Historical Society. Chair, 2003-

1999-2000

Member, History Department Advisory Committee, Washington State University

1991-1992

Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty Committee on the Graduate Curriculum, University of Iowa

1990-1991

Graduate Student Representative to Departmental Faculty Meetings, Graduate History Society, University of Iowa

1990

Graduate Colloquia Organizer, Graduate History Society, University of Iowa

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Western Society for French History French Colonial Historical Society

 

 

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