Full Curriculum Vitae - University at Albany

Crossings/Brassages franco-maghrébins, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary
French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, November 2011
Chair and discussant, “Conflict and Reconstruction in Post-War Europe,” the 61st Annual
Meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians at Canisius College,
Buffalo, New York, October 2011
“Out of North Africa: Contested Visions of French Muslim Soldiers during the Great War,”
Department of French and Francophone Studies Table Ronde Speaker Series,
Pennsylvania State University, October 2011
(with David Killingray) “Demobilization in British and French Africa at the end of the First
World War,” The “brutalization thesis” revisited: Demobilization and Remobilization
after the Great War, University College Dublin, Ireland, September 2011
(with Michael A. Osborne) “Medical Modernity, Tropical Medicine, and the Persistence of
Climatic Thinking in France, 1890-1939,” Climats, savoirs et politique, XVIIIe-XXe
siècles, École Normale Supérieur, Paris, France, September 2011
Chair, “Intermediaries of Empire and War? Colonial Soldiers Positioning Themselves within
Military, Colonial, Racial, and Indigenous Ideologies of Order,” American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2011
“Sons of Which Nation? North African Muslims between France and Germany during the Great
War,” 35th Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago,
November 2010
Chair and Commentator, “Origins: Peoples and Nations,” New York State Association of
European Historians Annual Meeting, Siena College, September 2010
Discussant, “Masculinity and National Rebuilding in the Aftermath of Total War,” World
History Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, June 2010
“Anxieties and Realities of Violence: French Colonial Subjects, the Monopoly of Force, and the
Future of Empire,” Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War, 1917-1923,
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, May 2010
“Islam in the French Army and Beyond, 1914-1918,” UCD Research Seminar in War Studies,
University College Dublin, Ireland, May 2010
“Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918” (book talk),
sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society, the Department of History, and
Office of International Programs, Florida Atlantic University, April 2010
“French Military Exoticism: Racial Stereotypes in Theory and Action during the Great War,” at
French Exoticism: A Forum, sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Institute
for the Arts and Humanities, the Pennsylvania State University, March 2010
“Race beyond Black and White: Comparative Visions of Black African Troops in the French
Army, 1914-1918;” Plenary round table, "Black Troops, White Historians? The Past,
Present, and Future of the Historiography of Coloured Troops," War Colours: Black
Soldiers in European Wars, Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD,
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), Amsterdam, January 2010.
“’Have Gun—Will Travel’: North African Soldiers on the Move during the Great War,” Cultures
d’empires? Circulations, échanges et affrontements culturels en situations coloniales et
impériales, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France, October 2009
Chair and Commentator, “Projecting the Nation: Commerce and ‘Claustrophobia’,” New York
State Association of European Historians Annual Meeting, The College at Brockport,
SUNY, October 2009
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