Full Curriculum Vitae - University at Albany

“Out of North Africa: Contested Visions of Islam in France and Beyond during the Great War,”
France and the Arab World, 1600-Present —An Interdisciplinary Research Workshop,
Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2009
“Under Strange Moons: Muslim Soldiers and Contested Meanings of Islam from French North
Africa to the Western Front, Germany, and Beyond,” From the trenches to Versailles:
war and memory (1914-1919), Institute of Contemporary History, New University of
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009
“A North African Anabasis: Islam, Captivity, and Contested Identities during the First World
War,” French Colonial Historical Society Annual Conference, San Francisco, May 2009
“Understanding Race and Blackness in France during the First World War: Historical and
Comparative Contexts,” Constructing Black France: A Transatlantic Dialogue,
International Symposium, Columbia University/Barnard College, New York City, April
2009
“Islam in the French Army during the Great War,” Friday Evening Talks Series, New York
Military Affairs Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, February 2009
“Fear and Loathing in France during the Great War,” War and Sexuality in the 20 th Century,
Center for European Conflict and Identity History, Syddansk Universitet, Esbjerg,
Denmark, June 2006
“Race and Empire in French Posters of the Great War,” The First World War and Popular
Culture, Newcastle, UK, April 2006
“Race and Sex in France during the Great War: Colonial Soldiers, European Women, and
Imperial Rule,” Society for French Historical Studies, 51 st Annual Meeting, Stanford
University, March 2005
“Images of Race and Empire in France during the First World War,” Board of Trustees Annual
Meeting, Bridgewater College, November 2004
“Colonial Soldiers, European Women, and the Future of French Imperialism, 1914-1918,” New
York State Association of European Historians Annual Meeting, October 2004
Chair and Discussant, “Individuals and Modern Society,” Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities Conference: Modernism, 1880-1960, Bridgewater College, April 2004
“Racial and Military Hierarchies: officiers indigènes in the French Army during and after the
Great War,” 31st Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, November
2003
“The Language of Race in the French Army during the Great War,” C.R. Bailey Alumni Lecture,
State University of New York at Geneseo, April 2003
“Race and Sex in France during the Great War,” American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, January 2002
“Between Subjects and Citizens: Colonial Subjects, Race, and Nationality in the French Army
during the Great War,” Race and Nation, Identity and Power: Ethnic Systems Around the
World conference, Santa Barbara, March 2002
Fellowships and Grants
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Learn German in Germany Grant, 2011
Faculty Research Assistance Program (FRAP A), University at Albany, 2008
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2004
Faculty Development Grant, Bridgewater College, 2004
Travel Grant/Site Visit, BCA Study Abroad Center, Marburg, Germany, July 2004
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