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JENNIFER E. SESSIONS Department
of History 280
Schaeffer Hall Iowa
City, IA 52242 jennifer-sessions@uiowa.edu |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of
Pennsylvania, 2005
Thesis: Making Colonial France: Culture, National Identity
and the Colonization of Algeria, 1830-1851
cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences
Sociales (Paris), 1996-1997
cole Normale Suprieure (Paris), 1996-1997
A.B. in History and Literature,
Harvard University, 1996
TEACHING
Assistant Professor of History,
University of Iowa, 2005 -
Lecturer in Modern European
History, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005
Matre de
Langues, Dpartement dAnglais Scientifique, Universit de Paris-XII
(Val-de-Marne), 2003-2004
Visiting
Instructor, Southern Methodist University-in-Paris, Spring 2004
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS
Reinventing Empire: Colonialism and Political Culture in
Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria
ARTICLES
Ambiguous Glory: The Algerian Conquest and the Politics of
Colonial Commemoration in Post-Revolutionary France, Outre-Mers, Revue
dHistoire 94, no.
350-351 (Summer 2006): 91-102.
LAlgrie devenue franaise: The Naturalization of Non-French
Colonists in French Algeria, 1830-1849, Proceedings of the Western Society
for French History,
30 (2004): 165-177.
BOOK REVIEWS
Elisabeth A. Fraser, Delacroix,
Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France, Cambridge University Press,
2004. CAA.Reviews.
Robert Aldrich, Vestiges of the Colonial
Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories, Palgrave-McMillan, 2005. Itinerario 30 (2006).
GRANTS
AND FELLOWSHIPS
NEH Summer Stipend, 2007
Getty Library Research Grant,
Spring 2007
Old Gold Summer Fellowship,
University of Iowa, 2006
University of Pennsylvania,
Teaching Critical Writing Fellowship (declined), 2004-2005
University of Pennsylvania,
Benjamin Franklin Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2003
Socit des Professeurs Franais et
Francophones dAmrique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon, 2001-2002
French Government Cultural Service,
Bourse Chateaubriand for Dissertation Research, 2000-2001
Fulbright Dissertation Research
Grant, France (declined), 2000-2001
University of Pennsylvania, Ford
Foundation Predissertation Research Grant, Summer 1999
Harvard University, Augustus J.
Tower Fellowship for French Studies, 1996-1997
Harvard University, Ecole Normale
Suprieure Residential Exchange Fellowship, 1996-1997
Radcliffe College Undergraduate
Research Partnership, 1995-1996
Radcliffe College, Ford Foundation
Undergraduate Research Grant, Summer 1995
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
The French Colonial Mind: Mental Maps of Empire and French
Colonial Policy Making, Exeter, UK, April 2007
Society for French Historical Studies, Houston, Texas,
March 2007
Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2006
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Atlanta,
Georgia, March 2006
Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium,
Austin, Texas, October 2005
Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford,
California, March 2005
French Cultural Studies Seminar, University of
Pennsylvania, October 2004
Western Society for French History, Annual Meeting, Newport
Beach, California, October 2003
French Colonial Historical Society, Annual Meeting,
Toulouse, France, May 2003
Western Society for French History, Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, Maryland, October 2002
Society for the Study of French History, Annual Meeting,
Newcastle, UK, April 2002
French Colonial Historical Society, Annual Meeting,
Charleston, South Carolina, May 2000
University of Pennsylvania, African Studies
Scholar-for-a-Day Program with Prof. Johannes Fabian, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, March 1999