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ALYSSA GOLDSTEIN SEPINWALL, Ph.D.

California State University - San Marcos

Department of History

San Marcos, CA 92096

(760) 750-8053 (office) -- (760) 750-3430 (fax)

sepinwal@csusm.edu


EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. in History, 1998; M.A., 1993.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. B.A. in Political Philosophy and Intellectual History, 1991. Phi Beta Kappa.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY – SAN MARCOS, History Department

Associate Professor (8/04 – pres.); Assistant Professor (1/99 – 7/04)


STANFORD UNIVERSITY, History Department

Instructor (1995); Research Assistant (1995); Teaching Assistant (1993-4)



PUBLICATIONS
Books

The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). Reviewed in 26 academic journals and general-interest publications in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and Israel.
L’abbé Grégoire et la Révolution française : les origines de l'universalisme moderne [French translation with new introduction] (Bécherel : Éditions Les Perséides, 2008).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“The Specter of Saint-Domingue: American and French Reactions to the Haitian Revolution,” in The World of the Haitian Revolution, eds. Norman Fiering and David Geggus (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), 317 – 338.
“Henri-Baptiste Grégoire,” in Encyclopedia of Blacks in European Civilization, ed. Eric Martone (Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), I: 253-4.
“Atlantic Revolutions,” in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter Stearns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), I: 284 – 289.
“Defining the Nation: The Abbé Grégoire and the Problem of Diversity in the French Revolution,” in The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, eds. Cheryl A. Koos and Cora Granata (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 1 - 14.
“The Abbé Grégoire and the Atlantic Republic of Letters,” in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 116, pt. 2 (2006; published 2007): 317 – 335; reprinted in Liberty! Égalité! Independencia!: Print Culture, Enlightenment and Revolution in the Americas, 1776 – 1838, eds. David S. Shields and Caroline Sloat (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2007): 97 - 115.
What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing With a Priest Like This? Biography, Jewish Studies, and Gentile Subjects,” in AJS Perspectives (Spring 2007): 30 – 32.

“Napoleon, French Jews, and the Idea of Regeneration,” in CCAR Journal 54 [special issue on Sanhedrin Bicentennial] (Winter 2007), 55 – 76.

“L’abbé Grégoire and the Metz Contest: The View from New Documents,” in Revue des Études Juives 166, nos. 1-2 (January - June 2007), pp. 273 – 288.

“Atlantic Amnesia: French Historians, the Haitian Revolution and the 2004-6 CAPES Exam,” in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 34 (2006): 300-314 [electronic version available at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/images/0642292.0034.019.pdf].


Burn!” and “Julien Raimond,” Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellions, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006), 1: 86-88; 2:411-413.
“François-Marie-Arouet de Voltaire” and “Henri Grégoire” in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005), I: 283-84 and II: 746-48.
“Strategic Friendships: Jewish Intellectuals, the Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution,” in Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From Al-Andalus to the Haskalah, eds. Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004): 189 – 212.
“Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbé Grégoire," in The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, eds. Tyler Stovall and Sue Peabody (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003): 28 – 41.
“La révolution haïtienne et les États-Unis: Étude historiographique,” in 1802. Rétablissement de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises: Aux origines de Haïti, eds. Yves Benot and Marcel Dorigny (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003), 387 – 401.
“Henri Grégoire,” in Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan C. Kors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), II: 160.
“L’héritage de la Révolution française aux États-Unis: le rôle d’Henri Grégoire dans le monde atlantique,” in La France et les Amériques au temps de Jefferson et Miranda, eds. Marcel Dorigny and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Paris: Société des Études Robespierristes/Institut d’histoire de la Révolution française, 2001), 49 - 61.
“Exporting the Revolution: Grégoire, Haiti, and the Colonial Laboratory, 1815 - 1827,” in The Abbé Grégoire and His World [series International Archives of the History of Ideas 169], eds. Jeremy D. Popkin and Richard H. Popkin (Dordrecht, Neth.: Kluwer Academic Press, 2000), 41 – 69.
“Grégoire et Haïti: un héritage compliqué” in Revue française d’histoire d’outre-mer, no. 328 – 329 (2000): 107-128; reprinted in Grégoire et la cause des noirs: combats et projets, eds. Yves Benot and Marcel Dorigny (Paris : Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer /Association pour l'étude de la colonisation européenne, 2000).

“Les paradoxes de la régénération révolutionnaire: le cas de l’abbé Grégoire,” Annales historiques de la Révolution française, no. 321 (juillet/septembre 2000): 69 - 90.


Book Reviews and Review Essays

Review of Philip P. Boucher, France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), in American Historical Review 114, no. 3 (June 2009), 803 - 804.


Review of Lisa Moses Leff, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 2006), in H-France Review (book review venue for French Historical Studies) 7, no. 15 (2007), available at http://h-france.net/vol7reviews/sepinwall3.html.
Review of Jennifer Heuer, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789 – 1830 (Cornell University Press, 2005), in Law and History 25, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 225 - 226.
Review of Jay Berkovitz, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650 – 1860 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), in Jewish History 20, no. 3/4 (Fall 2006): 363 – 368.
Review of Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius (Duke University Press, 2005), in American Historical Review 111, no. 2 (April 2006): 601-2.
“A Secret Relationship? Jews and Blacks in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.” Review of Jonathan Schorsch, Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004), for H-Atlantic (December 2005), available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=153871141411975.
Review of Nigel Aston, Religion and Revolution in France, 1780 – 1804 (Catholic University Press, 2000), in Jewish Quarterly Review 95, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 746 – 750.
Review of Steven Kale, French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability From the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), in Social History 30, no. 3 (August 2005): 416-7.
Review of Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004), H-France Review 5 (Feb. 2005), no. 24, available at http://www.h-france.net/vol5reviews/sepinwall2.html.
Review of Frederic Cople Jaher, The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France (Princeton University Press, 2002), in The Historian 66, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 899-900.
Review Essay on Ilana Y. Zinguer and Sam W. Bloom, eds., L’antisémitisme éclairé. Inclusion et exclusion depuis l’Epoque des Lumières jusqu’à l’affaire Dreyfus / Inclusion and Exclusion: Perspectives on Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair (Brill, 2003), H-France Review 4 (Aug. 2004), no. 80, available at http://h-france.net/vol4reviews/sepinwall.html.
Review Essay on Rita Hermon-Belot, L’abbé Grégoire, la politique et la vérité (Seuil, 2000), in Zion LXVII, no. 1 (2002): 88 – 95.
“French Abolitionism with an American Accent” (commissioned review essay on translation of Henri Grégoire’s De la littérature des nègres), H-France Electronic Network, H-Net, January 1998, available at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3438887056586.

Translations

“America,” “California,” “Canada,” “Colonist,” “West Indies” (2003); “Colony” (2004); “Algonquins” and “Iroquois” (2005). Encyclopedia of Diderot & D’Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, eds. Dena Goodman and Jennifer Popiel (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/).



AWARDS AND HONORS
California State University - San Marcos

Sabbatical Award, 2005-2006


University Professional Development Grant, 2005, 2002
Winner, President’s Award for Innovation in Teaching, 2004-2005
Nominee, President’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity, 2004, 2003
Faculty Center Professional Development Grant, 2004
College of Arts and Sciences - Faculty Development Grant, 2005, 2003, 2002, 1999
Travel Grant, University Global Affairs Committee, 2003
Internationalization Grant, University Global Affairs Committee, 2003, 2002
Nominee, Brakebill Outstanding Professor Award, 2001
Harvard University

Fellow, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World (1500 – 1800), 2005, 2000


California State University - Chancellor’s Office

International Faculty Partnership Seminar – Paris, 2003


Henry Huntington Library

Keck Fellowship, 2002 [declined]


California State Lottery Grant (with Patty Seleski and Vicki Golich)

Film Series on “Other ‘Others’: Multiculturalism in a Global Context,” 1999


University of Pennsylvania - Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Postdoctoral Research Award -- Lucius N. Littauer Fellow, 9/98 – 12/98


Stanford University

Institute for Research on Women and Gender - Dissertation Fellow, 1998


Weter Fellowship, 1997 – 1998
Empires and Cultures Workshop Travel and Study Award, Summer 1996
School of Humanities and Sciences - Graduate Research Opportunities Fund Award, 1995 - 1996
History Department Fellowship, 1992 - 1996
Newhouse Foundation

Grant in Jewish Studies, Summer 1996, Summer 1997


Mellon Foundation

Dissertation Fellowship, 1996 – 1997


Summer Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1995
University of Pennsylvania – School of Arts and Sciences

Nassau Fund Undergraduate Research Award, 1990



COURSES TAUGHT
CSUSM

Survey Courses:

∙ World Civilizations to 1500 (Hist. 201)

∙ World Civilizations since 1500 (Hist. 202)
Upper-Division European History Courses:

∙ Society and Culture in Modern Europe (Hist. 323)

∙ Enlightenment and European Society (Hist. 324)

∙ Revolutionary Europe (Hist. 325)

∙ Jews in French History (reading course, F ’00, Hist. 398)
Upper-Division Transnational/Comparative History Courses:

∙ Comparative French Colonialism, from the Caribbean to Indochina (Hist. 381)

∙ Travel and Contact in the Early Modern World (Hist. 382)

∙ Women and Jewish History (Hist. 383)

∙ Research Seminar on Comparative Global Revolutions (Hist. 460G)
Upper-Division Historical Theory/Methodology Courses:

∙ Historical Methods and Writing (Hist. 301)

∙ Research Seminar in ‘The New Biography’ (Hist. 460)
STANFORD

∙ Writing about Early Modern History, Program in Cultures, Ideas and Values (CIV) (Instructor, Win ’95)

∙ Modern French History, 1750-1994 (teaching assistant, for Prof. Colin Jones, S ’94)

∙ Colonial and Revolutionary American History (teaching assistant, for Prof. Jack Rakove, F ’93)



PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS

Chair/Commentator on Papers by Isabelle Denis, Laura Muñoz and Angela Winand. Session on “Culture and the Memory of Empire.” French Colonial Historical Society, San Francisco, CA, May 29, 2009.


“The Specter of Saint-Domingue: The Haitian Revolution in Nineteenth-Century France." Roundtable on the Haitian Revolution in the Nineteenth Century. Modern Languages Association, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27, 2008 [invited guest of Nineteenth-Century French Literature Division].
“‘Is This Tocqueville or George Bush’? Teaching French Colonialism in Southern California After 9/11.” Plenary Session on Teaching French Colonialism. Western Society for French History, Quebec, Canada, November 7, 2008 [invited speaker].
“Robespierre, Old Regime Feminist? The Academy of Arras’s Debate on Women, 1787.” Society for French Historical Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, April 5, 2008.
“Jews and Modernity: Controversies over Napoleon and the Sanhedrin.” San Diego Rabbinical Association [Reform/Conservative/Reconstruction rabbis in San Diego County and Tijuana, B.C.], San Diego, CA, November 13, 2007 [invited speaker].
“Conversation with Elie Wiesel [via Teleconference].” “Carlsbad Reads Together: Night,” Carlsbad Public Library, Carlsbad, CA, April 19, 2007 [invited speaker].
“Toward Assimilation? The French Revolution, Modernity and the Jews.” Jewish Studies Lecture Series, California State University – Northridge, February 22, 2007 [invited speaker].
“Reconsidering Napoleon and the Sanhedrin: What Political Culture and Colonial Studies Can Teach Us.” Roundtable on “Napoleon, the Jews and the Sanhedrin: Bicentennial Reflections.” Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA, December 19, 2006.
“De nouveaux documents inédits sur l'abbé Grégoire, de la Lorraine à Harlem.” Congrès international sur l’abbé Grégoire, Metz, France (sponsored by Lorraine Conseil régional/Universités de Paris-I, Paris-VIII, Nancy-II and Metz), November 30, 2006 [invited speaker].
“Slavery and Abolition in the French Empire.” Global Enlightenment Seminar, California State University – Long Beach, October 24, 2006 [invited speaker].
“Atlantic Amnesia: French Historians, the Haitian Revolution, and the 2004-6 CAPES Exam.” Western Society for French History, Long Beach, CA, October 21, 2006.
Chair, Panel on “Gens de Couleur and the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic: Race as Social Category and Lived Experience.” Western Society for French History, Long Beach, CA, October 21, 2006.
"The Abbé Grégoire and the Atlantic Republic of Letters." Liberty/Egalité/Independencia: Symposium on Print Culture, Enlightenment, and Revolution in the Americas, 1776-1826. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, June 16, 2006 [invited speaker].
“The Abbé Grégoire and the Politics of Difference in Modern France.” European Studies Faculty Group, University of California – San Diego, March 8, 2006 [invited speaker].
Chair/Participant. Roundtable on “Nationality, Hybridity, and Métissage in the French Colonial Empires.” American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 8, 2006.
“Waiting for the Ships to Come In:  Marie LeMasson-LeGolft and the Paradoxes of Antislavery Sentiment in Prerevolutionary Le Havre.” Western Society for French History, Colorado Springs, CO, October 29, 2005.
“Atlantic Amnesia: Memory and the Haitian Revolution in the United States and France.” Atlantic Soundings: Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA, August 11, 2005.
Commentator on Papers by G. Matthew Adkins, Stephen Auerbach and Jeremy Popkin. Session on “Liberty and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Thought.” Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford, CA, March 18, 2005.
Chair. Panel on “Images of the Colonial Experience in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century France.” Western Society for French History, Lubbock, TX, October 2, 2004.
“The Specter of Saint-Domingue: American and French Reactions to the Haitian Revolution.” John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, conference on “The Haitian Revolution: 200 Years After,” June 20, 2004 [invited speaker]; earlier version given at UC Multi-Campus Research Unit conference on “Bondage, Subjugation and the New Slavery in Comparative Perspective,” University of California – Davis, May 28, 2004 [invited speaker].
“Turning Your Dissertation Into a Book.” Stanford University, History Department, Brown Bag Talk for Graduate Students, May 24, 2004 [invited speaker].
Moderator. Workshop on Teaching Large Classes, Wrap-Up Session. CSUSM, Faculty Center, March 16, 2004.
“Creating a ‘French Nation’”/“A Religious Revolution?” University of California – Irvine, History Department, Seminar on the French Revolution, November 12, 2003 [invited speaker].
“Transcending ‘The Nation,’ or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love World History.” Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, CA, October 31, 2003 [organized panel on “Teaching Beyond the Hexagon”].
Chair. Session on “Constructing the Other in Old Regime France.” Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, CA, October 30, 2003.
Commentator on Papers by Lisa Cody, Elizabeth Colwill and Theresa Ann Smith. Session on “Gender Revolutions.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies – Eleventh Quadrennial Congress on the Enlightenment/Joint Meeting with American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA, August 7, 2003.
“Paradise Across the Ocean? Imagining California, Imagining France.” CSU-MICEFA International Faculty Partnership Seminar, Paris, France, June 24, 2003 [revised version given as Inaugural Faculty Brown Bag Research Colloquium Speaker in Kellogg Library Grand Opening Week, CSUSM, Faculty Center, March 2, 2004].
“Strategic Friendships: Jewish Intellectuals, the Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution.” Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 16, 2002 [revised version given at Western Jewish Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 28, 2004].
“Creating a ‘French Nation’ during the French Revolution.” Mellon French Culture Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, October 17, 2002 [invited speaker].
“Icon of Universalism: Abbé Grégoire’s Life After Death.” San Diego State University, History Department Seminar, September 26, 2002.
“Early US-Haitian Relations: An Overview.” International Conference on “Ruptures et continuités: la politique coloniale française.” Université de Paris-8 [co-sponsors included UNESCO, French Culture Ministry, Radio France Outremer], June 22, 2002 [invited speaker].
“Teaching the Enlightenment in World History.” Western Society for French History, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 9, 2000.
“Building an Atlantic Republican Network: Henri Grégoire, the Americas and the Legacy of the French Revolution.” Harvard University International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, August 11, 2000 [available in Seminar’s Working Paper Series, No. 00012].
“Job and Teaching Strategies for the CSU and Beyond.” Stanford University, History Department, First-Year Seminar, June 5, 2000 [invited speaker; revised versions given 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009].
“The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Colonialism: French Abolitionists in the Directory Years.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, PA, April 12, 2000.
“Christian Voltaires? Religion, Enlightenment, and the Société des Philantropes de Strasbourg.” Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, AZ, March 31, 2000 [co-organized panel on “Enlightenment, Christianity, and Enlightened Christianity”].
“Remaking Humanity: Jews, Blacks, and the French Revolution.” New Perspectives in Judaic Studies public lecture series, Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies, San Diego State University, February 23, 2000 [invited speaker].
“Transatlantic Views on Race and Republicanism: Thomas Jefferson and Henri Grégoire.” Western Society for French History, Pacific Grove, CA, November 1, 1999 [co-organized panel on “Debates on Race and Slavery in France, 1800 – 1848”].
“The First Post-Colonial Leaders and their ‘Only European Friend’: Cultural Strategies in Early Nineteenth-Century Haiti.” World History Association, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 27, 1999 [organized panel on “Cultural Negotiation in the (Post-) Colonial Francophone World: Haiti, Vietnam and North Africa”].
Commentator on Papers by Sheila Donnelly, Soo Chun Lu, and Maggie Pickering. Session on “Women as Participants/Observers in Colonialism.” World History Association, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 26, 1999.
“Blacks, Jews, Women and Dialect Speakers: The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution’s Problem of Difference.” International Conference on “Dialogues with the Past and Present: Jewish Cultural Formation from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.” University of Pennsylvania, April 28, 1999 [invited speaker].
“Multiculturalism in the Eighteenth Century? Blacks, Jews and the French Revolution.” Binghamton University, Judaic Studies/Africana Studies Depts., March 29, 1999 [invited speaker].
“Exporting the Revolution: Grégoire, Haiti and the Colonial Laboratory.” The Johns Hopkins University, History Department Seminar, December 3, 1998 [invited speaker]. Earlier version presented at Clark Library Conference on the Abbé Henri Grégoire, UCLA, February 6, 1997 [invited speaker].
“A Physical, Moral and Political Regeneration: The Abbé Grégoire, the Jews, and the French Revolution.” Western Society for French History, Boston, MA, November 6, 1998.
“Icon of Emancipation: Jewish Intellectuals and the Abbé Grégoire.” Seminar on “Enlightenment, Jews and European Society,” University of Pennsylvania - Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, November 4, 1998.
“‘Regeneration’ and the French Revolution’s Politics of Difference.” International Conference on Imperialism and Identity, Center for African Studies, UC-Berkeley, February 28, 1998.
“Regenerating the Nation, Regenerating its Parts: The Abbé Grégoire and the Constituent Assembly.” Society for French Historical Studies, Lexington, KY, March 21, 1997.
“Jewish ‘Orientalism?’ West End Jewish Identity and the Early Zionist Debate in London, 1890 - 1899.” Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Sacramento, CA, March 25, 1995.

DISCIPLINARY SERVICE
American Historical Association, Local Arrangements Committee, 2010 Annual Meeting – San Diego, 12/08 – pres.
World History Association, Local Arrangements Committee, 2010 Annual Meeting - San Diego, 03/09 – pres.
Society for French Historical Studies, Program Committee, 2010 Annual Meeting – Tempe, AZ, 09/09 – pres.
French Colonial Historical Society, Program Committee, 2010 Annual Meeting – Paris, 10/09 – pres.
Western Society for French History, Millstone/Gargan Prizes Selection Committee (best interdisciplinary paper and best graduate student paper presented at annual conference), 10/07 – pres.; Secretary, 10/03 – 10/06 (international organization with 500 members).
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Clifford Prize Selection Committee (best article in any field of eighteenth-century studies), 09/06 – 02/07.
Western Jewish Studies Association, Program Committee - 2004 Annual Meeting, 9/03 – 3/04.
Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, Southern California Regional Conference Organizer, CSUSM, 9/02 – 4/03 [organized all aspects of a conference involving 50 student presenters and 50 guests from 12 Southern California universities]; Southern California Regional Conference Undergraduate Paper Judge, Point Loma Nazarene University, 2000.
Manuscript Reviewer: peer-reviewer for book and article manuscripts and journal proposals for presses/journals including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, French Historical Studies, French Colonial History, 9/99 – pres.


SELECTED UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
University Global Affairs Committee, Chair, CSUSM, 9/08 – pres.
Assessment Committee, CSUSM – History Department, 9/08 – pres.
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Selection Committee, CSUSM, 9/06 – 12/06.
Chair of the Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences (COAS), CSUSM, 8/04 – 5/05.
Faculty Development Committee, COAS, CSUSM, Co-Chair, 9/03 – 5/04; member 9/03 – 5/05.
Faculty Awards Selection Committee, CSUSM, 9/03 – 5/04.
Faculty Center Advisory Board, CSUSM, 9/02 – 5/04.
Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, Alpha Zeta Chi Chapter (CSUSM), Faculty Advisor, 9/99 – 8/03.
Academic Senate, CSUSM, 1/03 – 6/03.
Library and Computing Advisory Committee, Academic Senate [member and chair of Intellectual Property Subcommittee], CSUSM, 6/00-6/02.
Library and Information Center Building Advisory Committee, CSUSM, 1/02 – 5/02.
Humanities Building Architect Selection Committee, CSUSM, 6/01.
History Club, CSUSM, Faculty Advisor, 9/99 – 6/01.
French Week Organizing Committee, CSUSM [organized at request of President’s Office in honor of visiting delegation from Université de Marne-LaVallée], Spring 2000.
World History Workshop, Stanford University, Co-Coordinator [initiated, organized and obtained funding for a two-session pedagogy workshop on designing World History surveys for advanced graduate students and faculty members, including speakers from Stanford and elsewhere], 2/26/97 and 3/5/97.
History Graduate Student Association, Stanford University, Co-Chair [elected by peers as representative of graduate students to history faculty. Attended faculty meetings; organized monthly student meetings; facilitated student-developed lecture series and workshops; created early electronic-mail network for graduate students which dramatically improved cross-field interactions], 9/94 –6/95.
History Graduate Admissions Committee, Stanford University, Student Reader, Modern European History (2/97) and Early Modern European History (2/95).
Honorary Degrees Committee, University of Pennsylvania, Undergraduate Representative, 9/90 – 5/91.
Nominations and Elections Committee, University of Pennsylvania, Chair of Nominations, 9/88 – 5/89 (member, 9/87 – 5/89).
Committee on Committees, University of Pennsylvania, Undergraduate Representative, 9/88 – 5/89.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SERVICE
San Diego Jewish Film Festival, Festival Committee, 11/03 – pres. (largest film festival in San Diego; 4th largest Jewish film festival in US).
Talks Organized on Campus, Open to Public

• Mr. Michael Bart, Until Our Last Breath (memoir of his parents’ Holocaust experiences), April 29, 2009.

• Mrs. Judith Meisel, Holocaust survivor (Arts & Lectures series), April 11, 2005.

• Panel on Mel Gibson’s The Passion (featuring Profs. Darel Engen, Lawrence Baron, Rebecca Moore, and Yehuda Shabatay), March 11, 2004.

• Mrs. Livia Krancberg, Holocaust survivor, April 29, 2003.

• Dr. Margaret Jacob, “The Importance of History in the World Today,” April 26, 2003.

• Dr. Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, “Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel,” March 12, 2003.

• Mr. Daniel Ashe, “What I Found in Post-World War II Europe,” November 8, 2001.

• Mr. Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor, May 9, 2001.

• Dr. Tyler Stovall, “Race and Immigration in France and Beyond: Politics, Culture and Music,” May 4, 2000.


Public Talks (Community/General Audience) and Radio/Television Interviews

• Film Introduction: “The Woman from Sarajevo,” 19th Annual SD Jewish Film Festival, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 12, 2009.

• Film Introduction: “Not All Were Murderers,” 18th Annual SD Jewish Film Festival, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 13, 2008.

• Interview on 18th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, “Shades of San Diego” Television Program (with host Jessica Chang), Channel 4 San Diego, CA, Jan. 9, 2008.

• “Napoleon and the Jews,” Congregation Tifereth Israel/Rabbi Aaron S. Gold Institute of Adult Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA, Dec. 8, 2007.

• Film Introduction: “Olga” (on Olga Benário Prestes), 17th Annual SD Jewish Film Festival, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 11, 2007.

• Interview on Abbé Grégoire, Radio France Outremer, Program “Paris Sur Mer: La mitre et le bonnet phyrgien” (with host Dominique Roederer), Dec. 8, 2006 [broadcast worldwide to France and its overseas departments and territories].

• Book talk, History Alumni Event, CSUSM, Apr. 26, 2006.

• “A Friend of the Jews in the Catholic Church? The Abbé Grégoire, the Jews and the French Revolution,” Warner Memorial Lecture Series/Agency for Jewish Education, Coronado, CA, Feb. 22, 2006.

• Film Introduction: “Petite Jerusalem.” 16th Annual SD Jewish Film Festival, San Diego, CA, Feb. 12, 2006.

• Interview on Riots in France, KPBS Radio, “These Days With Tom Fudge,” Nov. 10, 2005.

• Moderator/Panelist: “Marjorie Morningstar/Images of Jewish Women in Film,” 15th Annual SD Jewish Film Festival, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 11, 2005.

• Film Introduction/Discussion: “Secret Passage.” 14th Annual SD Jewish Film Festival, La Jolla, CA, Feb. 12, 2004.

• “Friends or Foes? US, British and French Relations,” panelist, CSUSM, Apr. 10, 2003.

• “Service Clubs, the French Enlightenment and Biography:  Some Musings on Henri Grégoire,” Rotary Club, Carlsbad, CA, March 25, 2002.

• “Afghanistan Teach-In,” panelist, CSUSM, Sept. 20, 2001.

• Film Introduction/Discussion : “Cafe Au Lait.” CSUSM Film for Thought Series, California Center for the Arts – Escondido, CA, May 1, 2000.

• “Shaping their Destinies: Jewish Women in Western European History, 1700 - 1900,” Congregation Shir Ami Lecture Series, Carlsbad Public Library, May 7, 2001 [also at Women’s History Month, CSUSM, March 8, 1999; Jewish Children and Family Services, San Francisco, June 9, 1997; and Stanford University Hillel, March 3, 1997].

• “Jewish Emancipation in Europe: A Blessing or a Curse?” Temple Adat Shalom, Poway, CA, Dec. 12, 1999 [also at Cafe by the Bay (a group of San Francisco Holocaust survivors), January 22, 1998].

• “Kosovo Teach-In,” panelist, CSUSM, Apr. 29, 1999.




PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association, Society for French Historical Studies, Western Society for French History, Association for Jewish Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, H-France, H- World, H-Atlantic and H-Judaic Online Discussion Lists.



LANGUAGES
French: reading (fluent); writing (fluent); speaking (fluent)

Hebrew: reading (fair); writing (fair); speaking (good)

German: reading (fair)

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