TEACHING, RESEARCH,
AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Rhodes College
Associate Professor of History,
2007-present
Assistant Professor of History,
2000-2007
Director, Environmental Studies and
Sciences Program, 2010-2012; Spring 2013
Director, Environmental Studies Program,
2009-2010
Associate Director, Environmental
Program, 2008-2009
Columbia
University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris
Fellow-in-Residence, Fall 2007
ACADEMIC HONORS
Recipient, Rhodes College Clarence Day Award
for Outstanding Research, 2011
Named as a “Top Young Historian” by
History News Network, 2007
Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize for Best Article, New York State Association of European Historians, 2002
Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize for Best Article, New York State Association of European Historians, 2002
EDUCATION
University of
Rochester,
Doctor of Philosophy in History, May 1999; Adviser: Alice L. Conklin
Fields:
Modern Europe, Early Modern Europe, European Imperialism and Colonialism
Vanderbilt
University,
Bachelor of Science in History, summa cum
laude, High Honors in History, May 1993
PUBLICATIONS
Books in Print:
Paris Under Water: How the
City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
This book was reviewed in the New
York Times and was selected as a New
York Times Editors’ Choice. It was
also reviewed in the (London) Times
Literary Supplement, London Review of
Books, the Washington Post, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Financial Times, the Memphis Flyer, the (Nashville) City Paper, and was discussed in
articles in the Guardian, the
(Memphis) Commercial Appeal, Folha de Sao Paulo, Chapter16.org (TN
Humanities Council), and Bookpage.com, among others.
A website, www.ParisUnderWater.com, accompanies and extends this book by providing additional imagery of the 1910 flood.
Making Jazz
French: Music and Modern Life in
Interwar Paris (Duke University
Press, 2003).
- This book is now in its second printing and was a finalist for an award for Best Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2004.
- Portions of Making Jazz French have been reprinted in:
- Carl J. Guarneri, ed., America Compared: American History in International Perspective, 2nd edition (2005).
- Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities (March/April, 2005).
Music and
History: Bridging the Disciplines, contributor and
co-editor with Stanley C. Pelkey (University Press of Mississippi, 2005).
Books/Journal
Special Issues in Preparation and Forthcoming:
Special issue of
French Historical Studies on “Disaster
in French History,” co-editor with Elinor Accampo (forthcoming 2013).
Leona Rittner, Scott Haine, and Jeffrey H. Jackson, eds., The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy, and Vienna (under contract with Ashgate Press).
The Underground Reader: Sources in the Trans-Atlantic Counterculture, co-editor with Robert Francis Saxe (under contract with Berghahn Books).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
in Print and Forthcoming:
“Narratives of
Disaster and Recovery in the 1910 Paris Flood,” in Conference Proceedings of Images
of Disaster Conference (forthcoming, Schnell + Steiner, 2013).
“Envisioning Disaster in the 1910 Paris
Flood,” Journal of Urban History
(March 2011).
“Solidarism in
the City Streets: La Société protectrice contre les excès de l’automobilisme and the
Problem of Traffic in Early Twentieth Century Paris,” French Cultural Studies 20 (Fall
2009).
“Artistic
Community and Urban Development in 1920s Montmartre,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 24 (Summer 2006).
“Making Jazz
French: The Reception of Jazz Music in
Paris, 1927-1934,” French Historical Studies
25 (Winter 2002). This article won the 2002 Charles R. Bailey
Memorial Prize for Best Article from the New York State Association of European
Historians. It is also reprinted in Tony
Whyton, ed., Jazz (The Library of
Essays on Popular Music series), (Surrey UK:
Ashgate, 2011).
“Music-Halls and
the Assimilation of Jazz in 1920s Paris,” Journal
of Popular Culture 32 (Fall 2000).
“Making
Enemies: Jazz in Interwar Paris,” French Cultural Studies 10 (June 1999).
Additional
Articles in Print and Forthcoming:
“Jazz, Race, and Literary Communities in 1920s
Parisian Cafés,” in Leona Rittner, Scott Haine, and Jeffrey H. Jackson, eds., The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris,
Italy, and Vienna (volume in preparation).
“The Power of
Community: Parisians Save Their City in
the 1910 Flood,” The Water Leader (April
2012): 6-7.
“Common Purpose Always Unites People After
Disaster,” The Tennessean, May 17,
2010.
“Public Spirit
Revives Great Cities,” New Orleans
Times-Picayune, August 29, 2009 (co-authored with Robert Edgecombe).
“Bandy Center
Books Chronicle Paris Flood,” Acorn
Chronicle (Fall 2008).
“Making Jazz
French: How Parisians Came to Appreciate
the Sounds of America’s Music,” Rhodes: The Magazine of Rhodes College (Fall
2004).
Articles in Preparation:
“John Sloan,
Marcel Duchamp, and Trans-Atlantic Bohemianism,” with Ellen K. Daugherty (for American Art).
Book and Film Reviews:
Review of Keith
Reader, The Place de la Bastille:
The Story of a Quartier (forthcoming in French Politics, Culture, and Society).
Review of Esi
Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues for Fiction and Film for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin, October 2012. http://h-france.net/fffh/the-buzz/vichy-france-from-the-margins-half-blood-blues/
Review of
Jennifer Anne Boittin, Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and
Feminism in Interwar France, in American
Historical Review, December 2011.
Review of Midnight in Paris (dir. Woody Allen, 2010)
for Fiction and Film for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin, November 2011, http://www.historianhouse.us/FlimFiction/the-buzz-issue2-2.
Review of Jann Pasler, Composing the Citizen: Music and
Public Utility in Third Republic France, H-France Forum, Society for French Historical Studies, Spring 2010.
Review of Peter
Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third
Reich in Shofar 28, Spring 2010.
Review of Dudley
Andrew and Steven Ungar, Popular Front
Paris and the Poetics of Culture in Other
Voices 4 (March 2010) (http://www.othervoices.org/4.1/jjackson/)
Review of
Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan
Film Culture in American Historical
Review, October 2008.
Review of
Richard Ivan Jobs, Riding the New
Wave: Youth and the Regeneration of
France After the Second World War in Journal
of Social History, Summer 2008.
Review of Mary
E. Davis, Erik Satie in Modernism/Modernity, April 2008.
Review of Laura
Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, Why
France?: American Historians Reflect on
an Enduring Fascination in Modern and
Contemporary France, November 2007.
Review of Sally
Debra Charnow, Theatre, Politics, and
Markets in Fin-de-Siècle France: Staging
Modernity for H-France Listserve (Society for French Historical Studies),
June 2006.
Review of
Michael Dregni, Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend in French Politics, Culture, and Society 23,
Winter 2005.
Review of E.
Taylor Atkins, ed., Jazz Planet in Canadian Journal of History 39, August
2004.
“Jazz,
Historians, and National Identity in Europe,” Book Review of Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a
Divided Germany, in Current Musicology
71-73, Spring 2001-Spring 2002.
“African-Americans
and the French Imagination,” Book Review Essay in Modern and Contemporary France, August 2000.
Book Reviews for
Choice
Review of Leif
Jerram, Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth
Century (forthcoming in Choice).
Review of Dewar
MacLeod, Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California, Choice, August 2011.
Review of Joel
E. Vessels, Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic in Choice, February 2011.
Review of Rosemary
Wakeman, The Heroic City: Paris,
1945-1958, in Choice, September 2010.
Review of
Frederic Spotts, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived
the Nazi Occupation in Choice,
January 2010.
Review of
Richard Dennis, Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan
Space, 1840-1930,in Choice, May
2009.
Review of Hilary
Kaiser, French War Brides in
America: An Oral History in Choice, September 2008.
Review of Jack
Hayward, Fragmented France: Two Centuries of Disputed Identity in Choice, April 2008.
CONFERENCES AND
WORKSHOPS
Participant,
Roundtable Discussion, “The Challenge of Studying Music and History Together,”
American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014 (under
consideration).
Commentator, “The
History of Disasters: New Global Approaches,” American Historical Association,
Washington, DC, January 2014 (under consideration).
Participant,
Roundtable Discussion, “For Whom Do We Write?” Society for French Historical
Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 2013.
Organizer and
Chair, Roundtable Discussion, “Environmental History in France,” Society for
French Historical Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2012.
“Narratives of
Destruction and Recovery in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Images of Disaster
Conference, University of Heidelberg (Germany), March 2012.
Participant,
“Intellectuals Abroad: Cross-National
Influences of Dispersal During World War II and Beyond,” Paper Titled: “Django on the Spiral,” Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation’s Cluster Grant for Faculty Workshop and Career Enhancement (FCE),
May 2011.
“Paris Under
Water: How the City of Light Survived the
Great Flood of 1910,” Poster presentation, American
Historical Association, January 2010.
“Contested
Memories of the Commune and the Dreyfus Affair During the 1910 Paris Flood,” Western Society for French History
Conference, Boulder, CO, October 2009.
“Walking in the
Flooded City: The Limits of Flânerie
in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Society for
French Historical Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 2009.
“Photographing
Modernity in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Society
for French Historical Studies Conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April
2008.
“Picturing Paris
Under Water: The Visual Culture of the
1910 Paris Flood,” Society for the Anthropology
of North America Conference, New
Orleans, LA, April 2007.
“Regulating
Movement in the Modern City: Parisian Traffic
in the Early 1900s,” Southern Historical
Association Conference, Memphis, TN, November 2004.
Comment on
panel, “Double Crossings: National
Identity and the French Reception of Music, Psychoanalysis, and Art.” American Historical Association Conference,
Washington, DC, January 2004.
“Memories of
Montmartre in a Changing City, 1920-1925.” Cultural
Memory in France: Margins and Centers,
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL, October, 2003.
“Artists,
Community, and City Life in 1920s Paris.” Tennessee
Conference of Historians, Nashville, TN, September 2003.
“Translating
Jazz Into French: Musicians, Labor, and
the Emerging Jazz Community in 1930s Paris.”
Society for French Historical
Studies Conference, Washington DC, March 1999.
“Jazz and
Nostalgia: Making a French Jazz Culture,
1918-1940.” Western Society for French History Conference, Boston, MA, November
1998.
“Making
Enemies: Taxes, Labor, and the
Marketplace for Jazz in France, 1918-1940.”
New York State Association of
European Historians Conference, Geneseo, NY, September 1998.
“Jazz as a World
Music.” Propaganda and Empire in France Conference, Francophone Area Studies
Research Group, University of Portsmouth, London, UK, September 1997.
“‘Real’ Jazz,
Blackness, and the Culture of the Machine:
Hugues Panassié and the Search for Interwar French Identity.” New
York State Association of European Historians Conference, West Point, NY,
September 1996.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk for Alliance Française de Memphis, Memphis, TN, October
2012.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk for Bankwitz Lecture Series, Trinity College, Hartford,
CT, October 2012.
“Photographic
Narratives of Destruction and Recovery in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Rachel Carson
Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, February 2012.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, Hong Kong University, October 2011.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, Lingnan University (Hong Kong), October 2011.
Panelist, “A
Conversation: The Paris Cultural Scene,
1910-1920,” Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (with Jeffrey H.
Jackson, Alex Ross, Joan Acocella, Michael Taylor, and Alasdair Nichol), April
2011.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, Alliance Française, Jackson MS, March 2011.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November
2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, November 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk and Participant in “Authors in the Round Dinner,” Southern
Festival of Books, Nashville, TN, October 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, American University, Washington, DC, October 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk for Neilly Lecture Series, University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY, September 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, April 8, 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill,
NC, March 30, 2010.
Invited speaker,
Alliance Française Gala, New Orleans, LA, March 27, 2010.
Invited speaker,
The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA, March 27, 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, Institute for French Studies/La Maison Française, New York
University, February 3, 2010.
Invited talk and
Panel discussion participant for exhibition on 1910 flood, Bibliothèque Historique
de la Ville de Paris, January 29, 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk, American University of Paris, January 28, 2010.
“Paris Under
Water: Seeing the Flood of 1910,”
Invited talk, University College London, January 27, 2010.
“Paris Under
Water,” Invited talk and roundtable discussion, Vanderbilt University, January
21, 2010.
“Paris Under
Water: Visual Narratives of the 1910
Flood,” Presentation to the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid
Hall, Paris, October 2007.
Invited talk on Making Jazz French at American
University in Paris, November 2007.
Two invited
presentations at Wesleyan College, Macon, GA on Making Jazz French, November 2003.
“Making Jazz
French.” Invited Talk, Department of
History Seminar, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, October 2000.
TEACHING AT
RHODES COLLEGE
Classroom
Instruction:
Nature, History, and Disaster
France, 1870-1918
First Year Writing Seminar: Coffeehouses, Cafés, and Public Spaces
Nineteenth Century Europe
Twentieth
Century Europe
Revolutions
1968/1989 in Europe
Fascist
Europe
Europe
Since 1945
Paris: Myth and Reality (co-taught with a member of
French department)
The
French Revolution
Bohemians,
Beats, and Hippies: Culture and
Counterculture in Europe and the US
Americans
in Paris
Art
and Politics Between the Wars
The Historian’s Craft:
Methods and Approaches in the Study of History
History Senior Seminar
Environmental Studies and Sciences
Senior Seminar
Search
for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion
A “great books” course examining the Western intellectual and
religious tradition
Individual Mentoring:
Student
Advising (First-year students and History majors)
Director of
Honors Research project situating the work of Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs in
the context of urban planning and development in post-WWII America
Director of
Honors Research project on French Colonialism in North Africa
Director of an
Independent Study on Comparative Urban History
Director of an
Independent Study on the French Revolution
Director of an
Independent Study on Mass Culture in Transatlantic Perspective
Director of an Independent
Study on the English Reformation and the Anglican Communion
Director of an
Independent Study on French Colonialism
Director of six
Research Assistantships for History majors
Director of
Research Assistantship for an Art History major
Tutorial version
of “Paris: Myth and Reality”
Second reader
for Senior Thesis in Theatre department on Italian mafia in theater history
ADDITIONAL
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Editorial and Peer-Review
Founding
Co-Editor, Music in Society and Culture Series for Boydell and Brewer Press
Books in this Series:
• Barbara
Eichner, History in Mighty Sounds: Musical Constructions of German National
Identity (2012)
External
Reviewer for Ph.D. dissertation, Department of French, University of Newcastle,
Australia, 2012
External
Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion Review, University of Indiana-Northwest
External
Reviewer for Third Year Review, Rochester Institute of Technology
Peer reviewer
for Brooke Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the
World Wars for Oxford University Press
Peer
reviewer for Charles Rearick, Paris
Dream, Paris Memories: The City and Its
Mystique for Stanford University Press
Peer reviewer
for Twentieth Century Europe: Sources and Perspectives from History for
Longman Publishers
Peer reviewer
for Bonnie Smith, Europe in the
Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present for Bedford/St. Martin’s Press
Peer reviewer of
book proposal and manuscript, Tom Perchard, Jazz
After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar
France
for University of Michigan Press
Peer reviewer
for essay in Atlantic Studies special issue on “New Currents in
French and Francophone Atlantic Studies”
Peer reviewer
for essay in French Historical Studies
special issue on “Mobility in French History”
Peer reviewer
for essay in Journal of the Royal Music
Association
Peer reviewer
for essays in French Politics, Culture,
and Society
External
reviewer for grant submitted to Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada
Production
Editor, H-France Book Reviews (2008-2010)
Regular Book
Reviewer for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Consulting and Task Forces
Outcomes Based
Approaches Consultant, Department of History and Division of Arts, Lingnan
University, Hong Kong, October 2011.
Member of Marcus
Orr Center for the Humanities, Program Advisory Board, University of Memphis,
2010-present.
Consultant for
documentary film “Harlem in Montmartre:
A Paris Jazz Story” co-produced by WNET-TV New York for PBS series Great Performances (this program also
aired on Arte in France).
Consultant for
Center for Educational Policy Research Center to develop assessment tool for AP
courses
Member of Global
Partners Project, Regional Alliance Task Force for France, Associated Colleges
of the South (2004-2007).
Media
Guest on
“Counterpoint,” WUMR Radio discussing Paris
Under Water.
Guest on “The
Leonard Lopate Show,” WNYC Radio discussing Paris
Under Water.
Guest on
“Costing the Earth,” BBC4 Radio discussing Paris
Under Water.
Guest on “Book
Talk,” WYPL Radio, discussing Paris Under
Water.
On-camera
interview by WREG-TV, Memphis and WWL-TV, New Orleans discussing Paris Under Water.
On-camera
interview for documentary film “Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story” co-produced by WNET-TV
New York for PBS series Great
Performances (this program also aired on Arte in France).
Guest on WCPN-FM
in Cleveland, OH for “Jazz Tracks” discussing connections between France and
the US in jazz.
GRANTS
Spence Wilson
International Travel Grant, Rhodes
College ($2500), 2007
Faculty
Development Endowment Grants ($5000), Rhodes College, Summer 2002, Summer 2004,
Summer 2006, Summer 2009
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($5000), 2000
Grant from the
Sinfonia Foundation ($900), 2000
Bernadotte
E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association ($2000), 1999
Department
Fellowship, Department of History, University of Rochester, 1994-1998
ADDITIONAL PRIZES
AND HONORS
Included
in Contemporary Authors, 2010.
Dexter
Perkins Prize, Department of History, University of Rochester, 1998
Sanford Elwitt
Memorial Prize, Department of History, University of Rochester, 1997
Salamone
Prize, Department of History, University of Rochester, 1996
COLLEGE-WIDE AND
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Departmental Search Committees
One Year Position in Atlantic World
History (2010-2011; search committee chair)
One Year Position in Latin American
History (2008-09)
Mellon Foundation Environmental Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellow (2008)
Tenure Track Position in Islamic World
(Middle East/Africa) History (2006-07)
One Year Position in Non-US History (2006)
Tenure Track Position in Twentieth Century
US History (2004-05)
One Year Position in Latin American
History (2002-03)
Hearst Minority Fellow (2001)
College-Wide Service
Student Advising (2001-present)
Tenure and
Promotion Committee (2011-2012)
Search Committee
Member, Spence Wilson Chair in Interdisciplinary Humanities (2008-09;
2010-2011)
Search Committee
Member, Department of Anthropology/Sociology (Environmental Studies)
(2010-2011)
Search Committee Member, Department of
Economics (Environmental Studies) (2010-2011)
Member of Communities in Conversation
Programming Advisory Committee (2012-present)
Member of Foundations Curriculum Committee
(2008-2011; chair 2009-10)
Member of Faculty Development Committee
(2002-2005)
Liaison to Watson Foundation Fellowship
(2009-10)
Search Committee
for French section of Department of Modern Languages and Literature (2008-09)
Member of Bellingrath Scholarship
Committee (2006)
Faculty Liaison to Search Committee for
Assistant Director of Career Services (2004)
Departmental Service
Phi Alpha Theta adviser (2004-2007;
2008-2009)
Editor, History Department Newsletter
(2001-2005)
