THOMASW.DODMAN
DepartmentofHistory
BostonCollege
StokesHall
140CommonwealthAv.,ChestnutHill,MA02467
dodmant@bc.edu
617-552-1576
ACADEMICAPPOINTMENTS
CURRENT
AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistory,BostonCollege,2012-
Affiliatescholar,MindadeGunzburgCenterforEuropeanStudies,HarvardUniversity,2014-
Associateeditor,EmotionReview,2014-
PAST
AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistory&ArtHistory,GeorgeMasonUniversity,2011-2012
Chargédecours,CollègeUniversitaire,Sciences-PoParis,2010-2011
Lecturer,SocialSciencesCollegiateDivision,HumanRightsProgram,andInternationalStudies
Program,UniversityofChicagoandUniversityofChicagoCenterinParis,2008-2011
Professeurd’HistoireetGéographie,InternationalBaccalaureateandFrenchBaccalaureate,École
ActiveBilingueJeannineManuel,Paris,2002-2003&2005-2007
EDUCATION
Ph.D.inHistory,withdistinction,UniversityofChicago,2011
M.A.inHistory,withdistinction,UniversityCollege,London,UniversityofLondon,2002
B.A.inInternationalHistoricalStudies,FirstClassHonors,UniversityCollege,London,Universityof
London,2001(yearabroadattheUniversitéParisIV-Sorbonne)
PUBLICATIONS
INPROGRESS
WhatNostalgiaWas:War,Empire,andtheTimeofaDeadlyEmotion,1688-1884,acceptedfor
publicationintheStudiesinthePracticesofMeaningserieswithTheUniversityofChicago
Press(expectedearly2017)
HistoiredelaGuerre,XIXe-XXesiècles,coeditedwithBrunoCabanes,HervéMazurel,andGene
Tempest,undercontractwiththeEditionsduSeuil(expectedend2017).Twoarticles
authored:“LestraumatismesdeguerredushellshockauPTSD,”and“Lesémotionsdusoldat”
“Delanostalgieàl’utopieenAlgériefrançaiseauXIXesiècle,”acceptedforpublicationin
Conserveriesmémorielles:revuetransdisciplinairedejeuneschercheurs(forthcoming)
“WhenEmilewenttowar:becomingacitizen-soldier,”writinginprogress
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REFEREEDARTICLES&BOOKCHAPTERS
“1814andthemelancholyofwar,”JournalofMilitaryHistory80:1(January2016)
“Frommaldupaystol’amourdupays.Fatalnostalgiaandthelocalinnineteenth-centuryFrance,”in
PatrickYoungandPhilWalden,eds.,PlaceandLocalityinModernFrance(London:
BloomsburyAcademic,2014)
“Tropiquesnostalgiques:FatalhomesicknessinFrenchAlgeria,”HistoricalReflections/Reflexions
historiques39:3(Winter2013)
“Ennuietfatiguependantlacolonisationdel’Algérie,”inPascaleGoetschel,ChristopheGranger,
NathalieRichard,andSylvainVenayre,eds.,L’ennui.Histoired’unétatd’âme,XIXe-XXesiècles
(Paris:PublicationsdelaSorbonne,2012)
“Unpayspourlacolonie:mourirdenostalgieenAlgériefrançaise,1830-1880,”Annales.Histoire,
SciencesSociales66:3(July2011)
BOOKREVIEWS
Dix-HuitièmeSiècle(n°47,2015):RacconterlaMaladie,H-France(inprogress)
JanPlamper,TheHistoryofEmotions:AnIntroduction(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2015),
JournalofModernHistory(completed,forthcoming2016)
UteFrevet,et.al.,LearningHowtoFeel:Children’sLiteratureandEmotionalSocialization,1870-1970
(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2014),JournalofSocialHistory49:1(Fall2015)
RebeccaRogers,AFrenchwoman’sImperialStory:MadameLuceinNineteenth-CenturyAlgeria
(Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress,2013),CanadianJournalofHistory49:1(Spring-Summer
2014)
MirandaSpieler,EmpireandUnderworld.CaptivityinFrenchGuiana(Cambridge,MA:Harvard
UniversityPress,2012),JournalofModernHistory85:3(September2013)
DominiqueKalifa,Biribi.Lesbagnescoloniauxdel’arméefrançaise(Paris:Perrin,2009),Revue
Historique635(Winter2010)
“TheFateofRedOctober,”SovietHistoryreviewarticle,HistoryWorkshopJournal56:1(2003)
ACADEMICTRANSLATIONWORK
SamuelMoyn,“Del’eauàlarivière?laréceptionAnglo-AméricainedePierreRosanvallon,”inSarah
Al-MataryandFlorentGuénard,eds.,LaDémocratieàl’œuvre:autourdePierreRosanvallon,
ActesducolloquedeCérisy2014(Paris:EditionsduSeuil,2015).
PhilippeDesan,“ForaTheoryofFormsinMontaigne,”inZahiZalloua,ed.,MontaigneAfter
Theory/TheoryafterMontaigne(Seattle:UniversityofWashingtonPress,2009)
AWARDS&FELLOWSHIPS
2016 MellonFellowshipforAssistantProfessors,InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Schoolof
HistoricalStudies,Princeton,NJ(1yr)
2014
KlugeFellowship,LibraryofCongress,WashingtonDC(6months)
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2014
VisitingFellowship,MindadeGunzburgCenterforEuropeanStudies,HarvardUniversity
(6months)
2014
ResearchIncentive&ResearchExpensesgrants,BostonCollege
2014
Short-termFellowship,NewberryLibrary,Chicago,IL
2013
Short-termFellowship,HuntingtonLibrary,SanMarinoCA
2012
WilliamKoren,Jr.PrizeforbestarticleinFrenchHistory,SocietyforFrenchHistorical
Studies(awardedfor“UnPayspourlacolonie,”AnnalesHSS66:3(2011))
2009
WilliamRaineyHarperDissertationFellowship,UniversityofChicago(1yr)
2009
ProvostDissertationFellowship,UniversityofChicago(1yr)
2008
Researchtravelgrant,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofChicago
2007
MarieCurieResearchTrainingNetworkdoctoralfellowshipineconomichistory,European
Union–PSEEcoled’EconomiedeParis/CNRS(1yr)
2007
MarjorieM.FarrarMemorialAwardforoutstandingdissertationinprogress,Societyfor
FrenchHistoricalStudies
2006
HertzAwardforresearchinModernFrenchHistory,UniversityofChicago(1yr)
2004
Researchtravelgrant,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofChicago
2003
CenturyFellowship,UniversityofChicago(5yrs)
2001
Masters’Scholarship,BritishArtsandHumanitiesResearchBoard(1yr)
2001
M.A.Thomsonprizeforoutstandingundergraduatethesis,UniversityCollegeLondon
CONFERENCES,LECTURES&EXHIBITS
CONFERENCEANDPANELPRESENTATIONS
“Citizen-SoldiersandFamilyRomancesintheTimeoftheFrenchRevolution,”SocietyforFrench
HistoricalStudies,62ndannualmeeting,VanderbiltUniversity,Nashville,TN,March2016
“ThedeadlytimeofnostalgiainearlymodernEurope,”HistoryofScienceSocietyannualmeeting,
SanFrancisco,CA,November2015
“Aturntoabstraction:TocquevilleandthecolonizationofAlgeria,”SocietyfortheStudyofFrench
History,29thannualmeeting,UniversityofSaintAndrews,Scotland,June2015
“Nostalgiain1688:Themakingofadeadlyemotion,”AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryof
Medicine,88thannualmeeting,YaleUniversity,NewHaven,CT,April2015
“WhenEmilewenttowar,”SocietyforFrenchHistoricalStudies,60thannualmeeting,Universitédu
QuébecàMontréal,Montreal,Canada,April2014(panelorganizer:“Misfitsandmisfires:the
otherwarsoftheFrenchRevolution”)
“1814,wartime,andafter:fromhomesicknesstonostalgia,”ConsortiumontheRevolutionaryEra,
1750-1850,44thannualmeeting,Oxford,MS,February2014
“CritiqueintheHistoryofEmotions,”AmericanHistoricalAssociation,128thannualmeeting,
Washington,DC,January2014
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“DyingofnostalgiaintheageofRomanticism,”RomanticFeelings:Continuitiesanddiscontinuities
inthehistoryofemotions,GenevaUniversity,Switzerland,September2013
“Faraway,soclose:TocquevilleonwarinAlgeria,”SocietyforFrenchHistoricalStudies,59thannual
meeting,HarvardUniversity/MIT,Boston,MA,April2013(panelorganizer:“Guerres
d’ailleurs:Byron,Tocqueville,Verne,andwaratadistanceinthenineteenthcentury”)
“Emileinthetrenches:Emotionsofarevolutionaryvolunteer,”ConsortiumfortheRevolutionary
Era,43rdannualmeeting,FortWorth,TX,February2013
“Nostalgia:AdeadlyemotionatthetimeoftheFrenchRevolution,”SocietyfortheSocialHistoryof
Medicine,summerconferenceon“Emotions,Health,andWellbeing,”QueenMaryUniversity,
London,UK,September2012(panelorganizer:“Homesickmen:Soldiers’nostalgiaacrossthe
ages”)
“Departingsons:TheiconographyofconscriptionduringtheRevolutionaryandNapoleonicwars,”
Contestedviews:VisualcultureandtheRevolutionaryandNapoleonicWars,TateBritain,
London,UK,July2012
“Lanostalgie:histoired’uneémotionmortelle,”L’émotion:Del’espaceprivéàl’espacepublic,
UniversitédeParisVII,Paris,France,April2012
“Homesickwarriors:Fatalnostalgiaasanineteenth-centurywarneurosis,”AmericanHistorical
Association,126thannualmeeting,Chicago,IL,January2012
“Guerrierssensibles:Fatalnostalgiaandthelateeighteenth-centuryunconscious,”EighteenthCenturyStudiesWorkshop,10thannualmeeting,UniversityofIndiana,Bloomington,IN,May
2011
“Lanostalgieafricaine,orthecolonialdiseasethatneverquitewas,”SocietyfortheStudyofFrench
History,24rdannualmeeting,NewcastleUniversity,UK,June2010
“Soldiers’nostalgiaduringtheRevolutionaryandNapoleonicwars,”War,EmpireandSlavery,
1790-1820,”UniversityofYork,UK,May2008
“Acclimatizingtoalienation:DeadlynostalgiaduringthecolonizationofAlgeria,”SocietyforFrench
HistoricalStudies,54thannualmeeting,RutgersUniversity,NewBrunswick,NJ,April2008
“Ennuietfatiguependantlacolonisationdel’Algérie,”L’ennui,XIXe-XXesiècles,UniversitédeParis
I,France,November2007
INVITEDANDPUBLICLECTURES
“Tempsetémoisdusoldat-citoyenauXVIIIeetXIXesiècles,”UniversitédeParisIPanthéonSorbonne,Paris,February2016
“Beforetrauma:nostalgiaorthemelancholyofwar,”LibraryofCongress,Washington,DC,July
2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCNj04ctMSg
“Themelancholyofwar:aninnerhistoryofcatastrophe,”MichiganStateUniversity,EastLansing,
MI,April2015
“Nostalgiain1688,”MindadeGunzburgCenterforEuropeanStudies,HarvardUniversity,
Cambridge,MA,March2014
“Beforetrauma:Nostalgiaasanineteenth-centuryemotionaldisorder,”InstituteforFrenchStudies,
NewYorkUniversity,NY,April2013
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“L’utopienostalgiqueauxsourcesdel’Algériefrançaise,”Utopieetnostalgie,MaisondesSciences
del’Homme-Alpes,Grenoble,France,November2010
“Apaysforthecolonieinnineteenth-centuryFrenchAlgeria,”EuropeanHistoryColloquium,
IndianaUniversity,Bloomington,IN,November2009
CONFERENCESORGANIZED
“Nostalgia:themanyformsofanemotion,”InstitutefortheLiberalArts,BostonCollege,November
2015(10participants,keynotebyMichaelRoth,WesleyanUniversity)
“CamusandAlgeria,”CloughCenterfortheStudyofConstitutionalDemocracy,BostonCollege,
November2013(8participants,keynotebyAdamGopnik,TheNewYorker)
“CriticalHistoricalStudies,”ChicagoCenterforContemporaryTheory&FrankeInstituteforthe
Humanities,UniversityofChicago,December2011(33participants)
ROUNTABLESANDINVITEDCOMMENTS
Commentator,“HistoricalMemory:Commemoration,Spectacle,Denial,”SocietyforFrench
HistoricalStudies,62ndannualmeeting,VanderbiltUniversity,Nashville,TN,March2016
Commentator,“Searchingfornewground:Re-evaluatingthetheoreticalfoundationsofpoliticsand
economicsinpostwarFrance,”WesternSocietyforFrenchHistory,43rdannualconference,
Chicago,IL,November2015
Discussant,“MuslimsandJewsinFranceafterCharlieHebdo,”bookreadingandconversationwith
EthanKatzandMaudMandel,BostonCollege,October2015.
Commentator,“Frenchmedicineandwar:NotionsofprogressfromtheEnlightenmenttotheFirst
WorldWar,”SocietyforFrenchHistoricalStudies,60thannualmeeting,UniversitéduQuébec
àMontréal,Montreal,Canada,April2014
Webinar:“EmotionsinHistory:anintroduction,”withWilliamReddy,BarbaraRosenwein,Piroska
Nagy,andDarrinMcMahon,H-FranceSalon,vol.6,issue1,November2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdDKOYDrps
EXHIBITSCURATED
“14-18,”Interactive,multimedia,andmultilingualexhibitontheFirstWorldWar,sponsoredbythe
InstitutFrançais,BostonCollege,plannedforfall2016
“Overthere:BostonCollegeintheFirstWorldWar,”sponsoredbytheBostonCollegeLibraries
specialcollections,BostonCollege,May2015
“AlbertCamus,1913-2013,”Interactive,multimedia,andmultilingualexhibitsponsoredbythe
InstitutFrançais,BostonCollege,November2013
TEACHING&STUDENTSUPERVISION
COURSESTAUGHT
ModernEuropeanHistory(graduateseminar)
Firsttotalwar?TheFrenchRevolutionaryandNapoleonicwars(graduateseminar)
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Tocqueville(graduatedirectedreading)
Warandsociety(graduatedirectedreading)
TheEnlightenment(graduate/undergraduateseminar)
TheFrenchRevolutionandNapoleon(graduate/undergraduateseminarandlecturecourse)
Frenchvisionsofempire(graduate/undergraduateseminar)
Historyofemotions(undergraduateseminar)
Themelancholyofwar:ahistoryofwartrauma(undergraduateseminar)
Warandmemory:theGreatWar(undergraduateseminar)
Reactingtorevolution:1789incross-culturalperspective(undergraduateseminar)
OneFrance,manyFrench:globalizationandtheRepublicanproject(undergraduatelecturecourse)
GeneralwillandparticularrightsinFrancesince1789(undergraduatelecturecourse)
Europeinthelongnineteenthcentury(undergraduatelecturecourse)
WesternCivilization/EuropeintheWorld(corecurriculumundergraduatelecturecourse)
Intellectualhistoryandarchivalmethods(graduatesummercoursetaughtattheInstitutefor
QualitativeandMulti-MethodResearch(IQMR),SyracuseUniversity)
GRADUATESTUDENTSUPERVISION
OzdenOcak(CulturalStudies,GeorgeMasonUniversity),“TheorizingFrance’sMinistryof
ImmigrationandNationalIdentity:Borders,PopulationsandNationalIdentityin
PostcolonialEurope,”PhDcommitteemember,defendedJuly2015
EliseFranklin(History,BostonCollege),“ASlowEndtoEmpire:SocialAidAssociations,Migration,
andDecolonizationinFranceandAlgeria,1954-1979,”PhDcommitteemember,expected
defencesummer2016
WhitneyAbernathy(History,BostonCollege),comprehensiveexamination(ModernFranceand
Empire),dissertationdirector
ShannonMonaghan(History,BostonCollege),comprehensiveexamination(warandsociety)
PROFESSIONALSERVICE&SOCIETIES
PRESS,JOURNALS,STUDYGROUPS
Occasionalmanuscriptreadingandpeerreviewfor:OxfordUniversityPress;YaleUniversityPress;
Annales:Histoire,SciencesSociales;Romantisme;
Editorialboardmember,Sensibilités.Histoire,critique&sciencessociales,2015-
Editorialboardmember,EmotionReview,SagePublications,2014-
Co-founder and editorial board member, Critical Historical Studies, University of Chicago Press,
2013-
EditorialinternforTheJournalofModernHistory,2008-2009
Co-convenor,ContemporaryEuropeStudygroup,MindadeGunzburgCenterforEuropeanStudies,
HarvardUniversity,2014-
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Founderandfacultycoordinator,ModernEuropegraduateworkshop,BostonCollege2012-
SOCIETIESMEMBERSHIP
AmericanHistoricalAssociation
SocietyforFrenchHistoricalStudies
WesternSocietyforFrenchHistory
AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicine
HistoryofScienceSociety
LANGUAGES
English–mothertongue
French–nativespeaker
Italian–nativespeaker
German–readingknowledge
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