RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern Europe, France, Nineteenth Century cultural and intellectual histories. Asia-Pacific and Pacific Islands global and comparative histories. Memory and historical consciousness, historiography, European empire and colonialism.
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- Seminar: History and Memory
- 510:102 Development of Europe II 1715-present
- Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- Modern European Intellectual History
- History of Modern France, 1789-1996
- Patterns in Civilization: Europe and Japan: Love
- 506:203 Histories of the Pacific
- Paris/Tokyo 1700-present
- Asian American Immigration: Living Histories
Graduate
- Graduate Colloquium: Constructing Modernity
- Graduate Colloquium: Theorizing Modern France
- Modern European Problems and Directed Readings
- Modern European Research Seminar
- Weekly Seminar of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
- Focused for two years 1999-2001 on "Utopia, Violence, Resistance: Remaking and Unmaking Humanity. Participation of graduate fellows and sponsored undergraduates in research studies concerning history and human rights, ideal states, revolution, and redefinitions of the human.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2012, hardback and paperback issues)
- Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific (Oxford University Press, 2005, hardback and paperback issued)
- The Memory of the Modern (Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. vi, 255, hardcover and paperback issued)
Selected Articles and Chapters
- “Of Queens and Kinship: Politics and Legacies in the Colonial Pacific,” in Jared Poley, ed., Kinship and Community (2012)
- “Nostalgia in French History: Passions and Purposes,” special Issue of Historical Reflections/Réflections Historiques, edited by Patrick Hutton (2012)
- Emotional Latitudes: Special Issue of Historical Reflections/Réflections Historiques, Vol. 34, no.1 (Spring 2008) Co-edited with Alice Bullard
- “Speaking of China, Speaking of Europe Across Cultures” Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies (Fall 2007)
- “This Territory Was Not Empty: Pacific Possibilities” Geographical Review, Special Issue, Vol. 97, no.2 (April 2007)
- “Ocean-Based Histories—The Pacific” American Historical Review, Vol. 111. no. 3 (June 2006)
- “Does Empire Have Memory?” Ab Imperio Forum (Fall 2004)
- “Representing Landscape: the Place of History,” History and Theory, May (2004)
- “Idols of the Emperor” in Jeffrey Olick, ed., States of Memory (University of Michigan Press, 2003)
- "East of No West: The Posthistorie of Postwar France and Japan" in Douglas Slaymaker, ed., Confluences: Postwar France and Japan (University of Michigan Press, Fall 2002)
- "Empire of Love: Pierre Loti and Juliette Adam", Raritan, Spring/ Summer (2002)
- "Idols of the Emperor" from The Memory of the Modern (forthcoming in Jeffrey Olick, ed., History and National Memory, 2002)
- "Plays Without People" in Lynda Jessup, ed., Policing the Boundaries of Modernism and Antimodernism (Toronto University Press, 2001), pp. 192-205
- "Geopolitics of Desire: The French in Panama" in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 27, (2001) pp. 272-280
- "The Tears of Madame Chrysanthème," French Cultural Studies, (February 2000), pp. 31-51
- "In the Revolutionary Garden: Recreating Savages and Civilization," Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (Fall 1996), pp. 303-319
- "Doctor, Judge, Vagabond: Identity, Identification, and Other Memories of the State," History and Memory,Vol. 6, no. 1. 1994, pp. 73-94
- "The Body of the Philosopher: Memory, Mythology, and the Modern," Strategies, Vol. 4/5 1991, pp. 134-150
AWARDS
- Community/ University Research Partnership Grant with Intersect Fund (2012)
- International Service Learning Grant with GREEN (Renewable Energy NGO) (2012)
- Bildner Intercultural Fellows Grant: “Dancing Histories: Intercultural History” with Jeffrey Friedman (2005-6)
- Purpose Grant: “Performing History” with Jennifer Jones (2003-4)
- Bildner Intercultural Fellows Grant: “Asian Oceans: Intercultural History” with Indrani Chatterjee (2003-4)
- Project Director, "Utopia, Violence Resistance: Remaking and Unmaking
- Humanity—Global Visions/ Local Histories," project for Rutgers Centerfor Historical Analysis (2000-2001)
- Rutgers Dialogues Grant: "Rethinking the Pacific Century: History and Globalization" (1999, 2000, 2001)
- NEH Summer Institute: Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands East-West Center, Honolulu (1999)
- Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching (1997)
- Faculty Prize, UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (1990)
- Paris Program in Critical Theory (1990)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Society for French Historical Studies
- Western Society for French History
- New York Area French History Seminar
- Editorial Board Historical Reflections/ Réflections Historiques
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- AAUP
