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Patricia Lorcin

Department of History 1020 HellerH
Curriculum Vitae

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Specialties

  • Cultural and social hegemony in colonial and post-colonial settings
  • Race and Racial ideology in France and its colonies
  • Women and Gender in European colonies
  • Modern France and French imperialism

Educational Background

  • PhD: Modern European History, Columbia University, New York.

Publications

  • Imperial Identities. Lorcin, Patricia M E, London/New York, I.B. Tauris/St. Martins Press, Author, 1995/1999.
  • Algeria and France 1800-2000: Identity, Memory and Nostalgia. Lorcin, Patricia M E, Editor, 2006.
  • Migrances, Diasporas et Transculturalités Francophones. Littératures et cultures d’Afrique, des Caraïbes, d’Europe et du Québec. Lorcin, Patricia M E, Hafid Gafaiti, David Troyansky, Harmattan, Co-Editor, 2005.
  • Kabyles, Arabs, Français: identités coloniales. Lorcin, Patricia M E, PULIM, Author, 2005.
  • Special issue of FHS on France and Islam. Lorcin, Patricia M E, Duke University Press, Co-Editor, 2007.
  • Imperialism, Cultural Identity and Race in Colonial Algeria. The role of the Medical Corps: 1830-1870: Lorcin, Patricia M E, ISIS, 90(4) 653-679, 1999.
  • Rome and France in Africa. Recovering Algeria's Latin Past: Lorcin, Patricia M E, French Historical Studies, 25(2) 295-329, 2002.
  • Women, Gender and Nation in colonial novels of inter-war Algeria: Lorcin, Patricia M E, Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques, 28(2) 163-184, 2002.
  • Mediating Gender, Mediating Race: Women writers in colonial Algeria,: Lorcin, Patricia M E, Culture, Theory and Critique, 45(1) 45-61, 2004.

Professional Activities

  • Editor, French Historical Studies: Principal editor of Journal , 2007 - 2010

Outreach Activities

  • Interview: Program dedicated to the Freshman Seminar, "Spaces and Boundaries of War” on France Culture, “La Fabrique de l’Histoire),, July 13, 2007
  • Interviewee: "La Fabrique de l'Histoire", France Culture, May 25, 2007
  • Moderator: Series at the Walker Museum, Minneapolis on “Selling Democracy”, April 6, 2006
  • Panel Participant on French Elections: Minnesota Public Radio (KNOW), May 4, 2007
  • Speaker on French Immigration: Minnesota Humanities Center, February 2007

Awards

  • Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Fellowship, 2004
  • William Koren Prize for best article in French History in North America, 2002
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 1999
  • President's Fellowship Columbia University, 1984

Courses Taught

  • HIST 1032: Europe and the World 1500 to the present
  • HIST 1910W: Boundaries and Spaces of War: France 1870-1962
  • Hist 3731: Citizens and the State in Modern France From the Revolution of 1789 to Post-de Gaulle: 1789-1991
  • Hist 3724: Women, Revolution and War in 20th Century Europe
  • HIST 4961 Senior Paper: Imperialism and Empire
  • HIST 5960: Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Theory and Practice
  • HIST 5960: French Imperialism
  • HIST 8960: France 1870-2000
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