Alice L. Conklin

Associate Professor
History
106 Dulles Hall
614.292.6325
conklin.44@osu.edu

Education
B.A., History and French Studies, Bryn Mawr College (1979)
D.E.A., History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1981)
M.A., French Studies, New York University (1984)
M.A., History, Princeton University (1983)
Ph.D., History, Princeton University (1989)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Conklin's research investigates modern France, with a particular interest in colonialism. She is currently working on the history of 20th-century anthropology in France and its overseas empire.

Selected Publications
The Making of Modern France, 1870-the Present, with Sarah Fishman and Robert Zaretsky (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

In the Museum of Man: Race Science, Ethnography, and Empire in Paris, 1920-1950 (Cornell University Press, forthcoming)

"L'ethnologie combattante de l'entre-deux-guerres," in Le siècle de Germaine Tillion, ed. by Tzvetan Todorov (Seuil, 2007)

"Skulls on Display: Scientific Racism in Paris’ Museum of Man, 1920-1950," in Museums and Difference, ed. by Daniel Sherman (Indiana University Press, 2007)

"Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire" (French Historical Studies, 2007)

"The Ties that Bind? European Working Women and the Shifting Boundaries of Sex, Race and State" (Gender and History, 2005)

"The New 'Ethnology' and 'la situation coloniale" (French Politics, Culture, and Society, 2002)

"Colonialism and Human Rights, A Contradiction in Terms?  The Case of French West Africa, 1895-1914" (American Historical Review, 1998)

"Redefining Frenchness: Citizenship, Imperial Motherhood, and Race Regeneration in French West Africa, 1890-1940," in Domesticating the Empire: Languages of Gender, Race, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism, eds. by Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (University Press of Virginia, 1998)

European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradictions, ed. by Ian C. Fletcher (Houghton Mifflin, 1998)

A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Stanford University Press, 1997)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Executive Committee Member, Society for French Historical Studies (2005-08)

Arts and Humanities Seed Grant, The Ohio State University (2007)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Alternate (2007)

Chair of Nominating Committee, American Historical Association (2003-04)

Evaluator, Fulbright Commission, Paris, France (2002-03)

German Marshall Fund Fellowship (2002-03)

Editorial Board, French Historical Studies (2000-04)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2000-01)

French Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2000-01)

Koren Prize, Best Article in French History, Society for French Historical Studies (1999)       

Berkshire Prize, Best Book by a Woman in any Field (1998)

Mershon Projects
International Conference: The 'Race' in Culture:  Ethnology and Empire in Comparative Perspective in the Long Twentieth Century (2009-10)