Martha Hanna                                                                     Department of History

2809 Kenyon Circle                                                            University of Colorado, Boulder

Boulder, CO 80303                                                            Boulder, CO 80309-0234

(303) 499 8876                                                                  (303) 492-8373
 

EDUCATION
 

May 1977                                                                        B. A., History and Political Science
                                                                                        University of Winnipeg

December 1978                                                               M.A., History
                                                                                        University of Toronto

May 1989                                                                        Ph.D., History
                                                                                        Georgetown University
 
 
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 

January 1988 - December 1988                                       Instructor

January 1989 - August 1996                                            Assistant Professor

August 1996 - Present                                                     Associate Professor
                                                                                       Department of History
                                                                                       University of Colorado, Boulder
 

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
 

The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Choice, Outstanding Academic Book, 1997
 

Articles
 

"Iconology and Ideology: Images of Joan of Arc in the Idiom of the Action française, 1908-1931," French Historical Studies 14 (Fall 1985): 215-39.
 

"What Did André Gide See in the Action française?" Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 17 (Winter 1991): 1-22.
 

"Metaphors of Malaise and Misogyny in the Rhetoric of the Action française," Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 20 (Winter 1994): 29-55.
 

"The Catholic Construction of the Great War," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 21 (1994): 191-200.
 

"Natalism, Homosexuality, and the Controversy over Corydon." Homosexuality in Modern France, ed. Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant Ragan. Oxford University Press, 1996: 202-224.
 

"Laying Siege to the Sorbonne: The Action française Attack upon the Dreyfusard University," Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 24 (Spring, 1998): 155-177.
 

"Anti-Semitism," "British Expeditionary Force," "Abel Bonnard," "Dieppe," "André Malraux," Historical Dictionary of World War II France: The Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938-1946, ed. Bertram Gordon. Greenwood Press, 1998.
 

"French Women and American Men: 'Foreign' Students at the University of Paris, 1915-1925," French Historical Studies 22 (Winter 1999): 87-112.
 

"Waging a Two-Front War: A Critical Introduction to Gustave LeBon's The Psychology of the Great War," Gustave LeBon, The Psychology of the Great War (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999): v-xxix.
 

"Victor Basch: L'esprit philosophique de la Grande guerre," Victor Basch: un intellectuel cosmopolite, ed. Françoise Basch, Liliane Crips, Pascale Gruson (Paris: Berg, 2000): 29-39.
 

"Writing Home: French Troops, Family Correspondence, and the First World War," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 26 (2000): 267-74.
 

Book Reviews
 

The Politics of Dissent: Pacifism in France, 1919-1939, by Norman Ingram. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Peace and Change (April 1992): 251-57.
 

Science, Vine, and Wine in Modern France, 1750-1990, by Harry Paul. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Agricultural History (Winter 1998): 120-21.
 

The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars, by Charles Rearick. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. American Historical Review (December 1998): 1611-12.
 

European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918, ed. Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Forthcoming in Journal of Modern History.
 

Conference Papers
 

"The Intelligentsia: An Essential Elite for the Action française," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March, 1987.
 

"The Rhetoric of Contagion: The Strategic Function of Disease Imagery in the Idiom of the Action française," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Las Cruces, NM, October 1987.
 

"In Defence of Classicism: Literary Criticism and Political Conservatism in the Revue universelle, 1919-1925," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, New Orleans, LA, October 1989. Abstract published in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 1989.
 

"Action française and La Revue universelle: Counter-revolutionary Arguments, Anti-Germanism, and Anti-Republicanism on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial of the French Revolution," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Columbus OH, March 1990.
 

"Against Kant and Kultur: The Mobilization of Intellect and the French War Effort, 1914-1918," paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 1991.
 

"Classicism and the Culture of French Republicanism," paper presented to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 1992.
 

"Voices from the Vineyards of Death: French Troops, Family Correspondence, and the First World War," faculty seminar, presented to the Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, September 1994.
 

"Natalism, Homosexuality, and the Controversy over Corydon," paper presented to a conference, co-sponsored by the Graduate Center, City University of New York and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY, on the history of homosexuality in modern France, New York, NY, November 1994.
 

"In Search of Students: The Origins of Franco-American International Education, 1915-1925," paper presented at the conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 1996.
 

"Victor Basch et l'esprit philosophique de la Grande Guerre," Colloque Victor Basch, Université de Paris VII et Maison de science de l'homme, Paris, September 1998.
 

"Writing Home: French Troops, Family Correspondence, and the Great War," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Boston, MA, November 1998.
 

"The Poilu as Parent: Family and Fatherhood in World War I France," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Monterey, CA, November 1999.
 

Work in Progress
 

"Writing Home: French Troops, Family Correspondence, and the First World War." A book-length study based on the correspondence of French front-line troops and their families that analyzes the nature of gender and family relations during the Great War.
 

AWARDS AND HONORS
 

Spring 1993 Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award

Spring 1994 Eugene M. Kayden University of Colorado Faculty Manuscript Award

October 1994 Elected to a 3 year term on the

General Council of the Western Society for French History