CURRICULUM VITAE

Martha Hanna
Department of History
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder CO 80309-0234
303 492 8373

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EDUCATION

 

May 1989                                                  Ph.D.  History, Georgetown University

December 1978                                         M.A., History, University of Toronto

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

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

August 1996 – Present                               Associate Professor, History

                                                                  University of Colorado, Boulder

January 1989 – August 1996                      Assistant Professor, History

                                                                  University of Colorado, Boulder

January 1988 – December 1988                 Instructor, History,

                                                                  University of Colorado, Boulder

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Peer-Reviewed Books

 

Your Death would be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War.  Forthcoming from Harvard University Press (anticipated publication date: October 2006).

 

The Mobilization of Intellect:  French Scholars and Writers during the Great War.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1996. 292 pp. + ix.

      Choice, Outstanding Academic Book, 1997

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

“A Republic of Letters: The Epistolary Tradition in World War I France,” American Historical Review, 108, 5 (December, 2003): 1338-1361.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

                                                                                                     

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

 

“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.

 

Invited Essays

 

“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.

 

“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.

 

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

 

Encyclopedia Articles

“The Action Française.”  Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004, Macmillan Reference USA, forthcoming.

 

“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.

                                                                                                                 
Book Reviews

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Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933, by Stephen Schloesser.  Buffalo: University of Toronto, Press, 2005.  Catholic Historical Review (July 2006):  337-338.

 

Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914, by Harold Mah.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.  The European Legacy: The Journal of the Society for the Study of European Ideas, 11, 5 (2006):  567-568.

 

Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France, by Christopher Lloyd.  New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.   War in History (November 2005): 478-480.

 

France and the Great War 1914-1918, by Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.  H-France, October, 2003.

 

For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880-1930s, by Mary Lynn Stewart.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  xii + 274.  Journal of the History of Sexuality, 12, 2 (April, 2003): 329-333.

 

The New Bergson, ed. John Mullarkey.  Manchester University Press, 1999.  Theory, Culture, and Society 20, 2 (2003): 145-153.

 

The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism, and the First World War, by Angela K. Smith. New York:  Manchester University Press. 2000; and French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front, by Margaret Darrow. New York: Berg. 2000. American Historical Review, 107, 3 (June 2002): 929-30.

 

European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918, ed. Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.  Journal of Modern History 72, 4 (December 2000): 999-1001.

 

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.

 

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

 

Conference Papers

                                         

“What did the Home front Know?:   Rumor and Real News in Rural France, 1914-1918,” paper presented to the War and Virtual War conference, Salzburg, Austria, October, 2004.

“Doughboys in the Dordogne:  Public Perceptions of the American Expeditionary Force in Rural France, 1917-1918,” paper presented to the Annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Paris, France, June 2004.

“The Great War and the Peasant Family,” paper presented to the Annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Milwaukee, WI, April 2003.

“Scenes from a Peasant Marriage in World War I France,” paper presented to the “Mars in Ascendant: The Great War and the Twentieth Century,” conference, Northampton and London, August 2001. 

“The Poilus’ War: Letter-Writing and the Construction of Historical Narrative in France, 1914 - 1918,” paper presented to the Annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 2001.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

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. 

“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.

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

“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.

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.

“In Defense 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.

“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.         

“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.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2004                                                                      National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

AY 2003-2004                                                      Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship, University of Cambridge; University of Colorado, Boulder Faculty Fellowship

Summer 2003                                                         Graduate Committee for the Arts and

                                                                              Humanities Research Travel Grant

May 2003                                                              Outstanding Graduate Advisor, Graduate School

                                                                              University of Colorado, Boulder

Summer 2000                                                         Graduate Committee for the Arts and

                                                                              Humanities Research Travel Grant

August 1996                                                           ACLS Travel grant, for travel to an

                                                                              International Conference

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

Spring 1993                                                           Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching  Excellence Award

Summer 1992                                                         Graduate Committee for the Arts and Humanities Research Travel Grant

May 1992                                                              GCAH Faculty Article Award, for “What Did André Gide See in the Action française?”

Summer 1989                                                         Junior Faculty Development Award,

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UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

Departmental Service

      Standing Committees

                  Undergraduate Studies Committee, Spring 1988

                  Graduate Studies Committee, 1991-1992, 1992-1993, Fall 1997

                  Executive Committee, 1989-1990, 1994-1995, 1997-1998, 1999-2000; 2005-2006

                  Honors Committee/Department Honors Program Co-ordinator, 1989-1990

                  Director of Graduate Studies, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003

      Personnel Committees

                  British History Search Committee, 1988-1989

                  Chinese History and Japanese History Search Committees, Fall 1990

                  Central European Search Committee, 1991-1992

                  Japanese History Search Committee, 1994-1995

                  Early Modern European History Search Committee, 1999-2000

                  Tenure and Promotion Committee for Padraic Kenney, 1998

                  Comprehensive Review Committee for Susan L. Johnson, 1999                       

                  Tenure and Promotion Committee for Susan L. Johnson, 2000

                  Faculty Mentor for Professor Abigail Dyer, 2000-2001, 2001-2002

                  Early Modern European History Search Committee, 2002-2003

                  Faculty Mentor for Brian Delay, 2004-2005

                  Modern Latin American History Search Committee, 2005-2006

      Other Departmental Service

                  Futures Committee, Spring-Fall, 1992

                  Program Review, 1995-1996

                  Faculty Seminar Coordinator, 1995-1996

Departmental Technology Liaison with Faculty Teaching Excellence Program,

                  1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003

 

College and Campus Service

                  International Affairs Committee, Spring 1990, Spring 1992

                  Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Prize Committee, 1993-1994, 1997-1998

                  Twentieth-Century Humanities Initiative, 1994-1995, 1995-1996

                  Twentieth-Century Humanities Conference Committee, 1995-1996

                  Kayden Manuscript Prize Committee, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2002-03

                              Chair of Kayden Manuscript Prize Committee, 2004-2005

                  Beverly Sears/Dean’s Small Grants Committee, 1999, 2000, 2001

                  Boulder Faculty Assembly Committee on Women, Co-Chair, 2000-2001, 2001-2002

                  Boulder Faculty Assembly Executive Committee, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003

                              Vice-Chair, Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2002-2003

                  Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2003:

                              Chair, Ad-Hoc Committee Evaluating Faculty Course Questionnaires

                  Boulder Faculty Assembly Research Prize Committee, 2001

                  Chancellor’s Task Force on Child-Care, 2001

                  FTEP, Technology Liaison Grants Review Committee, 2001

                  Internal Review Committee, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, 2005

                  Chair of Internal Review Committee, Women’s Studies, University of Colorado, 2006

 

 

Professional Service

 

Reviewed manuscripts and book proposals for French Historical Studies, Peace and Change, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, Journal of the History of Ideas, American Historical Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, State University of New York Press, Houghton Mifflin, W. W. Norton and Co., Bedford Books, University of Notre Dame Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, Oxford University Press.

 

Vice-President, Western Society for French History, 2005-2006

– Chair of the Gargan Prize committee; the Millstone paper prize committee; the Millstone Research fellowship committee

Editorial Board, French Historical Studies, June 2004 - May 2007.

Book solicitation editor, H-France, June 2004 - May 2007.  

Society for French Historical Studies, Research Travel Award Committee, 2002 - 2005.

      Chair of the committee, AY 2004-2005.

Program committee for the 1997 annual meeting of the Western Society for French History.

General Council of the Western Society for French History, 1994 -1997.

 

Commentator, the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Colorado Springs, CO, October 2005.

Commentator, Uncovering the First World War, sponsored by the International Society for First World War Studies, Dublin, Ireland, September 2005.

Commentator, the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford, CA, March 2005.

Commentator, the annual meeting of the American Historical Association/American Catholic Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, January 2002.

Commentator, the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Lexington, KY, March 1997.

Commentator, the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Charlotte, NC, November 1996.

Commentator, the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Las Vegas, NV, November 1995.

Commentator, the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History, Des Moines, IA, October 1994. 

Chaired panel at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, El Paso, TX, March 1992.

Commentator, International Conference on the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., May 1989.

 

Community Service

History Day judge, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006

Faculty advisor to NEH Young Scholar, 1989

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

 

American Historical Association

Society for French Historical Studies

Western Society for French History