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Curriculum Vitae - François Furstenberg
Département d'histoire
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale centre-ville
Montréal QC H3C 3J7
Tel: 514-343-6642
Fax: 514-343-2483
Bureau: C-6100 Lionel Groulx
Courriel: f.furstenberg@umontreal.ca
Employment
| 2007-present | J.W. McConnell Family Foundation Chair in American Studies, Université de Montréal |
| May 2006 & June 2007 | Visiting Professor, Université de Paris VII |
| 2003-present | Assistant Professor of History, Université de Montréal |
| 2002-2003 | Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge University |
Education
| 2003 | Ph.D., History. The Johns Hopkins University (defended 2002) Oral Examinations: Passed with Distinction |
| 1998 | M.A., History. Columbia University |
| 1994 | B.A. Columbia University |
Fellowships
| 2005 | Program in Early American Economy and Society postdoctoral fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia |
| 2001 | Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, New York City (Declined) |
| 2001 | Delmas Fellowship, The New-York Historical Society |
| 2001 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| 2001 | Johns Hopkins Dean’s Fellowship. Awarded to teach the course: “Reconsidering American Nationalism, 1770-1830.” |
| 1998-02 | Fellowship for graduate study, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of History |
| 1997-98 | Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University |
| 1997-01 | Jacob Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education |
Grants
| 2006-2009 | Co-Investigator, Mellon Foundation, “French Atlantic Studies,” co-applicant with a group of scholars from Université de Montréal and McGill University |
| 2005-2008 | Principal Investigator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grants Program: “French Atlantic World and the Creation of the American Republic, 1789-1803.” |
| 2005-2008 | Principal Investigator, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Québec, Établissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs : “Les émigrés français aux États-Unis et la transformation politique, économique, et diplomatique de la jeune république américaine, 1789-1803.” |
| 2004-2005 | Principal Investigator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and l’Université de Montréal, Petite subvention/ Start-up Research Grant, for research on: “Entangling Alliances: Philadelphia’s International Revolutionary Networks and the Creation of Early American Political Culture.” |
Award
| 2005 | America: History and Life Award, Organization of American Historians (awarded for “Beyond Freedom and Slavery,” Journal of American History), for scholarship in American history in the journal literature advancing new perspectives on accepted interpretations or previously unconsidered topics. |
Publications
| BOOK | In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. Penguin Press, 2006. Audio book edition, Tantor audio, 2006 Paperback edition, Penguin Books, 2007Awards and honors Finalist, Washington Book Prize “Starred Review,” Publisher’s Weekly |
| CURRENT BOOK PROJECT | When the United States Spoke French: French Émigrés and the New American Nation during the Age of Revolutions (tentative title) |
| ARTICLES | “The Significance of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier in Atlantic History,” The American Historical Review 113:3 (June 2008), 647-677. “Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Autonomy, Agency, and Resistance in Early American Political Discourse.” The Journal of American History 89:4 (March, 2003), 1295-1330. |
| ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES | “George Washington’s Farewell Address,” in Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus, eds., History of American Culture, Harvard University Press, forthcoming. “George Washington,” in Bill Marshall (ed.), France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History. Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-Clio, 2005. |
| ARTICLE IN SUBMISSION | “George Washington and Slavery: Realist Revolutionary, Utopian Slaveholder.” Submitted to The William and Mary Quarterly. |
| ARTICLES IN PREPARATION | “When Philadelphia Spoke French: French Émigrés and the Transatlantic Dimension of Early American Politics and Economy.” “George Washington and Slavery: A New Appraisal.” |
| BOOK REVIEWS | Bradley G. Bond, ed., French Colonial Louisiana And The Atlantic World (Louisiana State University Press, 2005), for American Historical Review 112 (April, 2007) Adam Rothman: Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Harvard University Press, 2005), for Social History 32 (Feb., 2007), 116-17. Pierre Gervais, Les Origines de la Révolution Industrielle aux États-Unis (Paris, 2004), for Business History Review 79:2 (2005), 365-367. Morrison, Michael A., and Melinda S. Zook, eds. Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World. (Lanham, Md., 2004), for H-Atlantic, October, 2004) Several book reviews for “The Reader’s Catalogue,” a web site affiliated with the New York Review of Books. Winter 1999, and Summer 1998 |
| POPULAR MEDIA | “Bush’s Dangerous Liaisons,” Op-ed, The New York Times, October 28, 2007 and the International Herald Tribune, October 29, 2007. “Spinning the Revolution,” Op-ed, The New York Times, July 4, 2006 “Hurting Neighborhoods Won't Help City,” Op-ed, Baltimore Sun, March 20, 2002. |
Academic Presentations
| 2008 | The Remnant Trust, Louisville, KY, April 17-19 Organization of American Historians, New York, March 29 Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York, March 27 University of Windsor, Windsor Ontario, March 3 and 4 CÉRIUM, Université de Montréal, January 18 |
| 2007 | Institut Charles V, Université de Paris VIII-Denis Diderot, Paris, June 15 St. Laurence Valley-Lake Champlain Seminar, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, March 12 The Seminar, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 2 “Nouvelles perspectives sur l'espace Atlantique au dix-huitième siècle,” journée d’études sponsored by l’Université Paris-VIII, Groupe de recherche sur l’histoire intellectuelle, Paris, January 12 |
| 2006 | “Des colonies aux républiques dans un monde atlantique : L’Amérique du Nord et les Caraïbes à l’époque révolutionnaire,” conference sponsored by l’Université Paris VII-Institut Charles V, Paris, December 8 Annual meeting of the Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Chair of panel, “Regional Cultures, International Perceptions: European Travelers in North America, 1780s - 1850s,” Montreal, July 23 Réfugiés blancs et noirs de Saint-Domingue aux États-Unis, 1791-1840, Table Ronde, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 8 l'Association Pour l'Étude de la Colonisation Européenne 1750-1850 (APECE), La Sorbonne, Paris, May 13 l'Institut d'Études Anglophones, Charles V, Paris, May 5 American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Penn., January 7. |
| 2005 | McNeil Center Friday Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penn., November 11 “Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World,” conference sponsored by The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Huntington Library, the United States Consulate in Istanbul, and Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 19-21 Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, Del., September 27 Early American Seminar, Columbia University, New York, September 20 “Diasporas, Migration, and Identities,” The British Group in Early American History, Clare College, Cambridge University, September 9-11 |
| 2004 | History Seminar, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, October 4 Annual meeting of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Providence, RI, July 20 American Seminar, Cambridge University, England, May 31 Harvard University Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World – “The Atlantic World in Motion,” special meeting in Cambridge Eng., March Department of History, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu Hawaii, March 4 Southern Intellectual History Circle, Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, February |
| 2003 | Sixth Middelburg Conference of European Historians of the United States, Middelburg, The Netherlands, April American Studies Seminar, University of Reading, England, January 22 Groupe d’études sur l’histoire des Amériques, Montréal, Canada, March 12 |
| 2002 | American Seminar, Cambridge University, England, November 24 Annual meeting of the British American Nineteenth Century Historians Association (BrANCH), Carlisle, England, October Georgia State University, Department of History, Atlanta, Georgia, March 21 Université de Montréal, Department of History, Montréal, Canada, February 22 |
| 2001 | History Seminar, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, November 26 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 22 “Spaces and Places Conference,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September Annual conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Glasgow, Scotland, July |
| 2000 | McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 15 |
| 1999 | Conference commemorating the death of George Washington, David Library, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, December Annual meeting of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Lexington, KY, July |
| 1997 | Johns Hopkins Department of History, Baltimore, Maryland, May |
Non-Academic Presentations
| Interview on “Home Run” with Bernard Saint-Laurent, CBC Radio, April 28, 2008 Presentation at the Québec Ministry of Foreign Relations, Québec, QC, February 29, 2008 Interview on WDRC Radio, Hartford Conn., May 7, 2006 Conversations with Kathlenn Dunn, Wisconsin Public Radio, July 4, 2006 Voice of America, “Hip Hop Connection,” July 2006 Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2006 |
Professional Service
| 2006 | Member of Local Arrangements and Program Committees, Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) |
| 2005 | Chair, Bullen Prize Committee: Committee that Awards the Prize for the Best Dissertation in Any Field of History awarded in a Canadian University |
Professional Affiliations
| Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of the Early American Republic |