Curriculum Vitae
History Department
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington, NC 28403 USA
I. Education
Swarthmore College, History, 1969-1972, B.A.
University of California, Berkeley, History, 1975-1977, M.A.
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), History, 1979-1982, Ph.D.
II. Professional History
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, 1983-1990
Assistant Professor, UNCW, 1990-1994
Associate Professor with tenure, 1994-1999
Professor, 1999-present
III. Refereed Publications
A. Books
Transatlantic Antifascisms: From the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 339 pages; Spanish language-edition, Antifascismos, 1936-1945, Alianza Editorial, 2017.
The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, paperback and electronic, 2011, 352 pages; Spanish-language edition, La Victoria nacional: La eficacia contrarrevolucionaria en la guerra civil, Alianza Editorial, 2012, named by Revista de Prensa one of the fifteen best “revisionist” books on the Spanish Civil War https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/los-15-mejores-libros-sobre-la-guerra-civil-que-serian-revisionistas-segun-el-psoe/
The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968, Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 2004, paperback and hardback, 310 pages. Selected as a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Reprinted in 2006, named by List Muse one of “The 100 Best French History Books.” http://www.listmuse.com/best-french-history-books-revolution.php Spanish-language edition with a new preface, Alianza Editorial, 2018. French-language translation of final chapter, “Conclusion: A Modest or Mythical May,” Échanges, no. 163 and 164 (spring and fall 2018), reproduced on http://www.les7duquebec.com/7-dailleurs/mai-68-modeste-ou-mythique/ and http://libertesconquises.blogspot.com/2018/12/lesprit-de-mai-68-8.html
Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2002, paperback and hardback, 304 pages. Selected as a 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Spanish-language edition, A Ras de suelo: Historia social de la República durante la guerra civil, by Alianza Editorial, 2003.
Workers against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts (1936-38), University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991, 399 pages. Electronic publication (1999) Workers Against Work (cdlib.org), Workers Against Work (libcom.org) and Workers Against Work | The Anarchist Library. Japanese translation, including a new preface, by Osaka Keizai Hoka University Press, 1998. Paperback edition, Insubordinate Publications, Baltimore, 2001. Partial and updated Greek translation, Red Thread, Athens, 2006. Turkish translation, including a new preface, by Bogazici University Press, Istanbul, 2010. Pirated French translation, Editions Senonevero, Marseilles, 2010. German translation, including a new preface by Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth, Verlag Graswurzelrevolution, Heidelberg, 2011. Spanish translation, Pepitas de Calabaza, 2014. Partial and pirated Hungarian translation 2022
B. Edited Journal
Editor of a special issue of Alcores: Revista de Historia Contemporánea: “The Spanish Civil War from a Comparative Perspective,” no. 4, (2007), “Introducción,” 13-18 and “Las experiencias de los soldados en la Guerra Civil española,” 101-123.
C. Articles and Book Chapters
“May 68 Fifty-One Years Later,” Workers of the World, vo1. 1, no. 10, (October 2021), 80-89.
“The French Sixties and the Refusal of Work,” in James McAdams and Anthony P. Monta, eds. 1968: A Cultural Revolution? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021) https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268200565/global-1968/
“Political Economies and Monetary Policies during the Spanish Civil War,” in James Matthews, ed. A New Military History of the Spanish Civil War: Society, Culture and Wartime Mobilization, 1936-1944, (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 123-141. Spanish translation by Alianza Editorial (2021), 191-215.
“Individualist Extremists in the Spanish Civil War: A Social History,” in Claudio Hernández, ed. Ruptura: The Impact of Nationalism on Daily Life in Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), (Sussex University Press, 2020), 164-185.
“The Rise of Counterrevolutionary Antifascism in the United States from the Munich Conference to the Fall of France,” Dictatorships and Democracies: Journal of History and Culture, 7, (December, 2019), 37–68. file:///C:/Users/seidm/Downloads/3163-13362-1-PB%20(2).pdf
“The gilet jaunes movement,” monthly dossier of Books, (October, 2019), https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=8caae14a3ce85cc0c3490dd18&id=ef974c70ea
“La vida cotidiana y las tensiones campo/ciudad en la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939),” in Sergio Valero Gómez and Marta García Carrión, eds. Desde la capital de la República: Nuevas perspectivas y estudios sobre la Guerra Civil española, (Universitat de València, 2019), 275-294.
“1936: The Eruption of Revolutionary Anti-Fascism in Spain,” in Raanan Rein and Joan Maria Thomàs, eds. 1936: Year Zero, (Sussex University Press, 2018), 13-33.
“Was the French Popular Front antifascist?” in Hugo García and Mercedes Yusta, eds., Rethinking Antifascism, 1922-1945: New Topics, New Debates, (Berghahn Books, 2016), 43-60.
“The Spanish Civil War: A Comparative Perspective,” in Is Spain Different? A Comparative Perspective, Nigel Townson, ed. (Sussex Academic Press, 2015), 122-134.
“Produktivistische Brüder: Anarchisten und Marxisten stellen sich in der Russischen und in der Spanischen Revolution gegen die Arbeiter,” German translation of “Productivist Brothers: Anarchists and Marxists Confront Workers in the Russian and Spanish Revolutions,” in Philippe Kellermann, ed. Begegnungen feindlicher Brüder, vol. 2, (tr. Andreas Förster, Unrast Verlag, Münster, 2012), pp. 34-61.
“Workers’ Strikes in the Paris Region in 1968: Continuities and Discontinuities,” in Workers of the World—International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflicts, vol. 1, no. 1, (June, 2012), 39-56.
“Gegen die Arbeit: Michael Seidman über die Arbeiterkämpfe in Barcelona und Paris 1936-38,” Graswurzelrevolution, no. 363, (November, 2011), http://www.graswurzel.net/363/seidman.shtml Reproduced on http://raumgegenzement.blogsport.de/2011/11/13/gegen-die-arbeit-michael-seidman-ueber-die-arbeiterkaempfe-in-barcelona-und-paris-1936-38/
“L’Etrange Histoire de Ouvriers contre le travail,” French-English bilingual edition, (Echanges, Paris, 2011), 42 pages. Reproduced on http://www.scribd.com/doc/78732809/Michael-Seidman-L-etrange-histoire-du-livre-Ouvriers-contre-le-travail and http://raumgegenzement.blogsport.de/2012/01/19/michael-seidman-letrange-histoire-de-ouvriers-contre-le-travail-les-vissicitudes-dun-livre/
“Protesting Individuals: The French Unemployed in the 1930s,” in Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention, Matthias Reiss and Matt Perry, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2011), 223-244.
“Las guerras del amor; luchas parisinas (1962-1967),” Abel Rebollo et al. eds., Días rebeldes, (Barcelona, 2009), pp. 271-273.
“Historiographie de mai 1968 en langue anglaise,” Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps, no. 94 (April-June, 2009), 3-9.
“The Soldiers’ Experiences in the Spanish Civil War,” in Martin Baumeister and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, eds. “If You Tolerate This...”: The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War, (Campus Verlag, Frankfurt and New York, 2008), 186-207.
“Stanley Payne: An Intellectual Biography,” introduction to Brian Bunk, Sasha Pack, and Carl-Gustaf Scott, eds. Nationalism and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne, (University of Madison Parallel Press/George Mosse Foundation, 2008), xi-xviii.
“The Love Wars: Voices from France (1962-68),” Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 16, (May 2008), 125-141.
“Social History and Anti-Social History,” in Common Knowledge, vol. 13, no. 1, (Winter, 2007), 40-49.
and Anthony Oberschall, “Food Coercion in Revolution and Civil War: Who Wins and How They Do It,” in Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 2 (April, 2005), 372-402.
“Making the French Unemployed Work, 1930-36,” French History, vol. 18, (June, 2004), 196-221.
“The Pre-May 1968 Sexual Revolution,” Contemporary French Civilization, vol. XXV, no. 1, (Winter/Spring, 2001), 20-41.
“The Libertarian Pre-Revolution of 1968,” (in Chinese) China Scholarship, vol. 1, no. 2, (2000).
“Agrarian Collectives in the Spanish Civil War,” European History Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2, (April, 2000), 209-235.
“Quiet Fronts in the Spanish Civil War,” The Historian, vol. 61, no. 4, (Summer, 1999), 821-841. French translation (March, 2013); partial German translation, Graswurzelrevolution, no. 408 (February, 2016).
“Frentes en calma de la guerra civil,” Historia Social, no. 27, 1997, 37-59.
“Revolutionary Collectivism: Parisian Poster Art in 1968,” Contemporary French Civilization, (Winter-Spring, 1996), 145-167.
“Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War,” Journal of Modern History, (March, 1996), 63-82.
“The Artist as Populist: Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War,” Mediterranean Studies, (Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994), 157-164.
“Workers in a Repressive Society of Seductions: Parisian Metallurgists in May-June 1968,” French Historical Studies, (Spring, 1993), 255-278.
“Women’s Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s,” International Review of Social History, XXXVII, 1992, 161-176. Electronic publication (June, 1999) by Collective Action Notes http://libcom.org/library/women-barcelona-1930s-michael-seidman French translation (2002) by the Cercle Social https://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article623 reproduced on approximately one dozen websites.
“Spanish Social Idealism: The Ideological Art of the Revolution in Barcelona, 1936-38,” in Richard W. Clement, Benjamin F. Taggie, and Robert G. Schwartz, eds., Greece and the Mediterranean, (Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1990), 113-127.
“The Unorwellian Barcelona,” European History Quarterly, (March, 1990), 163-180.
“Hacia una historia de la resistencia proletaria al trabajo: Paris y Barcelona durante el Frente Popular y la Revolución española, 1936-38,” Historia Social, (Winter, 1989), 33-59.
“Workers’ Rejection and Acceptance of Work in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts,” in Wolfgang Maderthaner and Helmut Gruber, eds. Labor in Retreat, (Vienna, Europverlag, 1988), 305-324.
“Towards a History of Workers’ Resistance to Work: Paris and Barcelona during the French Popular Front and the Spanish Revolution,” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 23, April, 1988, 193-219. Reissued in pamphlet form by News from Everywhere, London, September 1988. Dutch translation by Cajo Brendel in Daad en Gedachte, no. 7, (July-August, 1989), 1-36. Partial Spanish translation in pamphlet form by Etcetera (Barcelona, February, 1998). Electronic publication in Fall, 1999, by Collective Action Notes. Revised and translated into French in pamphlet form by Echanges (Paris, 2001). Partial German translation by Tranvía: Revue des Iberischen Halbinsel, no. 61 (June, 2001), 17-23. Partial Italian translation (May, 2016) https://www.finimondo.org/node/1842 ; Partial German translation https://www.anarchistischefoderation.de/zu-einer-geschichte-der-abneigung-der-arbeiterinnen-und-arbeiter-gegen-die-arbeit/ (May, 2023)
“La maternité du week-end,” Temps Libre, no. 7 (Spring, 1983), 107-111. Spanish translation by Etcetera, (Barcelona, 2004).
“Work and Revolution: Workers’ Control in Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-38,” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 17, (July, 1982), 409-433.
“Trabajo y Revolución: El control de los trabajadores en Barcelona durante la guerra civil española, 1936-38,” Areas: Revista de ciencias sociales, vol. 1, 1981, 65-87.
“The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts against Work: The Workers of the Paris Region during the Popular Front (1936-38),” French Historical Studies, vol. XII, (Fall, 1981), 249-276.
C. Forthcoming or Submitted Articles or Chapters
“The Spanish Civil War,” in Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm, eds. Bloody Years of “Peace”: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period, (forthcoming pending peer review, University of Kansas Press, 2023?).
Request by Dr. Stephen Bouquin for republication and retranslation in French of chapters of my Workers against Work: Labor in Barcelona and Paris during the Popular Fronts (U. Cal. Press, 1991) [forthcoming Éditions de l'assymétrie, 2023?].
IV. Non-refereed Publications
A. Dictionary / Encyclopedia Articles
“Spanish Civil War,” in Peter Stearns, ed. Encyclopedia of the Modern World, (Oxford U. P., 2007).
“Propaganda Posters (Loyalist)” in Spanish Civil War: History in Dispute, (Manly Inc., Columbia S.C., 2004), 291-294, 297-319.
“Jules Moch” in Wayne Northcutt, ed., Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, (Greenwood Press, 1992), 310-311.
“Paul Reynaud,” in Wayne Northcutt, ed., Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, (Greenwood Press, 1992), 388-389.
“Popular Front,” in Patrick H. Hutton, ed., Historical Dictionary of the French Third Republic, 1870-1940, (Greenwood Press, 1986), 791-793.
B. Dictionary / Encyclopedia Articles
“Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War,” Research, (April, 2005), 5.
“Paris in 1968,” UNCW Discovery, (Spring, 1993), 12-14.
“The Making of Workers against Work,” UNCW Discovery, (Spring, 1992), 10-12.
C. Book and Film Reviews
Ángel Herrerín, The Road to Anarchy: The CNT under the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936), Bulletin of Spanish Studies, (Feb. 2022) Full article: Reviews of Books (tandfonline.com)
Emily Robins Sharpe, Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War, H-Net Reviews (Sept. 2021) https://networks.h-net.org/node/6077/discussions/8291431/h-net-review-h-canada%C2%A0-seidman-robins-sharpe-mosaic-fictions
Fernando del Rey, Retaguardia roja: Violencia y revolución en la guerra civil española, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (2021) https://asphs.net/article/review-of-roberto-villa-garcia-alexandro-lerroux-and-the-failure-of-spanish-republican-democracy-a-political-biography-1864-1949/
Jean-Pierre Le Goff, La société malade, (Paris : Stock, 2021) in Modern and Contemporary France (May, 2021) Full article: La Société malade (tandfonline.com)
Roberto Villa García, Alexandro Lerroux and the Failure of Spanish Republican Democracy: A Political Biography (1864-1949), in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (2021) https://asphs.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Review_4_Alexandro-Lerroux-and-the-Failure-of-Spanish-Republican-Democracy-1.pdf
James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017) in Common Knowledge, vol. 27, no. 1 (January, 2021), 111, https://muse-jhu-edu.liblink.uncw.edu/article/781888
Manuel Álvarez Tardío, José María Gil-Robles: Leader of the Catholic Right during the Spanish Second Republic, in Mediterranean Historical Review, vol 35, no. 2, 2020, 221-225 https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6MPIDRHJST5UZSER6HTZ/full?target=10.1080/09518967.2020.1823663
Charles J. Esdaile, The Spanish Civil War: A Military History, in War in History, vol. 27, no. 3, (July, 2020), 523-525, https://journals-sagepub-com.liblink.uncw.edu/doi/10.1177/0968344520927859d .
Julie Pagis, May ’68: Shaping Political Generations, in the International Review of Social History, vol 65, no. 2, (August 2020), 359-361 https://search-proquest-com.liblink.uncw.edu/docview/2426513422/973435612A324152PQ/6?accountid=14606.
Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira, Soldados de Franco: Reclutamiento forzoso, experiencia de guerra y desmovilización militar, (Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2020) in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, 2020, https://asphs.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Review_15_Soldados-de-Franco.pdf
Joan Maria Thomàs, José Antonio Primo de Rivera: The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader, in Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. XCVI, (2020) 1718-1720, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14753820.2019.1723972?needAccess=true
Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: A Life of the Left, in Common Knowledge, vol 26, 1, (January, 2020), 179, https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/26/1/179/158056
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, in Common Knowledge, vol. 26, no. 1, (2020), 164, https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/26/1/164/158085/The-Utopia-of-Rules-On-Technology-Stupidity-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Todd Shepard, Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979, in Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 28, no. 2, (May, 2019), 315-317. https://search-proquest-com.liblink.uncw.edu/docview/2217855381/B053D1AFA97E47D2PQ/13?accountid=14606
Miguel Platón, Así comenzó la Guerra Civil: Del 17 al 20 de julio de 1936: Un golpe frustrado, in Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (October, 2018) https://www.revistadelibros.com/resenas/asi-comenzo-la-guerra-civil-miguel-platon
Donald Reid, Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968-1981, in French History, (July, 2018), 459-460.
“Críticos franceses del islamismo,” in Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (February, 2018) https://www.revistadelibros.com/articulos/criticos-franceses-del-islamismo
Alfredo González Ruibal, Volver a la trincheras: Una arqueología de la Guerra Civil Española; and Daniel Oviedo Silva and Alejandro Pérez-Olivares García, eds. Madrid, una ciudad en guerra (1936-1948) in Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 39, (2017), 345-351. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHCO/article/viewFile/56278/50923
José E. Álvarez, The Spanish Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War 1936, Journal of Military History, vol. 81, no. 3, (July 2017), 904-906.
Scott Soo, The Routes to Exile: France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939-2009, H-France Review, vol. 17, no. 101 (July 2017), 1-4 http://www.h-france.net/vol17reviews/vol17no101Seidman.pdf
Jean-Pierre Le Goff, Malaise dans la démocratie, in French Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 35, no. 2 (2017), 144-147.
Stanley Payne, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora: el fracaso de la República conservadora, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, vol. 41, no. 1 (2016).
Ángel Viñas, Sobornos: De cómo Churchill y March compraron a los generales de Franco, Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (March, 2016) http://www.revistadelibros.com/resenas/sobornos-de-como-churchill-y-march-compraron-a-los-generales-de-franco
Jean Vigreux, Histoire du Front populaire: L’échappée belle, (Paris, 2016), French History, vol. 30, no. 4 (December, 2016), 584-586. http://fh.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/4/584.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=bdNtKznqdm52WI4
Julio Ponce Alberca, Gibraltar and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39: Local, National and International Perspectives in History: Reviews of New Books, vol. 44 (2016), 138-139. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03612759.2016.1111109
Jean-Marie Apostolidès, Debord: Le naufrageur, in Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (February, 2016), http://www.revistadelibros.com/resenas/debord-le-naufrageur-de-apostolides
Pedro Carlos González Cuevas, La razón conservadora: Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, una biografía politico-intelectual, in Historia y Política, Historia y Políticas, no. 36 (July-Dec. 2016), 375-379.
Octavio Ruiz-Manjón, Algunos hombres buenos: Historias de mujeres y hombres que pusieron la justicia por encima de las ideologías durante la Guerra Civil, in Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (May, 2016) http://www.revistadelibros.com/articulo_imprimible.php?art=1196&t=blogs
Pío Moa, Los Mitos del Franquismo: Una revisión en profundidad de una época crucial, in Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (July, 2015), http://www.revistadelibros.com/resenas/los-mitos-del-franquismo-una-revision-en-profundidad-de-una-epoca-crucial
Stanley Payne and Jesús Palacios, Franco: A Biography in The Wall Street Journal, 3-4 January 2015, 7.
Aurora G. Morcillo, ed., Memory and Cultural History of the
Spanish Civil War, in Journal of Military History, vol. 78, no. 4, (Oct. 2014), 1463-1464).
Eduardo González Calleja, En nombre de la autoridad: La defensa del orden público durante la Segunda República Española (1931-1936), Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (July, 2014) http://www.revistadelibros.com/articulo_imprimible.php?art=481&t=blogs
Javier Moreno-Luzón, Modernizing the Nation: Spain during the Reign of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931, in Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol. 91, no. 8, 2014 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14753820.2014.945804#tabModule
Jean-Pierre Le Goff, La fin du village: Une histoire française, in French Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 1, (Spring, 2014), 140-143.
Trisha Ziff, director, The Mexican Suitcase, (86 minutes, 2011), in
Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, (January, 2014) http://www.revistadelibros.com/vitrinas/la-camara-sesgada
Daniel A. Gordon, Immigrants and Intellectuals: May ’68 and the Rise of Anti-Racism in France, in the International Review of Social History, vol. 58, (December, 2013), 540-41.
James Matthews, Reluctant Warriors: Republican Popular Army and Nationalist Army Conscripts in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 2013, http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/vol38/iss1/29/
Julián Casanova, A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, in Journal of Military History, vol. 77, no. 3, (July, 2013), 1152-1153.
Paul Preston, El Zorro rojo: La vida de Santiago Carrillo, in Revista de Libros, tr. Luis Gago, 15 May-15 June 2013, http://www.revistadelibros.com/blogs/vitrinas/el-zorro-camaleonico
Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Fernando del Rey Reguillo, The Spanish Second Republic Revisted: From Democratic Hopes to Civil War (1931-1936), Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2013.
Julius Ruiz, El Terror Rojo: Madrid, 1936, Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013.
José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín, La financiación de la guerra civil española. Una aproximación histórica, Revista de Libros, (Fall, 2012).
Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, Times Literary Supplement (7 September, 2012), 13.
Julian Jackson, Anne-Louise Milne, and James S. Williams, May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, http://www.h-france.net (August, 2012).
Gabriele Ranzato, La grande paura del 1936: Come la Spagna precipitò nella Guerra civile, (Abc Cultural, 14 April 2012), 20-23; shorter version in Segle XX, (2014).
James Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland South-East Asia, Common Knowledge, vol. 18, no. 3, (Fall, 2012), 538-540.
Sid Lowe, Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism: The Juventud de Acción Popular in Spain, 1931-1939, American Historical Review (February, 2012), 277.
Stanley Payne, La Europa revolucionaria: Las guerras civiles que maracaron el siglo XX, Revista de Libros (July-August, 2011), 9-11. Partial Catalan translation https://www.studocu.com/es/document/universitat-pompeu-fabra/historia-segle-xx-pich/resumenes/lectura-historia-la-matanza-europea/2506496/view
Antonio Cazorla Sánchez, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco’s Spain, 1939-1975, Journal of Social History, (Summer, 2011) 1239-1241.
Danielle Tartakowsky, Manifester à Paris, 1880-2010, H-France Reviews, vol. 11 (October, 2011) http://www.h-france.net/vol11reviews/vol11no231Seidman.pdf.
Stanley G. Payne, Por qué la República perdió la guerra?; Manuel Álvarez Tardío y Roberto Villa García, El Precio de la exclusión: La política durante la Segunda República, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 167, November, 2010, 3-5. Abridged version in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/vol35/iss1/9
Stanley G. Payne, Por qué la República perdió la guerra?; Manuel Álvarez Tardío y Roberto Villa García, El Precio de la exclusión: La política durante la Segunda República; Antonio Cazorla, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco’s Spain; Zira Box, España, Año Cero: La construcción simbólica del franquismo, (Review article), Contemporary European History, 20, 1, (2011) 97-107.
Stanley Payne, España: Una historia única, (Madrid, 2008), Segle XX: Revista catalana d’història, 3, 2010, 197-199.
Seymour Drescher, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros no. 166, October, 2010, 26-27 (French translation in Books: L’actualité par les livres, April, 2011).
Sasha Pack, La invasión pacífica: Los turistas y la España de Franco, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, April, 2010, 37.
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, Les Traites négrières: essai d’histoire globale, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 154, October, 2009, 5-6.
Robert Stradling, Your Children will be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, and Hugo García, Mentiras necesarias: La batalla por la opinión británica durante la Guerra Civil, English Historical Review, cxxiv, 510 (October, 2009), pp. 1204-1207.
Karen Jespersen and Ralf Pittelkow, Islamistas y buenistas: Escritos de acusación, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 151-152, July-August, 2009, 19-20.
Élie Barnavi, Las religiones asesinas, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 148, April, 2009, 35-36.
Tony Judt, Pasado imperfecto: los intelectuales franceses, 1944-
1956, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 145, January, 2009, 16-17.
Miguel Artola, ed. Historia de Europa, 2 vols. tr. Luis Gago, Revista
de Libros, no. 141, September, 2008, 23-24.
Matt Perry, Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the
Unemployed in France, 1921-45, European History Quarterly, 39 (2009), 720-721.
Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of ’68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976, English Historical Review, CXXIII, 501, April, 2008, 533-536. French translation in Echanges, no. 126, (Autumn, 2008), 65-68.
Jean-François Revel, Memorias: El ladrón en la casa vacía, tr. Luis Gago, in Revista de Libros, no. 135, March, 2008, 3-5.
“El odio más antiguo,” review of Alain Finkielkraut, En el nombre del Otro: Reflexiones sobre el antisemitismo que viene, and Jean Daniel, La prisión judía: Meditaciones intempestivas de un testigo, tr. Luis Gago, in Revista de Libros, no. 129, September, 2007, 17-19.
Gabriele Ranzato, El Eclipse de la democracia: La guerra civil española y sus orígenes, 1931-1939, The International History Review, XXIX, 3 (September, 2007), 651-653.
Chris Ealham and Michael Richards, The Splintering of Spain: Cultural History and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, American Historical Review, (April, 2007), 599-601.
“La tolerancia y sus enemigos” review of Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam and Nicolas Sarkozy, La República, las religiones, la esperanza, tr. Luis Gago, in Revista de Libros, no. 124, (April, 2007), 18-19.
Wayne H. Bowen, Spain during World War II, The International History Review, vol. XXIX, 2 (June, 2007), 87-89].
“El Giro Cultural,” review of Rafael Cruz, El nombre del pueblo, and J. Aróstegui and F. Godicheau, Guerra civil: mito y memoria, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 122, (February, 2007), 14-15.
“Inmigraciones en Francia: una perspectiva histórica” review of Vincent Viet, Histoire des Français venus d’ailleurs, Ralph Schor, Français et immigrés en temps de crise, and Patrick Weil, La République et sa diversité, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 118, (October, 2006), 3-7.
Républicains espagnols en Midi-Pyrénées: Exil, Histoire et Mémoire, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, (Spring, 2006), 4-8.
“Historiografía francesa reciente sobre la Guerra Civil,” review of F. Godicheau, La guerre d’Espagne, and Républicains españols en Midi-Pyranées, tr. Luis Gago, Revista de Libros, no. 110, (February, 2006), 9-12.
Cristina Palomares, The Quest for Survival after Franco: Moderate Francoism and the Slow Journey to the Polls, 1964-1977, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, vol. XXX (2005).
Patrick Fridenson and Bénédicte Reynaud, eds. La France et le temps de travail (1814-2004), in H-France Reviews, www.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/seidman .
Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-39, in The Historian, vol. 66, no. 4 (December, 2004), 871-872.
Paloma Aguilar, Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy, in Journal of Modern History, vol. 76, no. 4 (December, 2004), 980-981.
Danièle Bussy Genevois, ed. Les Espagnoles dans l’histoire: Une sociabilité démocratique (XIXe-XXe siècles), in Histoire Sociale-Social History, vol. XXXVII, no. 73 (May, 2004), 114-116.
Michael James Miller, The Representation of Space: Urban planning and protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980, on H-France Reviews (November, 2003) www.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/seidman
Adam Steinhouse, Workers’ Participation in Post-Liberation France, Journal of Modern History, vol. 76, no. 1 (March, 2004), 199-200.
Sandie Holguín, Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain, in Political Science Quarterly, (Winter, 2003-04), 721-722.
Jean-Francois Berdah, La Démocratie assassinée: La République espagnole et les grandes puissances, 1931-1939, American Historical Review, (February, 2003), 264-65.
Kristin Ross, May ’68 and its Afterlives, on H-France Reviews (December 2002), www.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/seidman
Jill Edwards, Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945-1955 (Clarendon Press, 1999) and Christian Leitz and David Dunthorn, eds. Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959, Journal of Modern History, 2001, 74, 183-85.
Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968, on H-France Reviews (November 2001), www.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/seidman
Loren Goldner, Ubu Saved from Drowning: Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977, in The Bad Days Will End (Fall, 2000), Black and Red Notes (Fall, 2000), French Translation in Echanges (Fall-Winter, 2000).
Carole Fink, Philipp Gassert, Detlef Junker, 1968: The World Transformed, in Journal of World History (Fall, 2000), 398-401.
Montserrat Carbonell i Esteller, Sobreviure a Barcelona, in American Historical Review (February, 2000), 292-293.
Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilization to Civil War, in Journal of Modern History, (March, 1999), 221-223.
Mary Vincent, Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic, in Journal of Modern History, (June, 1998), 489-491.
Keith Reader, The May 1968 Events in France, in Contemporary French Civilization, (Winter-Spring, 1996), 175-177.
David Ringrose, Spain, Europe, and the “Spanish Miracle” 1700-1900, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, (Winter, 1997), 18-20.
Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Syndicats nous voilà: Vichy et le corporatisme, in American Historical Review, (December, 1996), 1560-1561.
Mary Jo Maynes, Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers’ Autobiographies, in Journal of the Association of Historians of North Carolina (1995).
Alain Corbin, Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 and Michael Hanagan, Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France, in Labor History, (Spring, 1994), 308-311.
Temma Kaplan, Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona, in Social History, (May 1993), 266-278.
David W. Pike, In the Service of Stalin: The Spanish Communists in Exile, 1939-45, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, (Spring, 1994).
Martha Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women, in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, (Spring, 1992), 36-39.
Benjamin Martin, The Agony of Modernization in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, (Fall, 1991), 28-29.
Gary Cross, A Quest for Time: Reduction of the Workday in France and Britain, 1840-1940, in Social Science Quarterly, (March 1990), 202.
Helmut Gruber, Léon Blum, French Socialism, and the Popular Front, in International Labor and Working-Class History, (Fall, 1987), 111-114.
V. Major Research grants, research fellowships, and awards
National Endowment of Humanities Research Fellowship, 1986-87
ACLS Fellowship, 1995-96
UNCW Summer Initiative Grant, 1997, ($3,000)
VI. Presentations at professional meetings
“Slavery during World War II: French Workers’ Perceptions and Reactions,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, 18 July 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V43i5uQmc9A
“Food Supplies in Major Twentieth-Century Civil Wars and Revolutions: A Comparative Perspective from a Spanish Historian,” paper presented to Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Francisco, 23 November 2019.
“Spanish Republicans in the French Context: A New Interpretation,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, 20-23 April 2017.
Commentator of panel, “Legacies of 1968,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, 3-5 March 2016.
“Was the French Popular Front Antifascist?” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Montreal, 24-27 April, 2014.
“Antifascism in the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?” Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Albuquerque, 4-7 April 2013.
Commentator of panel, “Activism in Twentieth-Century France,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, SC, February, 2011.
“The Black Market in the Nationalist Zone during the Spanish Civil War,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Ottawa, 15-18 April, 2010.
“Animals in the Nationalist Zone during the Spanish Civil War,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Kansas City, 2-5 April, 2009.
Commentator of panel, “Transitions in Twentieth-Century Spain,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, NYC, January, 2009.
“May 1968 in English-language Historiography,” paper presented to the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference,” Wilmington, NC, 9-11 October 2008.
“Feeding Franco’s Forces: The Nationalist Zone of Spain in Comparative Perspective,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, January, 2007.
“Stanley Payne: An Intellectual Biography,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lexington, KY, April, 2006.
“The Spanish Civil War: The Model Civil War of the Twentieth Century,” Eighth Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Messina, Italy, May, 2005.
Commentator of panel, “Spanish Fascism and Republican Revolution,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Madrid, Spain, Charleston, SC, March, 2005.
“The Historiography of May 1968,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford University, March 2005.
Commentator of panel, “Mai 68: l’héritage impossible,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Paris, June 2004.
“Fighting Egotism: Republican Poster Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Madrid, Spain, July, 2003.
“Historiography of the Workers’ Strikes (May-June 1968),” Western Society for French History, Baltimore, Md., October 2002.
“Making the Unemployed Work in the 1930s,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Toronto, Canada, April, 2002.
“Republican Poster Art of the Spanish Civil War,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Wilmington, NC, October, 2001.
“The Movement of the Unemployed in Paris (1939-34),” Occitania-Provence and the Mediterranean Conference, Aix-en-Provence (France) May 23-26, 2001.
“Food, Revolution, and Counter-Revolution,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Santa Fe, NM, April, 2001.
“Supplying Paris: Food and Fuel in May 1968,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, NC., March, 2001.
“Food in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39,” International conference, “Crossing Borders,” Salvador, Brazil, May 24-27 2000.
“The Efficient Counter-Revolution: The Nationalist Effort in Comparative Perspective,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, La Jolla, California, April 1999.
“The Legacy of the French May,” Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, Alabama, November, 1998.
“Quiet Fronts in the Spanish Civil War,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Minneapolis, April 1997.
“Reconsidering 1968,” comment presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Atlanta, March, 1995.
“Revolutionary Collectivism: Parisian Poster Art in 1968,” XVI International Conference of the Mediterranean, University of Pau [France], July 1994.
“The Last Utopians: Nanterre Radicals in 1968,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Newark, Delaware, March 1994.
“Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Antonio, Texas, March 1993.
“Malraux and the Spanish Civil War,” XIV International Conference of the Mediterranean, Palma de Mallorca [Spain], July 1992.
“The Movement of the Parisian Unemployed, 1929-1934,” American Ethnological Society, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1992.
“Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War,” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lancaster, Pa., April 1991.
“Trying to Survive: Women Workers in Barcelona, 1936-39,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 1989.
“Spanish Socialist Realism: The Ideological Art of the Frente Popular,” XII International Conference of the Mediterranean, Athens [Greece], July 1989.
“Acceptance and Refusal of Work at the 1937 Exposition,” Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Columbia SC, March 1988.
“The Unorwellian Barcelona,” American Historical Association, Washington DC, December 1987.
Round table participant, “The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Popular Front,” Society for French Historical Studies, Quebec, March 1986.
“Labor and the Popular Front,” comment presented to Society for French Historical Studies, Charlottesville, Va., April, 1984.
VII. Invited presentations
“The Spanish Civil War,” paper presented to conference, Bloody Years of “Peace”: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period, University of Notre Dame, 8 October 2021.
Speaker for Masters’ students in History, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, 27 May 2021.
Commentator, Seminario Santos Juliá, on Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira, “Vigilancia y castigo: medidas coercitivas utilizadas por los rebeldes contra sus tropas durante la Guerra Civil Española," Madrid, 2 July 2020.
“Los antifascismos en la época de la Guerra Civil Española,” International Conference: Los Desafíos de la democracia en la Historia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2-3 October 2019.
“The Rise of Counterrevolutionary Antifascism in the United States from the Munich Conference to the Fall of France,” International Conference: From Munich to Paris (1938-1940) From the Spanish Civil War to the German New Europe, Museu Memorial de l’Exili, La Jonquera, 31 May-1 June 2019.
Transatlantic Antifascisms, presentation at Carolina Seminar Series for
Transnational and Global Modern History, UNC-CH, 25 January 2019.
Transatlantic Antifascisms, presentation at Modern European History Seminar, Oxford University, 11 October 2018.
“The French Sixties and the Refusal of Work,” lecture to the Social Histories Group, London, 9 October 2018.
Transatlantic Antifascisms, lecture at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 17 May 2018.
Book presentations and discussions of Ouvriers contre le travail [in French], on translation of Workers against Work, at research center CIRA, Marseille, 15 May 2018, and at bookstore, La Gryffe, Lyon, 9 May 2018.
“Antifascismos, 1936-1945,” lecture [in Spanish] at the Universidad de Salamanca and Centro de la Memoria Histórica, 7 May 2018.
“The French Sixties and the Refusal of Work,” at conference 1968 in Europe and Latin America, University of Notre Dame, 26-29 April 2018.
“Guerra y revolución: una perspectiva comparada,” at the conference, Jornada de Historia: Guerra y revolución: La vida cotidiana, Banco de España Madrid, 5 April 2018.
Taught class (with Colonel G. Jensen) on the Spanish Civil War and delivered a public lecture on Transatlantic Antifascisms, Virginia Military Institute, 8 March 2018.
“La vida cotidiana y las tensiones campo/ciudad en la guerra civil española (1936-1939),” at the University of Valencia (Spain), 25-27 October 2017.
Book presentations at the Madrid bookstore Marcial Pons, 9 March 2017 of Antifascismos, 1936-1945, Alianza Editorial, 2017, 442 pages [Spanish translation of Transatlantic Antifascisms from the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II, Cambridge University Press, 2017].
“Atlantic Antifascisms, 1936-1945,” International Conference: Antifascism as a Transnational Phenomenon: New Perspectives of Research, Saarbrücken, 13-14 October 2014.
Aula de Debate (debate forum) of the University of Salamanca, 25 September 2014, on The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, 352 pages) [Spanish-language translation by Alianza Editorial, 2012.
Book presentations and discussions of Los Obreros contra el Trabajo in Barcelona bookstore, La Ciutat Invisible, and Madrid bookstore, Traficantes de Sueños, 22 and 23 September 2014.
“Atlantic Antifascisms, 1936-1945,” School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh, 16 May 2014.
Interview [in French] on Les ouvriers contre le travail by Christiane Passevant and Lou Marin, « Chroniques Rebelles », Radio Libertaire, 15 June 2013, Paris.
Book presentation and panel discussion of La Victoria Nacional (The Victorious Counterrevolution) in Librería Central, Madrid, 9 October 2012.
Book presentations of Gegen die Arbeit (Workers against Work) in Cologne, Jena, Nuremberg, Berlin, Bielefeld, Wiesbaden, and Frankfurt, including its book fair—from 8 to 14 October 2011.
“Workers’ Strikes in the Paris Region in 1968,” International Conference, Strikes and Social Conflicts, Lisbon, March 16-20, 2011.
“Animals in the Nationalist Zone during the Spanish Civil War,” History Seminar, Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, 20 May 2010.
“The Spanish Counterrevolution and Civil War (1936-1939) in Comparative and Global Perspective,” University of Buffalo History Department Visiting Scholars Series, 2 October 2009.
Department of Modern Languages’ Nadine Andreas Speaker, Fall 2009, Minnesota State University Mankato. Taught (in Spanish) one Spanish Civilization class and presented two public lectures: “Spanish Socialist Idealism: The Posters of the Republican Zone during the Spanish Civil War” and “The Posters of May 1968 in Paris.”
“Studying 1968: A Misplaced Focus?” paper presented to the workshop, What Remains: 1968 in the European and American Imaginary, University of Mississippi, 17-18 October 2008.
“Mai-Juin dans l’historiographie de langue anglaise,” paper presented in French to the International Conference on “les années 68,” Nanterre, France, 19-20 March, 2008.
Round table participant, Presentation of Revista de Libros, Permanent Mission of Spain to the Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 14 November 2007.
“Protesting Individuals: The French Unemployed in the 1930s,” paper presented to the conference, Understanding the Protests of Unemployed, German Historical Institute, London, February 2007.
“La Vida Cotidiana,” paper presented in Spanish to the International Congress on the Spanish Civil War, Madrid, November, 2006.
Round table participant, “Movimientos sociales en la España Contemporánea,” VIII Congress of [Spanish] Contemporary History Association, Vitoria, Spain, September, 2006.
“The Soldiers’ Experiences in the Spanish Civil War,” paper presented to the conference, The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War, Munich, Germany, July, 2006.
“Against Group Think: An Ego History of the Spanish Civil War” at Rethinking Social History Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel, May, 2005.
“Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War,” paper presented to Syndicalism: Swedish and International Historical Experiences, Stockholm, March 1998.
“Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible, Protest Art in Paris and San Francisco in 1968,” paper presented to 1968: The World Transformed, a conference of the German Historical Institute, Berlin, May 1996.
“The Forty-Hour Week in France,” paper delivered to the Wages of Cybernation: A Working Conference on the Future of Work, CUNY, New York City, March 1995.
“Workers’ Resistance to Work in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts 1936-38,” International Conference on the Popular Fronts, University of Southampton [UK], April 1986.
VIII. Membership in professional societies
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies; Society for French Historical Studies.
Serving on editorial board of the Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies and Workers of the World (International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflicts).
IX. Other scholarly or professional efforts
Referee for Yale University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Berghahn Books, Cornell University Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Louisiana State University Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Missouri Press, Vanderbilt University Press, CQ Press/Sage, Bloomsbury Publishing, Journal of Contemporary History, International Review of Social History, European Review of History, French Historical Studies, The Historian, French History, Journal of Modern History, International History Review, Hispanic Review, Historia y Política, Ayer, Journal of Urban Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Mediterranean Studies, and Contemporary European History, Agricultural History, War in History, Journal of the History of Radicalism, Critical Historical Studies, Transmodernity, Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Authored numerous tenure/promotion letters
Invited in 2022 by the Council of Higher Education of Israel to evaluate five Israeli history departments. Our committee of seven professors included historians from Yale, Cornell, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hebrew, and Tel Aviv universities.
Guest Ph.D. examiner for Brandeis University, University of Sydney, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
One-time project reviewer for the National Science Foundation and European Research Council.
X. Teaching
A. Courses taught at UNCW
Undergraduate
History 101 Europe in the World I
History 102 Europe in the World II
History 290 The Practice of History
History 292 Slavery, Abolition, and Work
History 321 History of Modern France
History 398 Twentieth-Century Europe
History 415 Europe between the Wars
History 418 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Europe:
1. Spanish Civil War
2. The Sixties in Europe and North America
3. Work and Labor
4. Reinvention of Slavery in the Era of the Global Wars
Graduate
History 540 European Colloquium: Work in Late Modern Europe
History 540 European Colloquium: Twentieth-Century European
Social History
History 540 Fascism and Antifascism
History 542 European Seminar: Unemployment in Late Modern
Europe
History 542 European Seminar: Work, Workers, and Work
Ideologies
History 542 European Seminar: War and Society in Late Modern
Europe
History 542 European Seminar: Comparative Civil Wars and Revolutions
History 542 European Seminar: Fascism and Anti-Fascism Resurrection of History 558 Slavery in Europe, 1914-1945
Continuing Education
I have taught many mini-courses for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). These courses have centered on the French Revolution, Spanish Civil War, Popular Fronts, Fascism and Antifascism, Resurrection of Slavery, 1914-1945
B. Honors, listings, or awards related to teaching
Usually named every year by one or more graduating seniors for having made a significant difference in that student’s education.