Nathan Bracher is professor of French at Texas A & M University, USA. His articles on history and memory include, most recently, Hlne Berr et lcriture de lhistoire, French Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 32. No. 1, Spring 2014; and Le pass du futur dans limparfait du prsent: lcriture de lhistoire chez Irne Nmirovsky, Hlne Berr et Lon Werth, in Mmoires occupes , edited by Marc Dambre (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013). His book After the Fall: War and Occupation in Irne Nmirovskys Suite franaise was published by The Catholic University of America Press in 2010. He is currently preparing a selection of Franois Mauriacs editorials in English translation with notes and commentary.
N. Christine Brookes is associate professor of French at Central Michigan University, USA. She co-authored The French Face of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Monsieur de lAubpine & His Second Empire Critics (Ohio State University Press, 2011) with Michael Anesko. Her research focuses on transnational cultural relations in France, including recent work on images of Russia in French print culture at the end of the nineteenth century, and the Institut franais bi-national celebrations of saisons culturelles .
Alison Carrol is lecturer in modern European history at Brunel University, London, UK. She has published on the Alsatian Socialist Party, on interwar Alsatian politics, and on ideas about borders in interwar Alsace, and is currently working on a monograph on the return of Alsace to France after 1918. The research for this chapter was completed with the generous financial assistance of the Scouloudi Foundation.
Emile Chabal is a Chancellors Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research has focused primarily on French political culture since the 1970s, Franco-British relations, and the politics of postcolonialism in France. His first book, entitled A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France , will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. His contribution to this volume is part of a wider project on identity politics and municipal socialism in the south of France during the Fifth Republic.
Ian Coller is senior lecturer in history at La Trobe University, Australia. His book Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe 17981831 was published by The University of California Press in 2010, and was the recipient of the W. K. Hancock Award of the Australian Historical Association. He has held fellowships at the University of Melbourne, the European University Institute in Florence, and the University of Paris. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council funded project, Europe, Islam and Modernity: The French Revolution and the Muslim World 17891799.
Jessica M. Dandona is assistant professor of art history at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA. Her research interests include Art Nouveau, French colonialism, and the history of scientific illustration. Her work has appeared most recently in the volume Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture , edited by Fae Brauer and Serena Keshavjee. She is currently working on a book-length study of nature and nationhood in the work of French designer mile Gall.
Denise Z. Davidson is professor of history at Georgia State University, USA. She is the author of France after Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order (2007) and co-author, with Anne Verjus, of Le Roman conjugal: Chroniques de la vie familiale lpoque de la Rvolution et de lEmpire (2011). Her articles have appeared in French History , French Historical Studies , Annales Historiques de la Rvolution franaise , The Journal of Family History , and The William and Mary Quarterly . She is currently writing a book that makes use of private correspondence to discuss bourgeois families and their survival strategies during and after the French Revolution, research that has been generously supported by a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies and a Fulbright Research Grant for France. The essay that appears in this volume emerged out of that larger project.
Thomas Dodman is assistant professor of history at Boston College, USA. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Making of Nostalgia: War, Empire, and Deadly Emotions in France, 16801880 . He has published articles on the medical history of nostalgia and ennui in edited volumes, Historical Reflections, and Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales (for which he obtained the William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies). Among other concurrent projects, he is also working on the family biography of a volunteer soldier during the French Revolutionary wars.
Catherine T. Dunlop is assistant professor of history at Montana State University, USA. Her book Cartophilia , a history of mapmaking in the French-German borderland, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Her work has also appeared in Imago Mundi , the international journal for the history of cartography, and in the book Lespace rhnan, ple de savoirs , recently published by the Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg.
Linda Guerry is SSHR (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow at the INRS (Institut national de recherche scientifique), Centre Urbanisation Culture et Socit, in Montral, Canada. She is the author of several articles and a book: Le genre de limmigration et de la naturalisation. Lexemple de Marseille (19181940) (Editions de lcole normale suprieure de Lyon, 2013). She is currently working on mobilizations and actions against gender discrimination related to rights of to nationality/citizenship in international organizations during the twentieth century.
Stacy E. Holden is an associate professor of history at Purdue University, USA. She is the author of The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco (University Press of Florida, 2009) and A Documentary History of Modern Iraq (University Press of Florida, 2012). She has published on the politics of preservation in Morocco in APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology , History in Africa: A Journal of Method , and Journal of the Historical Society . She is currently working on a monograph that examines tales of Islamic captivity in US popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Audra Merfeld-Langston is assistant professor of French at Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA. Her research focuses on twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, history, and culture. She is especially interested in book history. Her recent publications on this subject include several articles on French book towns and one on the national French literary festival Lire en Fte. She is also fascinated with the history and memory of the Second World War, particularly as it is expressed in literary and artistic forms. She has written about Marcel Ayms depictions of the war in his novels, short stories, and plays.
Thomas Procureur holds a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Rennes 1, France. His thesis (2013) entitled The French Dpartement: A Chameleon Institution? addresses the paradoxical forms of this institutions legitimization. He has published several articles about French departments in Pouvoirs locaux , Mots, Les langages du politique , and La Gazette des communes, des dpartements et des rgions . He is currently pursuing postdoctoral study on the political evolution of French overseas departments.
