September 30
Empire and Toleration: Some Comparative Thoughts
Karen Barkey, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

October 28
Law, Crime and Sovereignty on the Hyderabad-Bombay Frontier
Eric Lewis Beverley, Department of History, SUNY-Stony Brook

November 18
Be a Shareholder in Victory! Financial Nationalism and the American Citizen Investor in World War I
Julia Cathleen Ott, Committee on Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research

All meetings in Wednesdays 12:50-2:10 pm in SBS N320.

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This Field Seminar introduces some major debates and literatures about Latin American history since 1820. It is designed for MA-level students who intend to go on to a Ph.D. in Latin American History, though advanced students from other geographic concentrations, disciplines, and area universities are more than welcome.

The focus is mainly historiographical or methodological: We critically engage–via intensive readings, weekly discussions, and debate–about ten model monographs in the field. Rather than cover all of the “great books” in this vibrant field, whether of trendy or classic vintage, we’ll concentrate on a broad theme found through much recent historiography: nation-building, nationalisms, nationality, and the construction of national identities in the region. The seminar begins by revisiting Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (a book which has worked its influence everywhere) and by sharpening some perspectives on questions of nationality. Then, with close readings of a dozen or so major new monographs, we’ll examine diverse angles on Latin American “nationalisms”: from the cultural, peasant, regional, and ethnic nation to the revolutionary, gendered, and even trans-national kind. (Sorry: some obvious topics, such as economic or labor nationalism, or citizenship and nation, get overlooked here) We hope to end up with a critical awareness of how well Latin American historians–at least those working in the United States– have deployed such concepts for post-colonial Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

- Requirements/Expectations
- There are a few basic requirements for the seminar. 1) Consistent commitment to readings and to energetic participation in weekly group discussions. 2) A collective writing assignment–of 7-9 pages–during Weeks 6-7, to evaluate how you think and write on paper. 3) Concurrent participation in the New York City Workshop in Latin American History (NYCWLAH), a collaborative project with scholars from Columbia and NYU. The Workshops are scheduled from 12-2 on three Fridays (Sept. 24, Oct. 26th, Nov. 30) at Stony Brook Manhattan (28th and Park Ave). Students report on at least one of these seminars 4) A final paper, due December 11, of 12-15 pages, surveying a national historiography of “nationalism/national identities” for one Latin American country, or a comparative essay on a specific thematic approach to nationality across several historiographic sites. Paper topics should be narrowed by Week 8, in time for the scheduled individual student conferences.
- Readings
- Major Latin-Americanist Monographs:
- Benedict Anderson, IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: REFLECTION ON THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF MODERN NATIONALISM (Verso, 1995, revised version)
- Claudio Lomnitz, DEEP MEXICO, SILENT MEXICO: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIONALISM (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001)
- Mark Thurner, FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED: CONTRADICTIONS OF POST-COLONIAL NATIONMAKING IN ANDEAN PERU (Duke Univ. Press, 1997)
- Ada Ferrer, INSURGENT CUBA: RACE, NATION AND REVOLUTION, 1868-1898
- (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999)
- Greg Grandin, THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA: A HISTORY OF RACE AND NATION
- (Duke Univ. Press, 2000)
- Nancy Appelbaum, MUDDIED WATERS: RACE, REGION, AND LOCAL HISTORY IN COLOMBIA, 1846-1948 (Duke University Press, 2003)
- Daryle Williams, CULTURE WARS IN BRAZIL: THE FIRST VARGAS REGIME, 1930-45
- (Duke University Press, 2001)
- Eric Zolov, REFRIED ELVIS: THE RISE OF THE MEXICAN COUNTERCULTURE
- (Univ. Of California Press, 1999)

By now, it has become widely accepted that History (with a capital H) was deeply implicated in naturalizing the territorially delimited nation-state as one of the fundamental categories of historical analysis and narration. This recognition of the radical historicity of their own disciplinary knowledge is leading many historians to take the “transnational turn.” Despite the rapid spread of transnational studies, however, the theoretical thrust and the political valences of the concept still remain imprecise.

Furthermore, so many of the works which march under this banner do so with little or no critical analysis of race, gender, and sexuality. This seminar will explore how ideas on gender, race, and class helped structure global flows of peoples, ideas, and goods and legitimize the unequal power relations that they embodied. In this seminar, we will also discuss how the state serves as a “surface of articulation” between the global and the national. In the end, we will all learn that transnational perspective affects historical narratives and the making of alternative possibilities. The ultimate goal of this seminar is to reflect on strengths, the weaknesses, and future directions of the current transnational turn.

The first half of the seminar will be devoted to reading and discussing recent scholarly literature in the field in order to help students define the parameters and guiding questions for their own research (Readings include selections from: Postcolonial Disorders; Christopher A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World; Matthew P. Guterl, American Mediterranean; T. Ballantyne/A. Burton (eds.), Bodies in Contact; Étienne Balibar on transnational citizenship; Geoff Eley, “Historicizing the Global”; S. Conrad/D. Sachsenmai (eds.), Competing Visions of World Oder: Global Moments and Movements). Students are expected to submit a research paper (20-25 pages).

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in cooperation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will hold a conference in Stony Brook on March 20-21, 2009, on “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries.” Military man and engineer, chronicler and diplomat, lord of a New English manor married to a Dutch woman, Gardiner led a life replete with crossings: of the English Channel to engage in Continental wars, of the Atlantic, of the lesser waters of Long Island Sound, of national, imperial, and colonial borders, of racial divides, and of the very bounds of colonial law. The many crossings in which he and his contemporaries were involved did much to create boundaries between things previously less clearly separated.

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Land Use Map, 1968

Land Use Map Key to Different Uses

Racial Composition and Total Population, 1960 and 1970

CURRICULUM VITÆ

Herman Lebovics

Department of History

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-4348

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EDUCATION

B.A., 1956 University of Connecticut, Storrs

M.A., 1957 Yale University

Freie Universität Berlin 1959-1960

Ph.D., 1965 Yale University

POSITIONS

Instructor, Brooklyn College, 1962‑65

Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, 1965‑66

Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University, 1972

Assistant, Associate, Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook,

1966‑pre­sent

Maître de conférence invité (Spring 2000), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

SUNY Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, appointed November 2006

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies (Duke University Press, Jan. 2006)

Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Duke University Press), 2004.

Mona Lisa’s Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture (Cornell University Press, July 1999.)

—-translation La Misión de Malraux (Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, March 2001)

True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945

(Cornell University Press, 1992)

—-paperbound, Cornell, June 1994

—-trans. La Vraie France (Paris: Editions Belin, 1995)

The Alliance of Iron and Wheat: Origins of the New Conservatism of the Third Republic, 1860‑1914 (Louisiana State University Press, 1988)

Social Conservatism and the Middle Classes in Germany,

1914‑1933 (Princeton University Press, 1969)

ARTICLES

“La culture métissé: le temps des échanges, in Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, eds., Culture coloniale en France : De la Révolution française à nos jours new edition (Paris : CNRS Ēditions./Autrement, 2008), 481-93.

“Two Paths to Postmodernity: the American Indian Museum in Washington and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris,” Cahiers Parisien/Parisian Notebooks (of the University of Chicago Center in Paris), No. 3 (2007), 887-95

“Echoes of the ‘Primitive’ in France’s Move to Postcoloniality: The Musée du Quai Branly,” Globality Studies Journal, No. 4, February 5, 2007, online journal of the Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook, http://www.stonybrook.edu/globality/Articles/no4.html

“The Musée du Quai Branly: Art? Artifact? Spectacle!” French Politics, Society, and Culture, Winter Vol. 24, No. 3, 2006, 96-110.

“Tough Love for France,” in Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, eds., Why France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

“On the Origins of the Mission du Patrimoine Ethnologique,” Ethnologies Comparées, 8 (Spring, 2005), 34 pp. Online journal: http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/cerce/r8/n.8.htm

“L’Opération Joconde: Malraux séduit les Etats-Unis,” Charles-Louis Foulon, ed., André Malraux et le Rayonnement culturel de la France (Paris: Editions Complexe, 2004)

“Culture Métissée : Le temps des échanges, “ in Pascal Blanchard and Sandrine Lemaire, eds., Culture Impériale (Paris : Ed. Autrement, March 2004)

Article based on paper at the conference on the Musée national des Arts et des Traditions populaires, solicited for publication (will appear 2007?)

“Les Zoos humaines et les zoos des bêtes sauvages dans les Expositions coloniales” in Pascal Blanchard, et al., Les Zoos humaines (Paris : Editions La Découverte), 2002

“Malraux y la construcción del Dandy-Űbermensch,” Taller : Revista de Sociedad, Cultura y Política. ( Buenos Aires, 5, July 2000), 49-73.

“Washington et New York aiment la Joconde, “François Cochet, Marie Claude Genet-Delacroix, Hélène Trochmé, eds., Les Américains et la France (1917-1947: Engagements et Répresentations (Paris, 1999), 148-57

“André Malraux: A Hero for France’s Unheroic Age,” French Politics and Society, Center for European Studies (Harvard), 15 (Winter 1997), 58-69

“Malraux’s Mission,” Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1997, 78-87.

“Open the Gates… Break Down the Barriers: The French Revolution, The Popular Front, and Jean Renoir,” Persistence of Vision, special number on Jean Renoir, 12/13 (1996), 9-28.

“Transatlantic Conversations: Dialogues between United States and French Historians on French History,” (edited work of commissioned essays) (scheduled 2009)

—As well as various articles underway for edited volumes.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Rapporteur, Mai 68 s’exporte-t-il? “Mai 68 : 40 Ans Après,” Colloque International, Institut de l’Université de Londres, Paris, 17-18 May 2008

Rapporteur, jury de thèse, Angéline Escarfé-Dublet, “Etat, culture, immigration: la dimension culturelle des politiques française d’immigration, 1958-1991,” 24 June 2008, Ecole doctorale de Sciences Po, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Rapporteur, jury de thèse, Reine-Claude Grondin, “La colonie en province : Diffusion et réception du fait colonial en Corrèze et en Haut-Vienne,” 23 November 2007 Université de Paris 1—Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Principle critic/commentator, workshop on Michelle Warren’s book ms. “Creole Medievalism” The John Sloan Dickey Center, Dartmouth College, 5 October 2007

Rapporteur, doctoral thesis defense, Anna Pondopoulo, Paris VII, May 2004

Rapporteur, Habilitation de Nicolas Bancel, Université de Paris (Orsay) December 2003

Speaker on French colonialism on “La Fabrique de l’histoire,” radio France Culture, Paris, 20 June 2000 (2.5 hour program)

Comité d’honneur, Association pour le Développement de l’Histoire Culturelle, France.

Co-Chair International Conference on the State and the Arts held at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. April 1997.

Board of Editors, HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS/REFLECTIONS HISTORIQUES, 1995-

Co-Chair, Conference, “Making Culture,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 1994

Chair, New York Area French History Seminar, 1992-

Editorial Board, The Old Westbury Review, 1984‑1987

Sometime Member of Lehrman Institute Seminars

Co‑chair Conference on the end of the Weimar Republic, Stony Brook, 1983

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES

Founding Member, International Society for Cultural History (2007)

Fellow (elected), Royal Historical Society

American Historical Association

Society for French Historical Studies

Western Society for French History

French Colonial History Society

New York Area French History Seminar, Chair

New York European History Seminar

Council for European Studies (in New York)

College Art Association (US national art historian professional society)

Association pour le Développement de l’Histoire Culturelle, France, Université de Versailles-St.-Quentin, 2000–

Groupe de Travail en Histoire Culturelle, Centre d’Histoire de l’Europe du Vingtième Siècle, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 2001–

Fellowships and Grants

Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, 2008-2009

Chercheur Associé (2002), Centre d’Histoire, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, 2001.

Project Director, Florence Gould Foundation Grant for five year series (1997-2003) of conversations between French and American historians, “Transatlantic Encounters”

Project Director, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Conference on “The Arts of Democracy: Culture, Civil Society, and the State,” held at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. April 1997

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., 1995-96

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1994-95

SUNY-UUP Faculty Development Fellowship, 1989, 1993 (declined), 1994, 1998, 2000, 2006

DAAD Conference Grant, 1993

Project Director, Florence Gould Foundation Grant for program of New York Area French History Seminar, 1993-1996

Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Spring, 1991

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grants, 1981, 1984

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This seminar takes legal systems and the criminalization of social groups as lenses on modern states’ techniques for disciplining populations, reproducing structures of privilege, and articulating nationalist ideologies. In addition to looking from the perspective of states, we consider the ways subjects and citizens manipulate, modify and evade legal regimes. Moving from the early modern period through the contemporary, the course takes on themes ranging from legal pluralism, social banditry, law and cultural difference under colonial regimes, prisons and rehabilitation, ethnic profiling and criminalization, and the place of outlaws in nationalist rhetoric. The course will be interdisciplinary, incorporating comparative and monographic historical and anthropological studies, theoretical works and literary texts; and transregional, with units examining particular themes in South Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the US, and other other locations. Readings may include books or articles by scholars Lauren Benton, Michel Foucault, Carlo Ginzburg, Ranajit Guha, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Tagliacozzo, Richard L. Roberts, Nicolas Shumway, Radhika Singha, and some selections from literary or historical primary sources.

Colonial South Asia comprised much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was dubbed ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire at its height. The Subcontinent’s status as the most populous and lucrative colony of the world’s largest empire profoundly shaped the world of both colonized and colonizer there. This course will consider the political, social, economic and cultural effects of Britain’s rule in the South Asia from about 1700 to 1950. We will examine in detail key themes such as the rise of the colonial state and changes in sovereignty, the formation of the colonial economy, the remaking of social categories (caste, religious community, gender relations), anti-colonial and nationalist movements, and decolonization. Overall, the course seeks to develop a narrative about South Asia that is attentive to both the profound violence and change wrought by colonialism and the agency of South Asians in the making of their own modernity.

The South Asia region – contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan – has been a crossroads of diverse people, ideas and commodities for millennia. This course covers key themes and developments in South Asia between about 1000 and 1750. British colonial rule from the late eighteenth century remade South Asia, and contemporary understandings of pre-modern history have been shaped in large part by colonial knowledge. The course seeks to understand the way colonialism has effected knowledge of the past, and to reconstruct key developments and trends in light of recent scholarship. We will begin by covering major issues in early South Asia, then proceed to consider closely the medieval and early modern periods. Central themes include pre-modern dimensions of the Hindu-Muslim encounter, emergence of South Asian regions, the subcontinent in global networks, and early presence of European powers. In addition to surveying diverse political, socio-economic and cultural developments across South Asia, the course also raises methodological questions about how different sources provide different perspectives on history. Accordingly, we consider material evidence alongside various narrative primary sources, as well as scholarly writings. The course also highlights the importance of historical memory and the continuing relevance of the pre-colonial period in contemporary South Asia. Overall, the course seeks to provide students with scholarly tools and sources to better understand the formation of religious, ethnic and linguistic communities in South Asia before colonialism.