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Jennifer Sessions

Modern France, European Empires, & Cultural History

Office: 274 SH

Office Hours:
T 9:30-10:30AM
W 3:00-4:30PM
and by appointment

Tel: 319-353-2199

Email: jennifer-sessions@uiowa.edu

Professor Sessions' web: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/sessions/

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Research

Jennifer Sessions' research interests center on the relationship between France and its overseas empire, and on the intersection of culture and politics. She is currently working on a book, Empire Reinvented: Colonialism and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria, that uses archival, literary and visual sources to trace the foundation of the French settler colony in Algeria in the mid-nineteenth century.

Professor Sessions joined the History Department after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

Teaching

Professor Sessions teaches courses in the history of modern France , modern Europe, and European colonialism, including:

  • 16E:051, Colloquium for History Majors: Paris, Capital of the 19th Century
  • 16E:130, Modern European Imperialism
  • 16E:143, France in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1871
  • 16E:144, France in the Twentieth Century, 1871-present
  • 16:236, Readings in Modern European History
  • 16:238, France and the New Colonial History

Publications

  • " 'Unfortunate Necessities': Violence and Civilization in the Conquest of Algeria," in Spaces of War in the French and Francophone World, eds. Daniel Brewer and Patricia Lorcin (Palgrave, forthcoming)
  • "Ambiguous Glory: The Algerian Conquest and the Politics of Colonial Commemoration in Post-Revolutionary France," Outre-Mers, Revue d'Histoire 94 (Summer 2006)
  • "L'Algerie devenue francaise: The Naturalization of Non-French Colonists in French Algeria, 1830-1849," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 30 (2002)

Awards & Service

  • Kluge Fellow, W. Kluge Center for Scholars, Library of Congress, 2007-08
  • Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, Summer 2006
  • University of Pennsylvania, Teaching Critical Writing Fellowship, 2004-05 (declined)
  • University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2003
  • Societe des Professeurs Francais et Francophones d'Amerique, Jeanne Marandon Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2001-02
  • French Government Cultural Service, Bourse Chateaubriand for Dissertation Research, 2000-01
  • Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant, France (declined)
  • University of Pennsylvania, Ford Foundation Predissertation Research Grant, summer 1999
  • Harvard University, Augustus J. Tower Fellowship for French Studies, 1996-97
  • Harvard University, Ecole Normale Superieure Residential Exchange Fellowship, 1996-97
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