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Curriculum Vitae

John D French

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223 Carr Building
Durham, NC 27708 		(919) 684-2536 (office)
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Education

PhDYale University1985
MAUniversity of Pittsburgh1978
BA (Magna cum laude)Amherst College1975
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor of History and African and African American Studies, 2009-present
Associate Professor, Latin American History, 1995 - present
Assistant Professor, Latin American History, 1992 - 1995
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 1995
Florida International University
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Latin American History, 1992
Florida International University: Assistant Professor, Latin American History, 1988 - 1992
Utah State University
Assistant Professor, Latin American History, 1985 - 1987
Visiting Positions
Residential Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 05, 2005 - May 06, 2006
To complete a book length manuscript originally entitled "Building Movements in a World in Flux: Leadership, Consciousness, and Mobilization among Metalworkers in São Paulo, Brazil 1950-1980." The new title is "The Origin of Brazil’s Lula: Building Movements in a World in Flux, 1950-1980."
Lecturer, Núcleo de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais of the Federal University of Sergipe, 2000
teaching a course on “Society and Politics in Modern Brazil”
Visiting Professor, Center for International Relations of the Colegio de México, 1995
teaching a course on "Labor and Free Trade (NAFTA and Mercosur)
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

2009 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, January, 2009
Visiting Fellowship at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame for Spring 2007, January-May 2007
Visiting Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, AY 2005-2006
Award "in acknowledgment of and with much gratitude for your contribution in helping to restore democracy in Chile", from Juan Gabriel Vald鳬 Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, September, 2001
Awarded a 12 month Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, January-December 2000
Awarded the Latin American Studies Association Labor Section Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2000
Research grant, American Philosophical Society, May, 1999
Awarded a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship for Brazil, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (declined), 1999
Grant, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, May, 1998
National Humanities Center Fellowship with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation for a project entitled: The Metalworkers of ABC, 1950-1980: Working Class Consciousness, Organization, and Ideology, 1995-1996
Advanced Area Research Grant, Social Science Research Council, May, 1991
Grant-in-Aid, American Council of Learned Societies, May, 1991
Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, May, 1991
Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 1981-1983
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1981-1982
Learning Fellowship on Social Change, Inter-American Foundation, 1981-1983
Newberry Library Mini-Institute in the New Social History at Yale University, 1981
First and Second Prizes, Book Collecting Contest, Friends of the Amherst College Library, 1974
New York State Regents' Scholarship, declined, 1971
Rotary Club of Brighton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Spanish, 1971
Recent Grant Support

  • Awarded to support a spring 2001 speakers series “New Directions in Latin American History”, the Trent Foundation, 2001/07.      
  • Grant for a Working Group on "North American Intellectuals' Engagement with Latin American Politics and Labor: A Research and Training Project Based upon the Archive of Robert Alexander", the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1996/07.      
  • Grant for continuing research with Scott Littlehale on "Trade Union Power and Regional Integration: The Political Economy of Organized Labor Responses to North American 'Free Trade'", the North American Studies Program, Duke University, 1995/07.      
  • Grant for a Working Group on "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas", the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1995/07.      
  • Co-recipient of a grant to cover expenditures related to our two volume co-edited publication on Latin American labor history, the Center for International Studies, Duke University, 1994/07.      
  • Recipient in Fall 1994 of a Course Enhancement Grant for History 75 "Third World and the West: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico", the Duke Comparative Area Studies Major, 1994/07.      
  • Grant to support an August 25-27, 1994 international research conference on "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World", Peter Lang, Vice Provost for Academic and International Affairs, 1994/07.      
  • Grant for a Working Group on "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas", the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1994/07.      
  • Co-recipient in Spring 1994 of a Course Enhancement Grant for History 170 "Brazilian Race Relations", the Duke Comparative Area Studies Major, 1993/07.      
  • International Studies Grant for a research trip to Geneva, June 1-16, 1993, Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, 1993/07.      
  • Mellon Travel Grant for a research trip to Venezuela, August 29-September 4, 1993, the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1993/07.      
  • Grant for a Working Group on "Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas", the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1993/07.      
  • Grant-in-Aid, American Council of Learned Societies, 1991/07.      
  • Faculty Development Grants, Florida International University, 1991/07.      
  • Faculty Grant, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 1990/07.      
  • Faculty Development Grants, Florida International University, 1990/07.      
  • Faculty Development Grant, Florida International University, 1989/07.      
  • Faculty Grant, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 1989/07.      
  • Faculty Development Grants, Florida International University, 1988/07.      
  • Summer Mini Semester A Research Appointment, Florida International University, 1988/07.      
  • Faculty Grant, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 1988/07.      
  • Field Research Grant for travel to Tampico, Mexico, Tinker Foundation, 1981/07.      
  • Yale Council on Latin American Studies Grant for travel to São Paulo, Brazil, 1980/07.      
Selected Recent Invited Talks

“Afro-Diasporic Solidarity in Black and White: The U.S./Brazilian and U.S./Latin American Dialogue over Race, Racism, and Civil Rights, 1914-1966", Latin American and Latino Studies Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago, April 20, 2005  
“Labor of Love: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers' Party and the Prospects for Lula's Government”, Program in Latin American Studies of Princeton University, April 5, 2005  
“Another World Is Possible: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers' Party and the Prospects for Lula's Government,”, Northern Illinois University, 25 March 2005  
“‘Our Barbarous Civilizers:’ A View from Latin America and the Caribbean”, African and Latin American Studies at Indiana University, 3 March 2005  
“Drowning in Laws or Thirsty for Them? Nationalist Reflexes, Transnational Imperatives, and the Study of Latin America and the World”, Arizona State University, 24 January 2005  
"The World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999,”, Newberry Library Labor History Seminar in Chicago, January 21, 2005  
"The Rise of the Brazilian Workers' Party and the Prospects for Lula's Government", University of Washington in Seattle, April 24, 2004  
The Politics of Aphorism: The Social Question as a Police Matter (Um Caso de Policia), Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, 3 January 2003  
African-Descended Peoples in Brazil and the United States of America: 'As American as Apple Pie or Feijoada', Associacao Brasil America, in Recife, Pernambuco, 28 November 2002  
Who is Lula? And What Does Lula and the Workers' Party Stand For? A Discussion of the October 2002 Election in Brazil, sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1 November 2002  
Racism: As American as Apple Pie or Feijoada, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 22 April 2002  
History, Bunk, and the Study of Latin American and the Caribbean: A Vision for the Future, Tulane University, 11 March 2002  
The Radicalization of a Brazilian Worker Luis Inacio 'Lula' da Silva in the 1970s: Why the Study of Mass Autoworkers' Strikes Led to Tolstoy, Plekhanov, and Sartre, Duke History Department Colloquium Series on "Narratives of the Individual", 21 September 2001  
A Lei Vale Tudo, A Lei Vale Nada: Os Desafios da Lei no Brasil, IX Encontro Sergipano de Historia sponsored by ANPUH-Nucleo de Sergipe and the Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Sergipe, 11 December 2000  
Discussion of the U.S. Presidential Elections of 2000, Federal University of Sergipe, 15 November 2000  
Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2009/11/08