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John D French

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223 Carr Building
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 684-2536 (office)

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Education

PhD	Yale University	1985
MA	University of Pittsburgh	1978
BA (Magna cum laude)	Amherst College	1975

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, 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 Valdes¬ 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.

Professional Service

Departmental Officer: Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, Fall 2004

University Committee: Elected to the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty to advise the Duke Graduate School Dean Jo Rae Wright on all matters dealing with graduate, April 2009

University Service: Appointed to serve as Director of the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, July 1, 2001 - December 30, 2005; Elected member, University Arts and Sciences Council, 2004 - 2005; Served on the Duke-UNC for the Ford Foundation Fellowship Selection Committee, 2003 - 2005; Appointed to the International Affairs Committee, convened by the Vice-Provost for International Affairs Gilbert Merkx, 2002 - 2005; Elected to the Executive Committee of the Arts and Sciences Council for a two-year term, September, 2003 - May, 2005; Elected member, University Arts and Sciences Council, September, 2003 - May, 2005; PI for Title VI NRC Renewal Grant for Latin American Studies, February 1, 2005-November 14, 2005; Interim Director, Latino Studies Initiative, 2004; Served on the Steering Committee of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University, 2004-2007, 2004 - 2004; Served as faculty advisor for sophmore Rita Bergmann’s Summer 2003 Mellon Undergraduate Research Project, October 31, 2003; Oversaw, in conjunction with Associate Director Evelyne Huber of UNC, the successful application for Title VI NRC renewal, October, 2002; Served as chair of the Latin American Studies Graduate Student & Faculty Travel Grants Selection Committee, 2002, 2003; chair, Served on the Mellon Undergraduate Travel Grants Selection Committee, 2002; Appointed to a two-and-a- half year term as Director of the Consortium on Latin American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, 2002; Appointed to the International Affairs Committee, convened by the Vice-Provost for International Affairs, 2001 - 2002; Appointed to a two-year terms as a member of the Executive Committee of the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 2001 - 2002; Co-organizer of a six and a half hour retreat of the Consortium on Latin American Studies, May 9, 2002; Invited as one of four faculty panelists in a forum on “The New War on Terrorism: Initial Assessments", September 24, 2001; Served on the Duke-UNC Ford Peru and Chile Exchange Fellowships Selection Committee, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001; Served on the Executive Committee of the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1998 - 1999; Served on the Executive Committee of the North American Studies Center at Duke University, 1995 - 1999; Served as chair of the Hemispheric Studies Committee of the Duke Center for International Studies, 1993 - 1994

Departmental Service: Chaired the committee that carried out a successful search for a modern Latin American/Caribbean historian at Duke University, 2001 - 2002; Served on the Graduate Committee of the Duke History Department, 2001 - 2002; Coordinated the well-attended public forum sponsored by the History Department entitled "Historians Reflect on the Current Crisis: International Persp, October 19, 2001; Served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the History Department, 1997 - January 1, 2000; Chaired the committee that carried out a successful search for a colonial/early nineteenth century Latin Americanist historian at Duke University, 1998 - 1999; Served on the History Department Executive Committee, 1997 - 1999; Served on the Graduate Committee of the Duke History Department, 1995 - 1999; Served as an evaluator of Honors Theses in the Duke History Department, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999

Service to the Profession: Served as Executive Council liaison with the LASA Nominating Committee, 2004; LASA Executive Council Member and Treasurer, November 1, 2001 - 2004; National Workshop Participant, 2003; Chair, 2003; Book and Article Prize Committee Member, 2003; LASA Strategic Planing Participant, 2002

Professional Affiliations: serving as Treasurer, Elected to the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association for a three-year term, November 1, 2001 - November 01, 2004; Coordinated local arrangements for and participated in the Strategic Planning Retreat of the Latin American Studies Association, November 1, 2002 - November 3, 2002; As a LASA EC member, I participated in two planning retreats, 2002; Served as a consultant to review the interdisciplinary curriculum Project “Teaching Latin America Beyond 2000" of the Roger Thayer Stone Center, March 9, 2002 - March 12, 2002; Participated in the first planning retreat of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies Association, February 1, 2002 - February 3, 2002

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)

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