| Curriculum Vitae John D French |
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Education
- PhD, 1985, Yale University
- MA, 1978, University of Pittsburgh
- BA (Magna cum laude), 1975, Amherst College
Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University: 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
- 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)
- 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
- Interim Director, Latino Studies Initiative, 2004-2005
- Served on the Steering Committee of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University, 2004-2007, 2005
- 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
- Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, Fall 2004
- Served as Executive Council liaison with the LASA Nominating Committee, 2004
- Elected to the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association for a three-year term, November 1, 2001 - November 01, 2004
- LASA Executive Council Member and Treasurer, November 1, 2001 - 2004
- National Workshop Participant, 2003
- Chair, 2003
- Book and Article Prize Committee Member, 2003
- Served as faculty advisor for sophmore Rita Bergmann’s Summer 2003 Mellon Undergraduate Research Project, October 31, 2003
- LASA Strategic Planing Participant, 2002
- Coordinated local arrangements for and participated in the Strategic Planning Retreat of the Latin American Studies Association, November 1, 2002 - November 3, 2002
- 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
- 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
- As a LASA EC member, I participated in two planning retreats, 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
- 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
- Co-organizer of a six and a half hour retreat of the Consortium on Latin American Studies, May 9, 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
- Coordinated the well-attended public forum sponsored by the History Department entitled "Historians Reflect on the Current Crisis: International Persp, October 19, 2001
- 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 as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the History Department, 1997 - January 1, 2000
- Served on the Executive Committee of the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1998 - 1999
- 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 Executive Committee of the North American Studies Center at Duke University, 1995 - 1999
- Served on the Graduate Committee of the Duke History Department, 1995 - 1999
- Served as chair of the Hemispheric Studies Committee of the Duke Center for International Studies, 1993 - 1994
- Served as an evaluator of Honors Theses in the Duke History Department, 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999
Selected Recent Talks and Lectures
- "“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.
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