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| Gary Wilder |
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 COURSES
TAUGHT
Europe Since 1789
Globalization and Neoliberalism
Europe From the Periphery: Imperial Projects and Colonial
Societies
Race and Racism in Modern Europe
The French Empire
Postcolonial France
Decolonization
European Social Thought
Marxism and Modernity
History and Politics of Time
Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault
Topics in Modern Europe: The French Nation-State
Topics in Modern Europe: The Production of Space
Topics in Modern Europe: What About Welfare?
Senior Thesis Writing Seminar, Pomona College History
Department
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern France, French Empire, postcolonial France
French West Africa and Francophone Caribbean
Negritude, black Atlantic, black diaspora
colonial studies
race and racism
nation-states, empires, and alternative political forms
decolonization
social and political theory
Marxism and critical theory
history of human sciences
historical anthropology
history and politics of time
My research is situated at the intersection of history,
anthropology, and social theory. In 2005, I published The
French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial
Humanism between the Two World Wars (University of Chicago
Press) which examines the interwar French empire, the
colonial state in French West Africa, the diasporic black
public sphere in Paris, and the history of the Negritude
movement. I am currently working on two book projects, each
of which, in different ways, addresses decolonization,
non-national political forms, and the law. "Freedom Time (or
Histories of the Political Untimely): Negritude,
Decolonization, Utopia" will analyze Negritude's post-World
War II projects for non-national colonial emancipation
(i.e., departmentalization and federalism), paying special
attention to temporality, utopia, and political imagination,
on the one hand, and debates about federalism,
cosmopolitanism, and human rights, on the other. "Parastates:
Mercenary Imperialism from Decolonization to Neoliberalism"
is a longer-term research project that will examine the
history of public-private parastatal formations (e.g.,
mercenaries, oil companies, and private military
corporations) in relation to late-colonialism,
decolonization, and the present neoliberal conjuncture.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial
Humanism Between the Two World Wars. University of
Chicago Press, 2005.
“Regarding the Imperial Nation-State,” Response Essay to
four review essays on The French Imperial Nation-State
published as a special forum by the Society for French
Historical Studies on H-France (http://h-france.net/forum/h-franceforum.html).
September 2006.
“Race, Reason, Impasse: Césaire, Fanon, and the Legacy of
Emancipation,” Radical History Review 90 (September
2004): 31-58.
“Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality in French West
Africa,” History and Anthropology, Vol. 14, no. 3
(2003): 219-52.
“Framing Greater France,”" Journal of Historical
Sociology 14 (2) June 2001:198-225.
“Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies Beyond National
Identity.” In After the Imperial Turn: Critical
Approaches to 'National' Histories and Literatures, ed.
Antoinette Burton. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003,
pp.125-43 Revised and expanded version published as "‘Impenser’
l'histoire de France: Les études coloniales hors de la
perspective de l'identité nationale," Cahiers d'histoire:
Revue d'histoire critique 96-97 October, November,
December 2005: 91-119.
“Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere.” In
The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, eds.
Tyler Stovall and Sue Peabody. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2003, pp. 237-58.
“Practicing Citizenship in Imperial Paris.” In Civil
Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical
Perspectives, eds. John L. and Jean Comaroff. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 44-71.
“Irreconcilable Differences: A Conversation with Albert
Memmi” Transition 71, Fall 1996.
“The Last Dreyfusard.” Review Essay on Alain Finkielkraut.
Village Voice Literary Supplement no.138, September
1995.
AWARDS and HONORS
Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School,
2007-2008
Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2006-2009
Western Society for French History Governing Council
2006-2009
Participant in Seminar on Experimental Critical Theory,
“Present Tense: Empires, Race, Bio-Politics,” University of
California Irvine, 2005
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2002
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