EDUCATION Deirdre T. Lyons University of Chicago 1126 East 59 th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 dtl412@uchicago.edu USA: (914) 400-6111 France +33 07 69 09 78 82 2019 Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago (anticipated) Dissertation: Work, Family, and Public Order: Emancipation and Citizenship in the French Antilles, circa 1848-1914 Committee: Julie Saville (Chair), Paul Cheney, and Jan Goldstein Examination Fields: The Caribbean: 1492-World War II; Atlantic Empires: France, Britain and Spain; Colonial Latin America from Encounters to Revolution 2013 M.A., History, University of Chicago 2011 M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago 2010 B.A., with Highest Honors in History, Magna Cum Laude, New York University RESEARCH INTERESTS The nineteenth-and twentieth-century Caribbean; Atlantic Worlds; French colonialism and empire; the history of slavery and emancipation in the Americas; nineteenth-century France; post-abolition citizenship; Afro-Caribbean cultures; social and cultural history; and the history of the family, gender, and sexuality. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS External Fellowships: 2017 École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Exchange Fellowship 2016-2017 Fulbright Fellowship for Doctoral Research, France 2016 Millstone Research Fellowship, Western Society for French History (WSFH) 2012-2015 Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), Haitian Creole University of Chicago: 2017 Edward Cochrane Travel Grant, dissertation research (France), Department of History 2015 Hervé De la Vauvre Research Fellowship, France Chicago Center 2015 Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Travel Grant
2015 Edward Cochrane Travel Grant, pre-dissertation research (France), Department of History 2014-2017 Social Sciences Division Graduate Fellowship 2014 Sinkler Travel Grant, pre-dissertation research (Caribbean), Department of History 2013 François Furet Grant, pre-dissertation research, France Chicago Center 2010-2011 Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) Partial Scholarship THESES AND UNPUBLISHED PAPERS 2014 Part of the Great French Family: Hommes de Couleur and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Guadeloupe and Martinique, 1802-1848. (Seminar Paper, University of Chicago) 2013 Work, Family, and Public Order: Nineteenth-Century French Antislavery and Emancipation, 1833-1852. (M.A. Thesis, University of Chicago) 2011 Historiographical Considerations of Haiti and the West Indies: Framing the Plantation Economy in the Age of Capitalism and Revolution, 1789-1815. (M.A. thesis, University of Chicago) CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND TALKS External: 2017: Domestic Violence and Indentured Immigrant Labor in the French Antilles, c. 1852-1900, Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Reno, NV Nov. 2-4. 2017: Ameliorating Gender, Family, and Cruelty: French Abolitionism and the Final Decade of Slavery in the Antilles c. 1830-1848, Journée d études: Sex and Gender in France, 1750-1870, at Florida State University, Tallahassee, April 7-8. University of Chicago: 2018: (In Progress) Vive le Mariage, Vive le Liberté! : Revolution and Emancipation in the French Antilles, 1848-1852. Paper to be presented at the Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, May 24. 2015 Part of the Great French Family: Slavery, Emancipation and Citizenship in the Francophone Caribbean, 1802-1852. Unpublished paper presented at the Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, May 25. 2014 Batay Vétyé and the Living Memory of Slavery in Haiti. Presentation given at the Haitian Language and Culture Roundtable, November 17.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE In progress Teaching Certificate, University of Chicago, Center for Teaching and Learning 2015 History Department Pedagogy Certificate Courses Taught at the University of Chicago: Spring 2018 (Appointed) Instructor, Power, Identity, and Resistance 3 (Readings in Political and Social Thought) Winter 2018 (Appointed) Instructor, Colonizations 1 (Atlantic Worlds History, 1492-1804) Spring 2016 Spring 2016 Instructor, Colonizations 3 (Decolonization and Post-Colonial Studies in the twentieth century) Department of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Instructor, Power, Identity, and Resistance 3 (Readings in Political and Social Thought) Teaching Assistantships and Internships at the University of Chicago: Winter 2018 (Appointed) Teaching Assistant, Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations II Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Autumn 2015 Teaching Assistant, Colonizations 1 (Atlantic World, 1492-1804) Spring 2015 Teaching Intern, Power, Identity, and Resistance 3 (Readings in Political and Social Thought) Winter 2015 Teaching Assistant, Latin American Civilizations 2 (Colonization to Independence) Department of Caribbean and Latin American Studies Autumn 2014 Teaching Intern, Power, Identity, and Resistance 1 (Readings in Political and Social Thought)
LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE : 2015-2016 Student Representative, Advisory Board of the Making History Work Initiative 2015-2016 Co-Coordinator: Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Chicago LANGUAGES French: Creole: Spanish: Advanced proficiency reading, speaking, and writing (Haitian) Advanced proficiency reading, speaking, and writing Reading proficiency PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Association of Caribbean Historians Coordinating Council for Women in History Phi Alpha Theta, Nu Lambda Chapter Phi Beta Kappa Society for French Historical Studies Western Society for French History RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE External: 2015 Proofreader for Prof. Steven Kaplan, Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV (2 nd edition, 2015) : 2014-2016 Research Assistant, Prof. Jan Goldstein 2013-2014 Research Assistant, Prof. Rachel Jean-Baptiste 2012-2013 Research Assistant, Prof. Jan Goldstein
REFERENCES Julie Saville (Chair) Associate Professor of History 1126 East 59 th Street 1126 East 59 th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Chicago, IL 60637 Jan Goldstein Professor of History (773) 702-2695 (773) 702-8388 jsaville@uchicago.edu jegoldst@uchicago.edu Paul Cheney Associate Professor of History 1126 East 59 th Street Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 702-2631 cheney@uchicago.edu