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JP Daughton

Assistant Professor of Modern European History
Director, Stanford French Culture Workshop

E-mail: daughton@stanford.edu

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At Stanford Since 2004

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.Phil., Cambridge University; B.A., Amherst College

Research Interests

I am an historian of modern Europe and European imperialism with a particular interest in political, cultural, and social history. My research explores how expansionist and colonialist policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shaped both European and non-European societies. My first book, An Empire Divided (Oxford University Press, 2006) examines how conflict between religious missionaries and a host of anticlerical critics defined French colonial policies and “civilizing” ideologies in the empire, especially in Indochina, Madagascar, and Polynesia. I am currently working on a second book that considers how Europeans understood and responded to instances of violence and humanitarian crises caused or exacerbated by colonialism.

Current Research

Humanity So Far Away: European Empires, International Organizations, and the Discovery of Global Suffering (book project in progress).

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Modern Europe, 1789-Present
  • Europe and the Modern World
  • The Witness in Modern History
  • The Ethics of Imperialism
  • Cultures of Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe
  • The History and Legacy of French Colonialism, 1830-Present
  • Europe and the Colonial Experience
  • Modern Europe: The 19th Century
  • Modern France

Publications

Books:

Articles:

  • “When Argentina Was ‘French’: Rethinking Cultural Politics and European Imperialism in Belle-Époque Buenos Aires,” Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).
  • “A Colonial Affair?: Dreyfus and the French Empire,” Historical Reflections / Réflexions historiques 31: 3 (Fall 2005): 469-84.
  • “Kings of the Mountains: Mayréna, Missionaries, and French Colonial Divisions in 1880s Indochina,” Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction 25: 3/4 (2001): 185-217. Reprinted in Eric Jennings (ed.), French Colonial Indochina (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming).
  • “Recasting Pigneau de Béhaine: French Missionaries and the Politics of Colonial History,” in Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid (eds.), Viet Nam: Borderless Histories (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006).
  • “Sketches of the Poilu’s World: Trench Cartoons from the Great War,” in Douglas Mackaman and Michael Mays (eds.), World War I and the Cultures of Modernity (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000).

Awards and Fellowships

  • John Philip Coghlan Fellow, Stanford University, 2006-2008
  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2006-2007
  • William and Flora Hewlett Endowment Fund Fellowship, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 2005
  • Stanford Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 2002-2004
  • Pew Charitable Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2002-2003
  • Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-2002
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2000-2001
  • Townsend Humanities Center Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 2000-2001
  • Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fellowship, Stanford, California, 2000-2001
  • Fellowship and Travel Stipend, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego, 2000-2001
  • John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Prize, American Catholic Historical Association, 2000
  • Graduate Division Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1999-2000
  • Henry Morse Stephens Memorial Travel Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1999-2000
  • Sidney Hellman Ehrman Travel Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1999-2000
  • J. William Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, France, 1998-1999
  • Allan Sharlin Memorial Fellowship, Institute for International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 1998-1999
  • Social Science Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1997
  • Research Grant, Center for German and European Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 1997
  • Mellon Summer Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1997
  • Sather Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1995-1996

Professional Service

  • Co-Director, Stanford French Culture Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, 2003-Present
  • Book Review Advisory Panel, H-France, 2006-present
  • Co-organizer, with Jean-François Sirinelli, Sciences-Po (Paris), of the conference, “Terror and the Making of Modern Europe: Transatlantic Perspectives on the History of Violence,” Stanford University, April 2008
  • Appointments Committee, Department of History, 2005-06, 2007-08
  • Mentor, Sophomore Mentor Program, 2005-2006
  • Graduate Studies Committee, Department of History, 2004-2006
  • Fellowship Screener, International Dissertation Research Fellowships, Social Science Research Council, 2004-06
  • Program Committee, 2005 Society of French Historical Studies Conference