Rachel Kantrowitz

Curriculum Vitae

www.rachelkantrowitz.com

Department of Education 98 Lorimer Avenue

Brown University Providence, RI 02906
Box 1938, 340 Brook Street rachel_kantrowitz@brown.edu
Providence, RI 02912 323.350.2941

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Department of History, New York University, New York, NY, 2015.

B.A. Department of History (honors), Hispanic Studies Minor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
NY, 2006.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2017-present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Brown University,

Providence, RI.
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities and Department of
Education, Brown University, Providence, RI.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles

2016 Triangulating Between the Church, State, and Postcolony: Cooprants in

Independent West Africa Cahiers dtudes africaines, LVI (1-2) 221-222, 219-
241.

In Submission

Below the Archival Threshold: Oral Methods for Writing New Colonial and Post-
Imperial Histories (Submitted) Claire Eldridge and Jennifer Sessions, eds., special issue
on Colonialism from Below French History.

Catholic Schools as a Nation in Miniature: Catholic Civism in Senegal and Benin,

1960-1970s (Revised and Resubmitted) The Journal of African History.

Other Publications

In-Class Debates for Deeper Learning, Training Manual and Guidebook for TAs in
New York Universitys History Department, September 2015.
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Book Manuscript in Preparation

Imperial Pasts and Franco-African Futures: West African Catholic Education, 1946-
1975.

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2017 Academic Technology Summer Institute. Instructional Technology Group, Brown

University, Providence, RI.
2015 Bursary, The Association for Computers and the Humanities.
2014 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Advanced Yoruba Group Projects Abroad
(YGPA). Ibadan, Nigeria.
2014 Postgraduate Panel Bursary, Society for the Study of French History (UK).
2014 Summer Travel Award. History Department, New York University.
2013-2015 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University.
2012-2013 Jeanne Marandon Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Socit des Professeurs
Franais et Francophones dAmrique (SPFFA).
2012-2013 Doctoral Fellow, Remarque Institute at cole Normale Suprieure. Paris,
France.
2012-2013 Pensionnaire trangre, cole Normale Suprieure. Paris, France.
2012 Summer Travel Award, History Department, New York University.
2009-2012 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University.

INVITED TALKS

upcoming Nos anctres ne sont plus les gaulois [Our ancestors are no longer the Gauls]:
French Language and Education after Empire in West Africa, Alliance
Franaise, Providence, RI. November 12.

2015 Database Management and Digital Workflow. Seminar on Archival and

Historical Research. Center for Jewish History, New York, NY. May 21.

2015 So That Tomorrow Would Be Better for Us: Developing French-Funded

Catholic Schools in Benin and Senegal, 1946-1975. California State University,
Long Beach. February 20.

CAMPUS TALKS

2017 Roundtable panelist. How to Publish. Brown International Advanced Research

Institutes (BIARI). Brown University, Providence, RI. June 6.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Conference Organized

2017 Education in Africa. Brown University. Providence, RI. March 10.

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Workshop Organized

2015 Teaching African History. Columbia University. New York, NY. January 30.

Panels Organized

2015 Roundtable: Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication. American

Historical Association. New York, NY. January 2-5.

2014 Chair. Oral History: A Reflection on Interdisciplinary Methods African Studies

Association. Indianapolis, IN. November 20-23.

2014 Exporting French Culture: Diplomacy Through French Institutions in Post-1945

Europe and African Colonies. Society for French Historical Studies. Montreal,
QC, Canada. April 24-27.
Papers

upcoming The School Book War: Missionary Printing Presses and West African
Textbooks, African Studies Association. Chicago, IL. November 16-18.

2017 A Nation in Miniature: Lessons from Catholic Schools in 1960s and 1970s
Senegal and Benin. Education in Africa Conference. Providence, RI. March 10.

2015 The Priests Are Also Colonialists: French Catholic Missionary Schools in
Senegal, 1946-1960. African Studies Association. San Diego, CA. November
19-22.

2015 Metadata as an Analytical and Writing Tool. Keystone Digital Humanities

Conference. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. July 22-24.

2015 Between Church, State, and the Postcolony: Catholic Education in Senegal and
Benin. Greater New York African History Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ.
March 27.

2015 Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication. Roundtable panelist. American
Historical Association. New York, NY. January 2-5.

2014 Integrating Histories: Methodological Insights from Interviewing Students on

Education in Post-1945 Senegal and Benin. African Studies Association.
Indianapolis, IN. November 20-23.

2014 A French School in Every Village: Postwar French Cultural Politics in West
Africa. Society for French Historical Studies. Montreal, QC, Canada. April 24-
27.
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2014 Reforming Empire: Promoting Mass Education in Postwar French West Africa.
Symposium: New Perspectives on Postwar Empires in Africa, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. April 10-11.

2013 Developing Education: Goals and Outcomes of French-Funded Catholic Schools

in Benin and Senegal, 1946-1975. African Studies Association. Baltimore, MD.
November 21-24.

2012 Educating the French Citizens of Tomorrow: Frances Post-War Efforts at

Mass Education in West Africa. French Colonial Historical Society. New
Orleans, LA. May 30-June 2.

2011 Transforming Empire: Education in Post-War French West Africa. African

Studies Association. Washington, DC. November 17-19.

2011 Debating French Christian Education in West Africa After World War II.
French Colonial Historical Society. Toronto, ON, Canada. June 2-4.

2011 Post-War Development and Social Politics in French West Africa: Re-examining
Colonial-Metropolitan Relations. Development Winter School of ETH Zurich,
Ascona, Switzerland. January 23-28.
Discussant

2015 Chair and Discussant. France and Africa in Global Perspective, African Studies
Association. San Diego, CA. November 19-22.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Brown University, Sole Instructor

Empire, Childhood, and Youth. (Fall 2017)

Decolonizing African Education: Student Activism and Social Change, 1960s-present.
(Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2017)
Comparative Education: International Trends and Local Perspectives. (Fall 2015, Spring
2017)
Brown University, Section Leader
Ethnicity, Conflict, and Inequality in Global Perspective. Brown International Advanced
Research Institutes (BIARI). (Summer 2017).

New York University, Sole Instructor

Aiding the Sick, Poor, and Hungry: African Development in Debate. (Summer
2012)
Teaching and Learning Certificate 1 and 2. (Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)

New York University, Teaching Assistant

Africa Since 1940. Professor Frederick Cooper. (Fall 2011)
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Language Teaching, Teaching Assistant

Lyce Fabre, Carpentras, France. (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Peer Review
The Journal of African History, 2016-present.

To University
Creator and organizer, Hay Writing Group. Brown University, 2017-present.

Honors Thesis advised, The Education of Immigrant Youth in France, Katya Barrett, Brown
University. Winner of the Archambault Award for Outstanding Thesis, 2016-2017.

Co-creator, Teaching Collaborative. Brown University, 2015-2016.

Creator and co-organizer, Africanist Writing Group. Columbia University, 2013-2015.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

French to English translations for African asylum cases. Urban Justice Center, New York, NY.
2017-present

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

African Studies Association.

French Colonial Historical Society.
American Historical Association.
Phi Beta Kappa.

LANGUAGES

French, fluent.
Spanish, fluent.
Yoruba, intermediate.
Wolof, beginning.
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REFERENCES

Frederick Cooper
Professor of History
New York University
King Juan Carlos Center
54 Washington Square South
Room 708
New York, NY 10012
Fred.cooper@nyu.edu
212.998.8606

Gregory Mann
Associate Professor of History
Columbia University
1180 Amsterdam Avenue
MC 2527
615 Fayerweather Hall
New York, NY 10027
g.mann@columbia.edu
212.854.3168

Jonathan Zimmerman
Professor of History of Education
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
zimmj@gse.upenn.edu
215.898.5672

Kenneth Wong
Professor of Education
Brown University
340 Brook Street
Box 1938
Providence, RI 02912
Kenneth_Wong@brown.edu
401.863.1486

Teaching Reference:
Nancy Jacobs
Professor of History
Box N, 202 Sharpe House
Brown University
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Providence, RI 02912
Nancy_Jacobs@brown.edu
401.863.9342