Sally Debra Charnow 516-463-5609 (w) 917-544-8913 sally.charnow@hofstra.edu
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New York University, Ph.D. in Modern European History, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Department of History, 1999. Dissertation: Theatre Transformed, Modernism and Cultural Policy in Paris, 1886-1906 under the direction of Jerrold Seigel, Tony Judt, and Molly Nolan. Historian Chair, Department of the Department of History, 2020 – Present. Professor, Department of History, 2012 – Present. Associate Professor, Department of History, 2005 – 2012. Assistant Professor, Department of History, 1999-2005. Museum Educator, The Jewish Museum (NYC), in conjunction with the following exhibitions: Ben Shahn, Common Man / Mythic Vision, 1999, Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950; Building Bridges: African Americans and American Jews in America. 199092. Books
Publications
Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France (Routledge, 2021, paperback 2023). Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On, editor, (Peter Lang Publishers, 2021). Theatre, Politics and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity (Palgrave, 2005). In process: Walking Marseille: At the Crossroads, then and now Articles Forum: “Digital Humanities -- Ways Forward” co-editor and wrote “Introduction” with Jeff Horn, in Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, winter 2023. “French Jewish Identity, 1898-1931: The Story of Edmond Fleg,” Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other (Wilfred-Laurier University Press, 2014). Invited. Single-blinded peer review.
“Imagining a New Jerusalem: Edmond Fleg and Inter-War French Ecumenism,” French History, (Oxford University Press, December 2013). Invited. Single-blinded peer review. “French Jewish Nationalism in the Wake of the Dreyfus Affair: The Story of Edmond Fleg,” Revising Dreyfus: Art and Law (Brill Press, 2013). Invited. Single-blinded peer review. “Critical Thinking: Scholarly Readings of the Diary” in Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory, eds. Barbara Kirsheblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, (Indiana University Press, 2012). Invited. Single-blinded peer review. “Introduction” with Eliza Jane Reilly, in Performance, Politics, and History, Radical History Review, Spring 2007, and co-guest editor of the volume. “Théâtre en Pleine Air: Modern Theatre, Regionalism, and the Search for the Authentic in Finde-Siècle France,” Historical Reflections, Réflexions Historiques, summer 2006. Double-blinded peer review. “Importing Ideas of Nationhood: The Problems of Teaching Nationalism and National Identity in the Middle East,” with Magnus Bernhardsson in National Myths in the Middle East: Representations, Revisions, and Critiques, Radical History Review, Spring 2003, and co-guest editor of the volume. “Commercial Culture and Modernist Theatre in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: André Antoine and the Théâtre Libre,” Radical History Review, Spring 2000. Double-blinded peer review. "Seasons of the Soul," in Women in Jewish Culture: Active Voices, (University of Illinois Press, 1995). Invited. Double-blinded peer review. Selected Book Reviews American Historical Review, Women of Faith and Religious Identity in Fin-de-Siècle France by Emily Machen (Vol 126 / No. 1, March 2021). Archives Juives, The Right to Difference, French Universalism & the Jews by Maurice Samuels (Number 53/2, 2020). French History, Carnal Spirit, The Revolutions of Charles Péguy by Matthew W. Maguire (Vol. 34, Number 1, March 2020). American Historical Review, Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the “Hervay Affair” of 1904, Bigotry in the French Alps by Alison ROSE (October 2018). Modern and Contemporary France, The Gospel According to Renan, Reading, Writing, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France by Robert D. Priest, (December 2015). H-France. Alfred Jarry by Jill Fell, Vol 11, No. 111, (May 2011). 2
Canadian Theatre Review, When Broadway was the Runway: Theatre, Fashion, and American Culture by Marlis Schweitzer (Summer 2011). French Culture and Society: Théåtres en capitales. Naissance de la société du spectacle à Paris, Berlin, Londres et Vienne, 1860-1914 by Christophe Charle (Fall 2011). H-France, The Melodramatic Thread: Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France, by James R. Lehning, (March 2008). History: Reviews of New Books: The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe, by Robert Goldstein (ed), (2008). Recent Guest Lectures Guest lecture: French and Jewish from the French Revolution to the Second World War, Michigan State University, March 16, 2023. Book talk: Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France, Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris, France, June, 9, 2022. Guest lecture: Edmond Fleg, the Second World War, and the Holocaust, Towson University, April 26, 2022. Book talk: Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France, University of California, San Diego, January 10, 2022. Book launch, Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France, Issues in Judaism Lecture Series, Hofstra University, November 17, 2021. Book launch, Artistic Expressions, and the Great War, A Hundred Years On, Hofstra University, September 23, 2021. (Organized by the Cultural Center) Edmond Fleg: Writing French Jewish Ecumenism in Interwar France, Paris, GSRL (Groupe sociétés religious laicités), École Pratique des Hautes Études, December 2, 2020. Writing Cultural History: Edmond Fleg and the Great War, Jewish Studies Graduate Program, ParisSorbonne, February 12, 2020. Farmers & Poets: Feeding the Nation and Writing the War, France 1914-1918 (with Dr. Nicole Dombrowski-Risser), Blue Hill Library, Blue Hill, Maine, July 18, 2019. Edmond Fleg: Writing French Jewish Ecumenism after the Great War, Histories’ Modern Visions: A Colloquium in Honor of Molly Nolan, NYU Berlin, June 2018. Jewish Literature and French Ecumenism After the Great War, Cal Poly, January 29, 2015.
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French Jews and Ecumenism during and after the Great War (part of the series Battlefields and Home Fronts: World War I and Modern Life), Towson University, Nov. 18, 2014. Imagining a New Jerusalem: Edmond Fleg and French Ecumenism, Williams College, February 20, 2014. I also taught a writing seminar for upper-level history students. Théâtre Populaire ou Théatre du Peuple: French Theatre and Democracy in the late Nineteenth Century, Brown University, February 10, 2008, Selected Conferences Le chant nouveau: Edmond Fleg and Vladimir Jankélévitch Imagine Jewishness during and after the War, Society for French Historical Studies, Hempstead, NY, March 2024. Discussant, Fading Memories and Distortions: The Threat to Historical Accuracy in the Holocaust, Society for French Historical Studies, Detroit, MI, March 2023. My Zion, My France: Edmond Fleg, the Poet and his Legacy, Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 18 – 20, 2022. Chair /comment for panel: Racism through the Prism of the United States, Society for French Historical Studies, Charlotte, NC, March 24-26, 2022. Co-organizer and co-convener, Society for French Historical Studies, Digital Humanities: Ways Forward, A Virtual Conference in Honor of David Kammerling Smith, March 20, 2021. Edmond Fleg's Le Juif du Pape (1925): Reformation Politics and Jewish Mysticism Played Out in an Interwar Drama, Israeli Association of Italian Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, February 24-25, 2020. Conference Director, Artistic Expressions, and the Great War, A Hundred Years On, Hofstra University, November 7-9, 2018. Chair and discussant for panel: Aristocratic Masculinities at the Fin-de-Siècle, Western Society for French History, Portland, ME, November 1-3, 2018. Chair and discussant for panel: Transnational Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 8-10, 2018 Chair for panel: The Cultural Impact of Vichy France, Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., April, 2017. Edmond Fleg: Writing French Jewish Ecumenism after the Great War, Memory of the Great War Conference, Southern Alabama University, March 2017. Discussant for panel: Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Politics and Culture, A panel in honor of Carl E. Schorske, Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Nashville, March 3-6, 2016.
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Edmond Fleg’s La Maison du Bon Dieu: Ecumenism and the Great War, Perspectives on the Great War, Queen Mary, University of London, August 1-4, 2014. “A rabbi, a priest, and a minister were billeted in same house during the Great War…”: Edmond Fleg and Ecumenism during The Great War,’ Minorities and the Great War Conference, Chester, UK, April 13-15, 2014. Edmond Fleg and Ecumenism in Inter-War France, Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, December 16-19, 2012. French Jewish Identity, 1898-1931: The Story of Edmond Fleg, European Identities, Guelph University (Ontario, Canada), October 2010. Commercial Practices, Popular Forms and Modern Theatre in Nineteenth Century France with Carolyn Johnston, French Historical Studies, Paris, France, June 2004. Importing Ideas of Nationhood with Magnus Bernhardsson, Nineteenth-Century Knowledges, Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, George Mason University, April 2002. Grants, Honors and Awards
Hofstra College Faculty Research Grant, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007-2023. Summer 2011, Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University 2005-2006 Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarship for Theatre Politics and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity, Hofstra University, May 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2001. Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research, American Historical Association, 2000. New York University, Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-95. New York University, Remarque Chair Fellowship in Modern European History, 1993-94. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Modern European Studies, 1992-93. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Modern European Studies, 1991-92. Professional Affiliations
* Co-President, The Society for French Historical Studies, 2023-2024; Co-president, 2020-2021; member Executive Board 2020- present. * Editorial Board, French History, Oxford University Press, 2011-2023. * New York Area French History Group, on-going * American Historical Association * Western Society for French History
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