Consumer Cultures in Historical Perspective

Fascism and the Radical Right in Twentieth Century Europe

Education

 

Ph.D     M.Phil   M.A.     B.A.

Columbia University, 2000 Columbia University, 1992 Columbia University, 1990 Hamilton College, 1987

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Current Research

My research addresses questions of place and displacement within Modern French, European and Colonial History. My current book project investigates colonial dynamics and conflicts of mobility, as those played out in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco during the period of the French Protectorate (1912-1956). My first book, Enacting Brittany: Tourism and Culture in Provincial France (Ashgate 2012) examined the historical conversion of France’s westernmost region of Brittany into an arena of modern place promotion and tourist exchange. My second book was a co-edited collection entitled Place and Locality in Modern French History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), which analyzed the changing resonances and possibilities of local connection in modern and contemporary France. I have published articles in French Historical Studies, The Journal of Social History and other scholarly journals, as well as multiple chapters in edited collections.

 

I currently serve as North American Editor of the journal Modern and Contemporary France.
 

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Areas of Scholarly and Teaching Interest

 

• Modern European and World History

• History of Consumer Culture and Tourism

• French Colonial and Environmental History

• History of Fascism, Immigration and the European Radical Right

• War and Memory in the Twentieth Century

• Gender History               

Link to Patrick's Curriculum Vitae