Carolyn Dean
John Hay Professor of International Studies:
Interim Director, Waston Institute for International Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3596
Carolyn_Dean@Brown.EDU
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Biography
Carolyn Dean's recent publications include: The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2004); "Intellectual History and the Prominence of 'Things that Matter'," Rethinking History 4 (2004): 535-45; "Recent French Discourses on Stalinism, Nazism, and 'Exorbitant' Jewish Memory," History & Memory, 18 (2006): 43-85; "Against Grandiloquence: 'Victim's Culture' and Jewish Memory," in The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory, eds. Warren Brenkman, Peter Gordon, Samuel Moyn, and Dirk Moses (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008); and Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2010).
Interests
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Awards
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center Residency, July 2003.
William H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor, 1999-2002.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1997-98.
Barrett Hazeltine Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, 1997.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Professor of the Year in Rhode Island, 1996.
J. William Fulbright Research Scholarship (France), 1994-95.
The William G. McLoughlin Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, Brown University, 1992-93.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1990-91.
Harvard University Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-91.
Faculty Honor Role for Excellence in Teaching, Northwestern University, 1989-90.
University of California Regents Fellowship, 1985-86.
Affiliations
American Historical Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Teaching
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History
Modern Gender History & the History of Sexuality
Genocide Studies
Web Links
- Carolyn Dean named R.I. Professor of Year
- Cultural historian Carolyn Dean to address new students Sept. 2
