Faculty and Staff

Tamara Chaplin

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

309 Gregory Hall MC 466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
Cell: 001 217 979 3990 / Email: tchaplin@illinois.edu

Employment

2008-present:    Associate Professor of Modern European History,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2002-2008:       Assistant Professor of Modern European History,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Education

Ph.D. Modern European History, September 2002, Rutgers: The State University of NJ,
New Brunswick, NJ, USA (1995-2002).
Dissertation: “Embodying the Mind: French Philosophers on Television, 1951-1999”
Advisors: Bonnie G. Smith (Director), Joan W. Scott, John Gillis
Major Field: Modern Europe
Minor Fields: History of Gender and Sexuality
Cultural and Intellectual (unexamined)

B.A. History, Honors with Great Distinction, September 1995, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada (1991-1995).

Major Fellowships and Awards

2007-2004      UIUC Summer Research Fellowships, Urbana, IL.

Spring   2005   Visiting Scholar, Institute of French Studies, NYU, New York City, NY.
June     2004     UIUC Summer Research Fellowship, Urbana, IL.
Spring   2004     Humanities Released Time, UIUC Research Board, Urbana, IL

2000-2001   Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Fellowship for Research in Ethics, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, USA.
1998-2000  FCAR Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche, Doctoral Fellowship, Quebec, Canada.
1995-2000  Excellence Doctoral Fellowship, (five years, one declined) Rutgers University, NJ.

1995-1997 FCAR Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche, Masters Fellowship, Quebec, Canada.
1998-1999 Bourse Chateaubriand Doctoral Research Fellowship, Government of France.

Publications

Article: “From Text to Image: French Philosophy and the Television Book Show, 1953-1968,” French Historical Studies, Vol. 28:4 (Fall 2005), 629-659.

Forthcoming:

Book: Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Article: “Embodying the Mind: Philosophy on French Television” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2006).

Article: “Une histoire brève des intellectuels à la télévision : le cas de Michel Foucault,” in Roger Chartier, et. al., Foucault Aujourd’hui: IXes  Rencontres INA-Sorbonne (Paris: INA/Sorbonne, 2006)

Article: “La Philosophie à la télévision: Mission Impossible?” PhiloMag (January 2006)
In Process:

Article: "From Text to Image: French Philosophy and the Television Book Show, 1953-1968," French Historical Studies, Vol. 28:4 (Fall 2005): 629-659.

Article: "Gender and the Politics of Sex: The French "Sexual Revolution" Reexamined," for the Journal of Women's History.

Book Reviews

Review of Jean K. Chalaby, The de Gaulle Presidency and the Media: Statism and Public Communications (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002). French Politics, Culture and Society (Fall 2004) 161-165.

Review of Judith Surkis, Sexing the Citizen (Cornell University Press, 2006), Gender and History, Spring 2008.

Selected Conferences and Papers

“Un baiser un peu fou, un premier rendezvous: Sex Education and the French Media after May ‘68”, (Invited Speaker) Modern French History Conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, England (forthcoming, January 2009).

“‘Ce n’est pas Mai ‘68 mais l’ambience y est’ Sexual Education on Television,” (Paper) 40th anniversary conference of the events of May 1968 organized by Dr. Julian Jackson of Queen Mary College, London.  May 68: Forty Years On/ Mai ’68 Quarante ans après: Paris, France (May, 2008).

“ ‘Unbutton Your Mind as Often as Your Fly’: Sex and the Student Revolutions of May ’68,” (Invited Speaker) France Chicago Center, University of Chicago (May, 2008).

“Manufacturing Foucault: Television, Ethics and the Politics of Intellectual Consumption,” (Paper) Social Theory Forum Conference, “A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Discipline in the New Millenium,” University of Massachusetts, Boston (April 2008).

 “French Philosophers on Television: A Case Study,” (Paper) Rethinking Television Histories, Kings College, University of London (April, 2007).

“Une histoire brève des intellectuals à la télévision: le cas de Michel Foucault” (Invited Speaker) IXèmes Rencontres Ina-Sorbonne « Foucault aujourd’hui », November 2004.

Teaching

(List of Excellent Teachers, UIUC Student Evaluations, Urbana, IL, 2002-2005).

Undergraduate: Hist 142/3: Western Civ 1660 to the Present, Enrollment 450, TA staff of 10; Hist 200: Intro to Hist. Interp. Special Topics on: European Popular Culture and Mass Media; 20th C Revolutions; Human Rights. Hist 290: Directed Readings: Vichy France. Hist 314: European History 1939 to the Present: Contemporary France. Hist 498:  Research and Writing Seminar, Special Topics on: Body and Sexuality in Modern European History, Mass Media.

Graduate: Hist 552: Intellectuals and the Media, Hist 551: Core Course: Probs. in Modern European History, Hist 478: Research Seminar: Women, Gender and Sexuality, 1945 to the Present; Body and Sexuality in Modern European History.

Professional Activities

Chair: Graduate Placement Committee, 2005-2006 UIUC training graduate students on the job market; Graduate Placement Committee, 2003-2005; History Web Committee, 2004-2006 Design and Upkeep of UIUC History Dept. Website; Guest Lecturer, 2002-2005 Using Power-point in the History Classroom / History as Professional Practice / Using Unconventional Archives

References Available on Request