RACHEL KANTROWITZ

Curriculum Vitae

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Department of Education 98 Lorimer Avenue0
Brown University Providence, RI 029060
Box 1938, 340 Brook Street rachel_kantrowitz@brown.edu0
Providence, RI 02912 323.350.29410

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

EDUCATION
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New York University, New York, NY, 2015.

Ph.D. History, New York University, New York, NY. 0

Dissertation title: So That Tomorrow Would Be Better for Us: Developing

French-Funded Catholic Schools in Dahomey and Senegal, 1946-1975.
Committee: Frederick Cooper (chair), Herrick Chapman, Jonathan Zimmerman (University
of Pennsylvania), Gregory Mann (Columbia University), and Elizabeth Foster (Tufts
University).

cole Normale Suprieure, Paris, France.

Pensionnaire trangre, visiting researcher. Fall 2012-Spring 2013.

Doctoral Fellow, Remarque Institute. Spring 2013.

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2006.

B.A. History Major, Hispanic Studies Minor.

Phi Beta Kappa.
Honors in History.
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles

A Nation in Miniature: Catholic Civism and Post-Independence West African Schools

Invited to resubmit, The Journal of African History.

Triangulating Between the Church, State, and Postcolony: Cooprants in Independent West Africa
Cahiers dtudes africaines, LVI (1-2) 221-222 (2016): 219-241.
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Manuscript in Preparation

Education for All: Decolonization, Religion, and Development in Francophone West Africa.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

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2015-2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities. Comparative and
International Education, Department of Education and Cogut Center for the
Humanities. 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. New
York, NY.0
2013-2015 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University. New York, NY.
2012-2013 Jeanne Marandon Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Socit des
Professeurs Franais et Francophones dAmrique (SPFFA). 0
2012-2013 Doctoral Fellow, Remarque Institute at cole Normale Suprieure. Paris,
France.0
2012-2013 Pensionnaire trangre, cole Normale Suprieure. Paris, France. 0
2012 Summer Travel Award, History Department, New York University. New
York, NY. 0
2009-2012 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University. New York, NY.
2006 Phi Beta Kappa, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, NY.
2006 Honors in History, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, NY.0

INVITED TALKS
2015 Database Management and Digital Workflow. Seminar on Archival and Historical
Research. Center for Jewish History, New York, NY. May 21.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY0
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Conference Organized

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

Workshop Organized

2015 Teaching African History. Columbia University. New York, NY. January 30.
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Panels Organized0

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

Historical Association. New York, NY. January 2-5. 0

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

Association. Indianapolis, IN. November 20-23. 0

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 Presented
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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 2-5.0

2014 Integrating Histories: Methodological Insights from Interviewing Students on

Education in Post-1945 Senegal and Benin. African Studies Association.
Indianapolis, IN. November 20-23.0

2014 A French School in Every Village: Postwar French Cultural Politics in West Africa.
Society for French Historical Studies. Montreal, QC, Canada. April 24-27.0

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 10-11.0
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2013 Developing Education: Goals and Outcomes of French-Funded Catholic Schools
in Benin and Senegal, 1946-1975. African Studies Association. Baltimore, MD.
November 21-24.0

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. 0
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2011 Transforming Empire: Education in Post-War French West Africa. African
Studies Association. Washington, DC. November 17-19.0
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2011 Debating French Christian Education in West Africa After World War II. French
Colonial Historical Society. Toronto, ON, Canada. June 2-4. 0
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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.

TEACHING0
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Brown University

Decolonizing African Education: Student Activism and Social Change, 1960s-

present. (Cross-listed with Africana Studies). Fall 2016, Spring 2016.
Comparative Education: International Trends and Local Perspectives. Fall 2015, Spring
2017.

New York University

Teaching and Learning Certificate 1 and 2. Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.0
Aiding the Sick, Poor, and Hungry: African Development in Debate. Summer
2012. 0
Africa Since 1940. (Teaching Assistant). Professor Frederick Cooper. Fall 2011. 0

France

English Language Assistant, Lyce Fabre, Carpentras, France. Fall 2007-Spring 2008.0

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Fluent French. 0
Fluent Spanish.0
Intermediate Yoruba. 0
Beginning Wolof.0

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
African Studies Association.
French Colonial Historical Society.
American Historical Association.
Phi Beta Kappa.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016-present Reviewer for The Journal of African History.

2016-present Honors Thesis advised, The Education of Immigrant Youth in France, Katya
Barrett, Brown University.

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

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

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