ELIZABETH ANN FOSTER Department of History East Hall, Upper Campus Road Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 (617)-627-2312 elizabeth.foster@tufts.edu EDUCATION Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Ph.D. in History, 2006 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, A.B. summa cum laude in History, 1998 POSITIONS HELD Tufts University, Medford, MA Associate Professor of History, 2016-present Assistant Professor of History, 2009-2016 Bates College, Lewiston, ME Assistant Professor of History, 2007-2009 Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT Lecturer, Directed Studies and the Humanities, 2006-2007 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS ACLS Fellowship, 2016-2017 NEH Fellowship, 2016-2017 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Tufts University, 2015-2016 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2014 NEH Summer Stipend, 2014 Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar Award for research in France, 2012 Neubauer Faculty Fellow, Tufts University, 2010-2011 Grant-in-Aid, Tufts Faculty Research Awards Committee, 2010, 2017 Honorable Mention, Malcolm Bowie Article Prize, Society for French Studies, 2009 Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Writing Fellowship, 2006 Chateaubriand Scholarship, Awarded for research by the French Government, 2003-2004 Davis Merit Prize, Princeton Department of History, 2003-2004 Rollins Prize, Princeton Department of History, 2002-2004 Hoopes Prize for Senior Thesis Creating a Plus Grande France: The Exposition coloniale internationale, Paris 1931, Harvard College, 1998 Phi Beta Kappa, 1998
PUBLICATIONS Books African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church (Forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2019) Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013) *Winner: 2014 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society Articles and Book Chapters Expert in Humanity : An African Vision for the Catholic Church in Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, eds. Christianity and Human Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Theologies of Colonization : The Catholic Church and the Future of the French Empire in the 1950s in The Journal of Modern History, 87:2 (2015): 281-315. Entirely Christian and Entirely African : Catholic African Students in France in the Era of Independence in The Journal of African History 56:2 (2015): 239-259. Introduction: Decolonization and Religion in Modern French History co-authored with Giuliana Chamedes in French Politics, Culture &Society 33:2 (2015): 1-10. A Mission in Transition: Monsignor Joseph Faye and the Decolonization of the Catholic Church in Senegal in Owen White and J. P. Daughton, eds. In God s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 257-277. En mission il faut se faire à tout : les Sœurs de la Conception Immaculée de Castres au Sénégal, 1880-1900 trans. François Proulx, in Sarah Curtis, ed. Femmes Missionnaires: l autre visage de la mission. Histoire et Missions Chrétiennes 16 (2010): 73-108. An Ambiguous Monument: Dakar s Colonial Cathedral of the Souvenir Africain in French Historical Studies 32 (2009): 85-119. *Honorable Mention, Malcolm Bowie Prize, Society for French Studies (UK) 2009 Rethinking Republican Paternalism : William Ponty in French West Africa, 1890-1914 in Outre-Mers: Revue d Histoire 95 (2007): 211-233. Editing 2
Guest co-editor, Decolonization and Religion in Modern French History, Special Issue of French Politics, Culture &Society 33:2 (2015). Book Reviews Harry Gamble, Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900-1950 in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, forthcoming. Félix F. Germain, Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946-1974 in The Journal of African History, forthcoming. Eric T. Jennings, Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance in Journal of African Military History 1 (2017): 121-124. Kelly M. Duke Bryant, Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914 in the International Journal of African Historical Studies 49 (2016): 137-138. Kalala Ngalamulume, Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du- Sénégal, 1867-1920 in The American Historical Review 120 (2015): 1153-1154. Sarah A. Curtis, Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of French Empire in French History 26 (2012): 412-413. Alison S. Fell, ed. French and francophone women facing war/les femmes face à la guerre in Gender and History 22 (2010): 492-493. Joseph-Roger de Benoist, Histoire de l Eglise catholique au Sénégal du milieu du XVe siècle à l aube du troisième millénaire in Social Sciences and Missions 22 (2009): 324-325. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Department of History, Tufts University, 2009-present History 4: Empires and Nations History 54: Europe from the French Revolution to the Present History 59: Continent in Conflict: Europe s Twentieth Century History 64: Modern France and the French Empire History 96: France in World War Two History 159: The French Revolution History 160: France and Africa since the Eighteenth Century History 196: The First World War and its Legacy 1 Ph.D. committee 2 MA thesis supervisions; 6 MA thesis committees 7 graduate reading courses; 4 field examinations 3 Senior Thesis supervisions (2 winners of the Vida Allen Prize, 2011, 2018) 2 Senior Thesis committees Department of History, Bates College, 2007-2009 3
History 104: Europe, 1789 to the Present History 263: Totalitarian Europe: Nazi Germany and Stalin s USSR History 390K: Modern European Colonialism and its Critics History 390N: The First World War and the Making of the Twentieth Century History 457-8: 12 Senior Thesis Supervisions History S40: Introduction to Historical Methods Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 2006-2007 Directed Studies 003: Historical and Political Thought (year-long) Humanities 390b: Colonialism in the Modern Era McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University, 2004 Teaching Transcript Certification Completed Department of History, Princeton University, 2002 Teaching Assistant for Philip Nord, History 351: France 1815-Present American School of Paris, Saint-Cloud, France, 1998-1999 High School Teacher, History and English, grades 9-12 INVITED PRESENTATIONS A Church in Transition: African Clergy and the Decolonization of French Africa Walter Rodney Seminar, African Studies Center, Boston Univ., Mar. 12, 2018 Workshop on Global History and Catholicism in the Modern Era Cushwa Ctr. for the Study of American Catholicism at Notre Dame, Feb. 16, 2018 Panelist: How Did We Get Here? Boston Based Historians on our Current Moment Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? A Tufts University Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, Jan. 23, 2017 Antislavery, Catholic Charity, and the End of French Empire in sub-saharan Africa 1950-1970 at The End of Empire: European Popular Responses International Conference, Birmingham, UK, Jan. 11-13, 2017 Commentary on Rachel Eva Schley, The Abandoned Muslim Consistory: Religion, Rule and Legal Identity in French Algeria Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston Univ., April 25, 2016 Decolonizing Faith: Catholics and the End of Empire in French sub-saharan Africa Center for the Humanities at Tufts, January 26, 2016 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Panel on Faith in Empire at the French Colonial Historical Society Conference, Binghamton, May 7, 2015 4
Entirely Christian and Entirely African : Catholic African Students in France in the Era of Independence Global France: The History Workshop at Reid Hall, Paris, July 10, 2014 Completely Catholic and Completely African : Francophone Catholic African Students and Africa s Future in the 1950s Walter Rodney Seminar, African Studies Center, Boston Univ., November 18, 2013 Radio/Podcast Interview: New Books in French Studies (Discussions with Scholars of France and the Francophone World about their New Books) on Faith in Empire, June 26, 2013 New Directions in Anglophone and Francophone African Literature and Culture African Studies Program and Department of French and Francophone Studies Pennsylvania State University, February 27, 2013 Theologies of Colonization: Catholics Debate French Africa s Future in the 1950s New Histories of Transnational Christianity: A Workshop Harvard University, February 7, 2013 Decolonizing Faith: Catholic Missions and the End of Empire in French West Africa Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 31, 2012 Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900 Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 3, 2008 Civilization, Custom and Conflict in the Casamance: Catholic Missionaries and Colonial Administrators in Interwar Senegal Yale Council on African Studies Seminar Series, New Haven, November 4, 2005 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Making the Church Universal: Alioune Diop, Africa, and Vatican II American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Jan. 3-6, 2019 Participant, Roundtable on New Directions in the History of Christianity in Africa African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2018 Slavery and Conversion on the Edge of French Empire: The Case of Téné Sako in West Africa, 1890s-1920s Western Society of French History, Portland, ME, November 1-3, 2018 Echanges de vues: Les missionnaires catholiques français et l Islam en AOF dans les années 1950 Colloque international La mission dans tous ses états. Circulation, rencontres, échanges et hybridités, Université de Québec à Montréal, June 9-10, 2016 5
Participant, Roundtable on Teaching Decolonization Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Nashville, March 4-6, 2016 An African Church? Decolonizing Catholicism in French Sub-Saharan Africa, 1919-1967 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 7-10, 2016 (Panel Organizer: Catholicism in Motion: Constructing a Global Church 1600s- 1900s) The Politics of Personalism: African Catholics and the Future of Africa in the 1950s African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 19-22, 2015 Theologies of Colonization : The Catholic Church and the Future of the French Empire in the 1950s Boston Area French History Group, Cambridge, April 12, 2015 Foe or Friend? Catholics and the Specter of Islam at the End of French Empire in West Africa American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, Jan. 2-5, 2015 Asking Questions: Catholic African Priests and the End of Empire in French Sub-Saharan Africa Britain, France & Africa: Legacies, Entanglements and Cultural Trajectories of Decolonization and Beyond, UCL, London, June 8, 2014 A Catholic Future? The Church and the End of French Empire in West Africa, 1945-1960 Postwar Empires in Africa: New Perspectives, UW Madison, April 10-11, 2014 African Catholics between Colony and Nation: the Case of Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo in Guinée, 1951-1971 2013 Africa Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 28-31, 2013 Is Christianity a Custom? Conversion and Administrative Rule in AOF, 1887-1935 Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Los Angeles, March 22-24, 2012 (Panel Co-organizer: Wrestling with Custom : French Approaches to Religious and Cultural Difference across the Empire, late 19 th /early 20 th centuries ) Working in a Man s World: The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of Castres in Colonial Senegal, 1880-1900 Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Charleston, February 10-12, 2011 Rivalry in Translation: Catholicism, Islam and French Rule of the North-West Sereer Boston Area French History Group, Cambridge, January 23, 2011 Preserving Difference: Rejecting Republican Anti-Clerical Laws in French West Africa, 1901-1907 Conference of the Council for European Studies, Montréal, April 15-17, 2010 (Panel Organizer: France and Islam in Comparative Perspective ) 6
The End of a Mission? Race and the Decolonization of the Church in Senegal French Colonial Historical Society Conference, San Francisco, May 26-30, 2009 (Panel Co-organizer: Race, Religion, and Decolonization in the French Empire ) The Sisters Mission: Nuns, Catholic Society, and Anticlericalism in Senegal, 1880-1905 Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, St. Louis, March 26-28, 2009 Church, State, and Patriotism in the Colonies: Catholic Missionaries, Military Recruitment, and the Civilizing Mission in Senegal, 1914-1918 Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, New Brunswick, April 3-5, 2008 (Panel Organizer: Patriotism and Citizenship in the French Empire, 1914-1940 ) A Colonial Rivalry: Church and State on Senegal s Petite Côte in the 1890s American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 4-7, 2007 Catholics in the Republic s Empire: The Catholic Mission and Electoral Politics in the Four Communes of Senegal, 1880-1905 French Colonial History Society Conference, Dakar, May 17-20, 2006 Cooperation and Conflict: The Catholic Mission and the Colonial Administration in Interwar Senegal French Colonial History Society Conference, Dakar, May 17-20, 2006 (Panel Co-organizer: Interwar Colonialism from West Africa to Paris ) The Contested Church: Dakar s Colonial Cathedral of the Souvenir Africain Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Urbana-Champaign, April 20-22, 2006 (Panel Organizer: Shaping a Colonial Capital: Cultural and Urban Developments in Dakar, 1920-1960 ) Panels Chaired/Commentary Commentary/Chair on panel Nuns and Empire: from French West Africa to the Ottoman Near East, 1850-1950 Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Washington, DC, April 20-22, 2017 Commentary on panel Schooling and the State: Education and Colonial Rule in Twentieth- Century Senegal African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 19-22, 2015 Chair/Modératrice for panel Religion and Missionaries/Religion et Missionnaires French Colonial History Society Conference, Binghamton, May 7-9, 2015 Chair for panel Imagining the Socialist World After Stalin Workshop: Transnational Contacts in the Socialist World, Tufts CHAT, March 27, 2015 Commentary on panel Religious Toleration and Religious Control in Early French Algeria 7
Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Montréal, April 24-27, 2014 Commentary on panel Religion, Law, and Gender Workshop: Testing the Boundaries of French Colonial History, 1870-1960 Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, August 28, 2013 Commentary on panel Emerging Notions of Colonial Accountability: Citizenship, Voting, and International Oversight in the French Empire, 1940-1960 Society for French Historical Studies Meeting, Cambridge, April 4-6, 2013 Commentary on paper Imperial Expansion and International Society 10 th Harvard Graduate Conference on Int l History, Cambridge, March 12-13, 2010 PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Service to the field: Editorial Board, French Historical Studies, 2015-2018 Panelist/evaluator for NEH, 2017 Tenure/Promotion Reviews 2017, 2018 Outside examiner, Ph.D. Thesis of Rachel Kantrowitz, NYU, April 21, 2015 Local/Program Committee, Society for French Historical Studies 2013 meeting, 2010-2013 Treasurer, French Colonial Historical Society, 2008-2010 Manuscript Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, University of Nebraska Press, American Historical Review; French Colonial History; French Historical Studies; French Politics, Culture & Society; Journal of Urban History; Journal of West African History; Int l Journal of African Historical Studies University Service: Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, Tufts University, 2015-present Graduate Committee, Tufts Department of History, 2015-2016, 2018- Transfer of Credit representative, Tufts Department of History, 2014-2016 Pre-major Advisor, Tufts University, 2010-2012; 2014-2016 Academic Review Board, Tufts University, 2010-2015 (World Civilizations Chair, 2010-2012) International Relations Curriculum Committee, Tufts University, 2010-2012 Curriculum Committee, Tufts Department of History, 2011-2012 Assessment Committee, Tufts Department of History, 2011-2012 Undergraduate Education Committee, Tufts Department of History, 2009-2011 Outside Examiner, Bates College Honors Senior Thesis Program, 2010 Committee on the Evaluation of Teaching, Bates College, 2008-2009 Faculty Liaison, Women s Lacrosse Team, Bates College, 2007-2009 Freshman Advisor, Branford College, Yale University, 2006-2007 French Interpreter, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, New Haven, CT, 2005-2007 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS African Studies Association American Historical Association Boston Area French History Group Center for European Studies, Harvard University 8
French Colonial Historical Society (Treasurer 2008-2010) Society for French Historical Studies 9