Curriculum Vitae
Michael Joseph Mulvey
Education:
Ph.D. candidate, History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., History, May 2006, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., History and European Studies, May 2003, The University of Vermont
Dissertation:
France’s Concrete Frontier: Gender, Family, and Social Policy in Suburban High-Rise Communities, 1945-1975
Teaching Experience:
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2004-May 2007
Teaching Assistant, Lycée René Cassin, Montfort sur meu, France, September 2003-June 2004
Languages:
French: fluent
German: good working knowledge
Haitian Kreyòl: fair speaking
Spanish: fair working knowledge
Competitive Fellowships/Grants:
Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Fellowship, Doris G. Quinn Foundation, August 2009-May 2010
Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Republic, Centre for Social History of the 20th Century, University of Paris: 1, August 2007-May 2008
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2007-May 2008
Mowry Dissertation Research Grant, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 2007
Smith Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2007
Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Council for European Studies at Columbia University, Summer 2006
Research Fellowship, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2005 and May 2006
Competitive Awards:
John L. Snell Memorial Award, Best Seminar Paper in European History for “Desperate Homemakers in a Parisian Public Housing Estate: Representation and Experience in Sarcelles, 1954-1974,” European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, November 2006
Amos E. Simpson Award, Best Conference Paper in European History for “What’s So Funny About Rabbi Jacob? Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) and the Politics of French Comedic Cinema,” European History Section of Southern Historical Association, November 2009
Outstanding Graduating Senior in European Studies Award, The University of Vermont, May 2003
Ruth Boelsen Baird Award for Excellence in History, The University of Vermont, May 2003
Competitive Language Training Grants:
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German, summer 2008
FLAS Fellowship, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German, summer 2007
German Academic Exchange Service Grant, summer 2007
FLAS Fellowship, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, French, summer 2006
Professional Experience/Service:
Secretary, Carolina French Studies Seminar, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2006-2007
Bi-Annual Workshop Organizer, “Gender, Politics, and Culture in Europe and Beyond,” The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2005 to May 2007
Original Member, The UNC Working Group in Gender History, January 2005-May 2007
Executive Editor, The UVM History Review, Phi Alpha Theta Best Student Journal Award, Department of History, The University of Vermont, August 2002 to May 2003
Registrar’s Internship, Title Research, Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, Massachusetts, summer 2001-2003
Resident Adviser, Department of Residential Life, The University of Vermont, January 2000-May 2003
Conference Papers:
“What’s So Funny About Rabbi Jacob? Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) and the Politics of French Comedic Cinema,” Film, History, and the Politics of Perception, European Section of the Southern Historical Society, Louisville, November 2009.
“The Problem that had a Name: Desperate Housewives and Mental Malady in Parisian Grands Ensembles, 1962-1976,” Panel Organizer, Squatters, Real Estate Agents, and Housewives: New Perspectives on Housing in France, Society of French Historical Studies Annual Conference, St. Louis, March 2009.
“A Gendered History of Parisian Public Housing Estates,” 2007-2008 Chateaubriand Workshop, The University of Chicago Center in Paris, France, April 2008.
“What does a Grand Ensemble mean to Frenchmen?: Mapping Sarcelles at the National and Local Level, 1954-1965,” Paris-Banlieues, Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France Conference, University of Reading, United Kingdom, September 2007.
“Conveying and Recovering a Gendered Social Type: Jules Vallès, Heterophilia, and May ‘68,” Gendered Framings of Twentieth-Century Activism, Gender, Experience, and Memory, 18th-20th Centuries: A Transatlantic Workshop, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2007.
“Mental Malady in a Parisian Public Housing Estate, 1954-1974,” Triangle Graduate History Conference, North Carolina State University, February 2006.
Article in Preparation for Submission:
“Her Housing is an Utter Horror to Her”: Adaptation, Alienation, and Women’s Needs in Parisian High-Rise Communities”
Professional Organizations:
American Historical Association
American Political Science Association
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
European Section of the Southern Historical Association
Society of French Historical Studies
Urban History Association