Alice L Conklin
Biographic Data
| ID | 192367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice L Conklin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice L |
| FAMILY NAME | Conklin |
| SIGNATURE | CONKLIN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Race in the Modern World: An Intellectual History
Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from…
Mentoring au Sens Large
Mentorship is one of the most rewarding but least rewarded aspects of the professoriate. There are countless undergraduate teaching awards at most institutions of higher learning, and the three North American learned societies in French history grant a number of book and article awards; in addition, the Western Society for French Historical Studies has recently introduced its Tyler Stovall Mission Prize for demonstrated commitment to achieving eq…
Le musée permanent des Colonies et le musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro: Une vocation coloniale partagée dans les années 1930
En 1931, au Trocadéro comme à la Porte Dorée, deux institutions muséales sont en travaux. La première, le musée d'Ethnographie, futur musée de l'Homme, est en pleine rénovation sous l'égide de Paul Rivet et de Georges Henri Rivière. La seconde, le musée permanent des Colonies, doit ouvrir ses portes à l'issue de l'Exposition coloniale. Si leurs projets diffèrent, entre discours ethnographique pour l'un, et discours historique, culturel et artisti…
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
Resistance in Postwar France: Five New and Noteworthy Histories
Historians of modern Europe have long seen the tragic events of the Second World War in France as a major caesura in the history of that nation. But eighty years later, do the legacies of the war still help us understand postwar France and its political divisions? The five superb books under review make a strong case that the fracturing experiences of defeat, Vichy and the Resistance shaped some of the most important subsequent developments in Fr…
Nothing Is Less Universal than the Idea of Race’: Alfred Métraux, American Social Science and Unesco’s Anti-Racist Campaign in 1950s Paris
In 1950, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Métraux, a student of Marcel Mauss, was appointed to head a new Race Bureau at UNESCO in Paris whose mission was to combat racism with the tools of social science. Métraux had worked in the Americas since the 1930s, and his appointment allowed French social scientists to join the global struggle to remove prejudice ‘from the minds of men’. To what extent did French scholars help shape Métraux’s efforts,…
Le musée de l'Homme et la question de la race à la fin des années 1930: Focus
Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, le musée de l’Homme a développé un projet scientifique et pédagogique au sein duquel la dimension antiraciste était centrale. Mais, paradoxalement, il défendait une partition de l’humanité en races et même une hiérarchie raciale, qui ont depuis été rejetées par la science. Ce paradoxe s’explique par le fait que le musée se fondait sur des prémisses scientifiques faux et qu’il entendait, à tort, séparer la « vraie scienc…
In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, int…
From the Study to the Field: Ethnologists in the Empire
H. Chapman, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic
AHR Conversation: Museums, History, and the Public in a Global Age
Since 2006, the AHR has published eleven “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The aim is to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high lev…
Rebecca Rogers, A Frenchwoman's Imperial Stor: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2013
Emprunts transnationaux et constitution du Musée de l’Homme
Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, la plupart des grands musées d’ethnographie occidentaux furent rénovés et restructurés, grâce à une volonté nouvelle d’instruire le grand public sur les régions lointaines du monde. Ces musées avaient été créés à la fin du xixe siècle, au moment où la conquête impériale, les fiertés nationales et la professionnalisation de l’anthropologie encourageaient la collecte scientifique des artéfacts des sociétés dites « primiti…
In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950
L'anthropologie française entre sciences coloniales et décolonisation (1880–1960)
L'anthropologie française entre sciences coloniales et décolonisation (1880–1960)." Modern & Contemporary France, 19(4), pp. 530–531
Colonisations
Pascale Barthélémy, Africaines et diplômées à l'époque coloniale (1918-1957): (Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010) 345 pages
L’excellent ouvrage de Pascale Barthélémy constitue un nouveau titre, très bienvenu, dans la floraison d’études dévolues à ce que Gregory Mann a appelé « la relation contrainte particulière » entre la France et l’Afrique. Pascale Barthélémy s’est penchée sur la petite minorité d’Africaines - à peine un millier au total - issues de la fédération d’Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) et formées par les Français pour devenir sages-femmes, infirmière…
Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire
Book Review| April 01 2007 Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (2): 305–332. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alice L. Conklin; Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern…
The Ties that Bind? European Working Women and the Shifting Boundaries of Sex, Race and State
Introduction: Writing Colonial Histories
In 1941 the Vichy government commissioned Jeu de l’Empire Francais, a double-sided, brightly colored board game for children, each side with a slightly different ‘‘course de l’Empire francais,’’ played on a lavishly illustrated world map (fig. 1). The rules stated that ‘‘the Marshal offers a voyage around the world to two French youths, passing through the colonies of the empire and using Frenchmaritime and aviation lines.’’ The players left from…
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
Civil Society, Science, and Empire in Late Republican France: The Foundation of Paris's Museum of Man
In 1938 an important civic institution for the support of science opened in Paris: the Musée de l'homme, a state-of-the-art anthropological museum under the direction of Paul Rivet. From the outset, there was more to the museum than met the eye. A socialist and humanist, Rivet used both bones and objects to try to convince the public of the equality of all peoples and cultures. Behind these displays lay research facilities designed to lure practi…
Le colonialisme: Un Dérapage De l'Idéal Éducatif
Conklin Alice L. Le colonialisme : un dérapage de l'idéal éducatif?. In: Communications, 72, 2002. L'idéal éducatif, sous la direction de François Flahault et Jean-Marie Schaeffer. pp. 159-174
Boundaries Unbound: Teaching French History as Colonial History and Colonial History as French History
Research Article| April 01 2000 Boundaries Unbound: Teaching French History as Colonial History and Colonial History as French History Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (2): 215–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-2-215 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
French Culture(s) After Empire
Post-Colonial Cultures in France, Alec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney, eds. (London: Routledge, 1997) Jean-Loup Amselle, Vers un multiculturalisme français, l’empire de la coutume (Paris: Aubier, 1996)
A mission to civilize: The republican idea of empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a "civilizing" ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting - the governors general of French West Africa from 18…
Civil Society, Science, and Empire in Late Republican France: The Foundation of Paris's Museum of Man
In 1938 an important civic institution for the support of science opened in Paris: the Musée de l'homme, a state-of-the-art anthropological museum under the direction of Paul Rivet. From the outset, there was more to the museum than met the eye. A socialist and humanist, Rivet used both bones and objects to try to convince the public of the equality of all peoples and cultures. Behind these displays lay research facilities designed to lure practi…
Colonialism and Human Rights, A Contradiction in Terms? The Case of France and West Africa, 1895–1914
Colonialism and Human Rights, A Contradiction in Terms? The Case of France and West Africa, 1895–1914 Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin assistant professor of history University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Where she teaches modern French and European history and the history of Western expansion. She is the author of A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Af…
Boundaries Unbound: Teaching French History as Colonial History and Colonial History as French History
Research Article| April 01 2000 Boundaries Unbound: Teaching French History as Colonial History and Colonial History as French History Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (2): 215–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-2-215 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Democracy » Rediscovered: Civilization through Association in French West Africa (1914-1930)
This paper examines the new rhetoric and policy of 'democratic' association that emergea1 in Dakar after World War I. New threats to French authority—the election of Biaise Diagne and revolts throughout AOF against conscription—along with a shift to the rightin France, led administrators in the 1920s to reformulate the politique indigene followed since 1895. The legitimate aspirations of old and new African elites for power were now to be met by …
Introduction: Writing Colonial Histories
In 1941 the Vichy government commissioned Jeu de l’Empire Francais, a double-sided, brightly colored board game for children, each side with a slightly different ‘‘course de l’Empire francais,’’ played on a lavishly illustrated world map (fig. 1). The rules stated that ‘‘the Marshal offers a voyage around the world to two French youths, passing through the colonies of the empire and using Frenchmaritime and aviation lines.’’ The players left from…
Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire
Book Review| April 01 2007 Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (2): 305–332. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alice L. Conklin; Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern…
Nothing Is Less Universal than the Idea of Race’: Alfred Métraux, American Social Science and Unesco’s Anti-Racist Campaign in 1950s Paris
In 1950, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Métraux, a student of Marcel Mauss, was appointed to head a new Race Bureau at UNESCO in Paris whose mission was to combat racism with the tools of social science. Métraux had worked in the Americas since the 1930s, and his appointment allowed French social scientists to join the global struggle to remove prejudice ‘from the minds of men’. To what extent did French scholars help shape Métraux’s efforts,…
Le colonialisme: Un Dérapage De l'Idéal Éducatif
Conklin Alice L. Le colonialisme : un dérapage de l'idéal éducatif?. In: Communications, 72, 2002. L'idéal éducatif, sous la direction de François Flahault et Jean-Marie Schaeffer. pp. 159-174
Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape/Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light
Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape. Bennetta Jules-Rosette. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii. 253 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index.Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Tyler Stovall. Boston: Mariner Books, 1996. xvi. 336 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
A mission to civilize: The republican idea of empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
This book addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: How did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a "civilizing" ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting - the governors general of French West Africa from 18…
Democracy » Rediscovered: Civilization through Association in French West Africa (1914-1930)
This paper examines the new rhetoric and policy of 'democratic' association that emergea1 in Dakar after World War I. New threats to French authority—the election of Biaise Diagne and revolts throughout AOF against conscription—along with a shift to the rightin France, led administrators in the 1920s to reformulate the politique indigene followed since 1895. The legitimate aspirations of old and new African elites for power were now to be met by …
Colonialism and Human Rights, A Contradiction in Terms? The Case of France and West Africa, 1895–1914
Colonialism and Human Rights, A Contradiction in Terms? The Case of France and West Africa, 1895–1914 Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin assistant professor of history University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Where she teaches modern French and European history and the history of Western expansion. She is the author of A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Af…
L'Africanisme en Questions
Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape/Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light
Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape. Bennetta Jules-Rosette. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii. 253 pp., appendixes, notes, references, index.Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light. Tyler Stovall. Boston: Mariner Books, 1996. xvi. 336 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Boundaries Unbound: Teaching French History as Colonial History and Colonial History as French History
Research Article| April 01 2000 Boundaries Unbound: Teaching French History as Colonial History and Colonial History as French History Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (2): 215–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-2-215 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
French Culture(s) After Empire
Post-Colonial Cultures in France, Alec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney, eds. (London: Routledge, 1997) Jean-Loup Amselle, Vers un multiculturalisme français, l’empire de la coutume (Paris: Aubier, 1996)
Civil Society, Science, and Empire in Late Republican France: The Foundation of Paris's Museum of Man
In 1938 an important civic institution for the support of science opened in Paris: the Musée de l'homme, a state-of-the-art anthropological museum under the direction of Paul Rivet. From the outset, there was more to the museum than met the eye. A socialist and humanist, Rivet used both bones and objects to try to convince the public of the equality of all peoples and cultures. Behind these displays lay research facilities designed to lure practi…
Le colonialisme: Un Dérapage De l'Idéal Éducatif
Conklin Alice L. Le colonialisme : un dérapage de l'idéal éducatif?. In: Communications, 72, 2002. L'idéal éducatif, sous la direction de François Flahault et Jean-Marie Schaeffer. pp. 159-174
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
Introduction: Writing Colonial Histories
In 1941 the Vichy government commissioned Jeu de l’Empire Francais, a double-sided, brightly colored board game for children, each side with a slightly different ‘‘course de l’Empire francais,’’ played on a lavishly illustrated world map (fig. 1). The rules stated that ‘‘the Marshal offers a voyage around the world to two French youths, passing through the colonies of the empire and using Frenchmaritime and aviation lines.’’ The players left from…
The Ties that Bind? European Working Women and the Shifting Boundaries of Sex, Race and State
Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire
Book Review| April 01 2007 Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern French Empire Alice L. Conklin Alice L. Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (2): 305–332. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alice L. Conklin; Histories of Colonialism: Recent Studies of the Modern…
L'anthropologie française entre sciences coloniales et décolonisation (1880–1960)
L'anthropologie française entre sciences coloniales et décolonisation (1880–1960)." Modern & Contemporary France, 19(4), pp. 530–531
Colonisations
Pascale Barthélémy, Africaines et diplômées à l'époque coloniale (1918-1957): (Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010) 345 pages
L’excellent ouvrage de Pascale Barthélémy constitue un nouveau titre, très bienvenu, dans la floraison d’études dévolues à ce que Gregory Mann a appelé « la relation contrainte particulière » entre la France et l’Afrique. Pascale Barthélémy s’est penchée sur la petite minorité d’Africaines - à peine un millier au total - issues de la fédération d’Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) et formées par les Français pour devenir sages-femmes, infirmière…
In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950
Emprunts transnationaux et constitution du Musée de l’Homme
Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, la plupart des grands musées d’ethnographie occidentaux furent rénovés et restructurés, grâce à une volonté nouvelle d’instruire le grand public sur les régions lointaines du monde. Ces musées avaient été créés à la fin du xixe siècle, au moment où la conquête impériale, les fiertés nationales et la professionnalisation de l’anthropologie encourageaient la collecte scientifique des artéfacts des sociétés dites « primiti…
Rebecca Rogers, A Frenchwoman's Imperial Stor: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2013
In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950
In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, int…
From the Study to the Field: Ethnologists in the Empire
H. Chapman, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic
AHR Conversation: Museums, History, and the Public in a Global Age
Since 2006, the AHR has published eleven “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The aim is to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high lev…
Nothing Is Less Universal than the Idea of Race’: Alfred Métraux, American Social Science and Unesco’s Anti-Racist Campaign in 1950s Paris
In 1950, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Métraux, a student of Marcel Mauss, was appointed to head a new Race Bureau at UNESCO in Paris whose mission was to combat racism with the tools of social science. Métraux had worked in the Americas since the 1930s, and his appointment allowed French social scientists to join the global struggle to remove prejudice ‘from the minds of men’. To what extent did French scholars help shape Métraux’s efforts,…
Le musée de l'Homme et la question de la race à la fin des années 1930: Focus
Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, le musée de l’Homme a développé un projet scientifique et pédagogique au sein duquel la dimension antiraciste était centrale. Mais, paradoxalement, il défendait une partition de l’humanité en races et même une hiérarchie raciale, qui ont depuis été rejetées par la science. Ce paradoxe s’explique par le fait que le musée se fondait sur des prémisses scientifiques faux et qu’il entendait, à tort, séparer la « vraie scienc…
History (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (9 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (8 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (7 works) · North African History and Literature (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works)