RACHEL KANTROWITZ

Curriculum Vitae

www.rachelkantrowitz.com

Department of Education 98 Lorimer Avenue

Brown University Providence, RI 02906
Box 1938, 340 Brook Street
rachel_kantrowitz@brown.edu
Providence, RI 02912 323.350.2941

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Brown University, Providence, RI.

Visiting Assistant Professor, 2017-present.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities and
Department of Education,
2015-2017

EDUCATION

New York University, New York, NY, 2015.

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

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.

PUBLICATIONS
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Peer-Reviewed Articles

Catholic Schools as a Nation in Miniature: Catholic Civism in Senegal and

Benin, 1960-1970s
Revised and resubmitted, 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.

Manuscript in Preparation

Education for All: Decolonization, Religion, and Development in

Francophone West Africa.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2017 Academic Technology Summer Institute. Instructional

Technology Group, Brown
University.
2015-2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities.
Comparative and International Education,
Department of Education and the 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.
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).
2012-2013 Doctoral Fellow, Remarque Institute at cole Normale
Suprieure. Paris, France.
2012-2013 Pensionnaire trangre, cole Normale Suprieure. Paris,
France.
2012 Summer Travel Award, History Department, New York
University. New York, NY.
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.

INVITED TALKS
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2015 Database Management and Digital Workflow. Seminar on

Archival and Historical Research. Center for Jewish
History, New York, NY. May 21.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

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 Organized

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

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

2014 Chair. Oral History: A Reflection on Interdisciplinary Methods

African Studies Association. Indianapolis, IN. November 20-23.

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

2017 The School Book War: Missionary Printing Presses and West
African Textbooks,
African Studies Association. Chicago, IL. November 16-18.
Paper accepted.

2017 A Nation in Miniature: Lessons from Catholic Schools in 1960s

and 1970s Senegal and Benin. Education in Africa Conference.
Providence, RI. March 10.

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.

2014 Integrating Histories: Methodological Insights from

Interviewing Students on Education in Post-1945 Senegal
and Benin. African Studies Association. Indianapolis, IN.
November 20-23.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

2011 Transforming Empire: Education in Post-War French West

Africa. African Studies Association. Washington, DC.
November 17-19.

2011 Debating French Christian Education in West Africa After

World War II. French Colonial Historical Society. Toronto, ON,
Canada. June 2-4.

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.

TEACHING

Brown University

Ethnicity, Conflict, and Inequality in Global Perspective. Summer 2017

(Section leader). Brown International Advanced Research
Institutes (BIARI).
Empire, Childhood, and Youth. Fall 2017.
Decolonizing African Education: Student Activism and Social Change,
1960s-
present. (Cross-listed with Africana Studies). Fall 2016, Spring
2016, Fall 2017.
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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.
Aiding the Sick, Poor, and Hungry: African Development in Debate.
Summer
2012.
Africa Since 1940. (Teaching Assistant). Professor Frederick Cooper.
Fall 2011.

France

English Language Assistant, Lyce Fabre, Carpentras, France. Fall

2007-Spring 2008.

LANGUAGES

Fluent French.
Fluent Spanish.
Intermediate Yoruba.
Beginning Wolof.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

African Studies Association.

French Colonial Historical Society.
American Historical Association.
Phi Beta Kappa.

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. Winner of
the Archambault Award for Outstanding Thesis.

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

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

University.