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1 ANDREA E. WILLIAMS, Ph.D. Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts, Dean s Office Fort Collins, CO Andrea.Williams@colostate.edu EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D., Modern European History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Minor / Research fields: Environmental History, Middle Eastern History, Ottoman History Dissertation: Planting Politics: Mobile Pastoralists and French Environmental Administration in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean 2003 B.A., Cum Laude, European History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Thesis: The Playground of Empire: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Pursuit of Pleasure in British Mountaineering through 1914 OTHER ACADEMIC TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT German 201 & 300, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Arabic 200 & 201, Colorado State University 2007 Summer Term, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey Courses completed: Modern Turkish Reading, Ottoman Turkish ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2013-Present Director of International Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 2010-Present Instructor, History and International Studies, Colorado State University Maître de Langues, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France 2007 Teaching Assistant, Howard University, Washington, DC Fall Advisor, McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Office of International Programs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Teacher, US History and Algebra II, Lowell Whiteman School, Steamboat Springs, CO AWARDS AND HONORS Resident Fellow, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, 2016 Nominee, Best Honors Thesis Advisor Award, Colorado State University, 2016 Samuel P. Hayes Research Fellowship, American Society for Environmental History, 2014 Graduate Program Tuition Grant, Georgetown University, 2013

2 AWARDS AND HONORS (Continued) Piepho Grant for Dissertation Research, Georgetown University, 2012 Conference Travel Grant, Georgetown University, 2009 Piepho Grant for Dissertation Research, Georgetown University, 2007 Foreign Language Acquisition Scholarship (FLAS), Georgetown University, 2007 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Georgetown University, 2007 Appointee: G2 Teaching Assistant Exchange Program with Howard University Davis Doctoral Fellowship, Georgetown University, Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Georgetown University, PUBLICATIONS Nomads Land: French Forestry, Pastoralism, and Empire in the Nineteenth-century Mediterranean World, University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming) Civilizing through Cork: A Social Sustainable Enterprise in French Colonial Algeria, Under review, Journal of Comparative Studies in Society and History Baptism by Fire: Mobile Pastoralists and French Discourse on Wildfires in the Nineteenth-century Mediterranean World, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (forthcoming) REVIEW: The Ecology of Pastoralism by P. Nick Kardulias, Agricultural History 90.1 (2016) REVIEW: Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail, The Arab World Geographer 14.4 (2011) WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND PRESENTATIONS Presenter and Participant, African Environments and their Populations, African History Seminar Series Annual Spring Workshop, Georgetown University, April 2016 French Foresters Abroad: French Empire and the Nineteenth-century Evolution of Forest Science, for panel: Trees Crossing Borders - Towards a Transnational History of Forestry, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, March 2016 Participant, Paleoclimate-Dendroclimatology Workshop for Pre-Modernists, Princeton University, September 2015 The Great Thaw: The End of the Little Ice Age and the Politics of Land Use in Rural Anatolia, for panel Climate and Land Use in the History of Anatolia and Armenia, International Conference of Historical Geographers, July 2015 Forest Management and the Cork Boom in French Colonial Algeria, , for panel Technologies, Infrastructures and the Environment in Colonial Africa (II): Rural Perspectives, European Society for Environmental History Biennial Conference, June-July 2015 The Tragedy of Enclosure? Privatization and French Agriculture, , and panel organizer for panel Commons in Comparison: The Transnational Culture of Customary Rights to Land, Agricultural History Society Annual Conference, June P a g e

3 WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND PRESENTATIONS (Continued) Fighting Fire with Fire: Indigenous Groups, French Forestry, and the Algerian Landscape, , for panel Contested Landscapes in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, March 2015 Brazil in Metamorphosis, Foreign Policy Association, Fort Collins, CO, March 3, 2015 From Paris Peace to Islamic State, Nathan Meyer Annual Lecture, Colorado State University, November 9, 2014 The Impact of Modernity on Pastoral Lands: Utilizing Environmental History to Decipher the Past and Guide our Future, Interactions of Society and the Environment Seminar Series, Colorado State University, October 24, 2014 Panel: Middle East Crises: Past and Present, Colorado State University, September 9, 2014 Sheep to the Slaughter: The French Wool Crisis and the Nineteenth-century Transformation of Pastoralism in Provence, for panel Sheep: In Transition, Agricultural History Society Annual Conference, June 2014 Panel: Syria, Past and Present, Colorado State University, September 11, 2013 Baptism by Fire: Mobile Pastoralism and Un(?)-Natural Disasters in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean, History Faculty Research Seminar Series, Colorado State University, April 1, 2013 Nomads, Frenchmen, and the Development of Scientific Forestry in Ottoman Anatolia, History Faculty Research Seminar Series, Colorado State University, October 2011 Forest, Field, or Pasture? The French Forest Administration and Land Use in Nineteenth-Century Provence, History Faculty Research Seminar Series, Colorado State University, October 2010 Counting Sheep: The Forest Regime and Pastoralism in Nineteenth-Century Provence, for panel Philosophers and Foresters: Ideas of Sustainability in 18th and 19th Century France, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, March 2010 Scientific Forestry and the Decline of Nomadic Pastoralism in Tanzimat Era Anatolia, for panel Ottoman Environmental History: Nature and Empire in the Middle East c , American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, February 2009 UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT 2016 HIST 116: The Islamic World, 1500-Present 2012-Present INST 300: Approaches to International Studies 2011-Present INST 492: The International Studies Capstone Seminar 2014 HIST 115: The Islamic World to HIST 438: The Modern Middle East HIST 101: Western Civilizations, 1500-Present 2010 HIST 328: Nineteenth-century Europe LEA A05: Résumé de Texte 3 P a g e

4 UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT (Continued) IAV CO22: American Civilization: History, Politics and Society IAV F02: Synthèse de Texte Lansad L01: Anglophone Press Lansad L31: Argumentation LEA A06 & LEA A021: Compréhension IAA E12, IAA F11, & IAA F20: Advanced Comprehension OTHER COURSES DEVELOPED HIST 3**: Environment and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (2016) HON 293: Knowing Nature: Environmental Perceptions across Cultures (2016) INST 301: Global Commodities across the Disciplines (2015) INST 200: Approaches to Globalization (2015) INST 482: Global Citizenship and Professional Spanish in Todos Santos, Mexico (2014) SERVICE Chair, International Studies External Program Review, University of Idaho (Moscow), March 2016 Secretary, Climate History Network Meetings at ESEH, Versailles, and ICHG, London, Summer 2015 Contributor, Climate History Network Newsletter, Fall 2015 Member, Honors Curriculum Development Committee, Colorado State University (2014) ONGOING SERVICE Chair, International Studies Executive Committee, Colorado State University (2013-Present) Member, Education Abroad Advisory Board, Colorado State University (2016-Present) Member, Fulbright Scholarship Committee, Colorado State University (2014-Present) Member, International Operations Committee, Colorado State University (2014-Present) Member, Todos Santos Operations and Cultural Advisory Committee, Colorado State University (2014- Present) Faculty Advisor, Global Awareness and International Affairs (GAIA) Student Organization (2013-Present) Faculty Advisor, Turkish Student Association (2015-Present) Faculty Advisor, Honors Thesis Students (2013-Present) 4 P a g e

5 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Agricultural History Society American Historical Association American Society for Environmental History Climate History Network European Society for Environmental History Society for French Historical Studies LANGUAGES Speak, Read, Write: French Speak, Read: German, Turkish Read: Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Danish REFERENCES John R. McNeill, University Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University Connection: Dissertation Advisor Phone: Diana K. Davis, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California - Davis Connection: Dissertation Committee Member geovet@ucdavis.edu Phone: Gabor Agoston, Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University Connection: Dissertation Advisor agostong@georgetown.edu Phone: Kelly Long, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Colorado State University Connection: Administrative Supervisor kelly.long@colostate.edu Phone: P a g e

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