LORELLE D. SEMLEY Department of History Worcester, MA O'Kane Hall, Room 388 (508)

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1 LORELLE D. SEMLEY College of the Holy Cross One College Street Department of History Worcester, MA O'Kane Hall, Room 388 (508) Education Northwestern University Ph.D. in History, December Dissertation: Kétu Identities: Islam, Gender, and French Colonialism in West Africa, 1850s- 1960s. M.A. in History, June Yale University M. A. in African Studies, May Georgetown University, School of Languages and Linguistics B.S. in French, May Employment College of the Holy Cross, History Department Assistant Professor, 2011 to Present. Wesleyan University, History Department Assistant Professor, 2003 to Chair, African Studies Cluster, Bryn Mawr College, History Department Visiting Lecturer, Northwestern University, Women s Residential College Graduate Associate Facilitator, Northwestern University, History Department; International Studies Program Teaching Assistant, Fellowships and Grants Faculty Center for Development Conference Travel Grant, College of the Holy Cross, Schomburg Center for Research for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Summer Batchelor Ford and Ardizzone Faculty Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, Summer W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies Fellowship, Harvard University, Spring Research and Publication Grant, College of the Holy Cross, John Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown University, July-August International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, Summer 2010.

2 Page 2 Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Grant, Wesleyan University, The Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs First ( ) Fund, Wesleyan University, Project Grant, Wesleyan University 2010, Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow, Wesleyan University, Fall 2010, Spring Faculty Seminar on Islam, Wesleyan University, National Security Education Program Dissertation Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship, Teaching Fellowship, Northwestern University Hans Panofsky Summer Research Grant, Northwestern University, Summer Research Grant, History Department, Northwestern University, 1996, Committee on Institutional Cooperation Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Fellowship- Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies and University Fellowship, Yale University, Scholarship Book Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011). Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice. Gender and History 24, 3 (November 2012): Forthcoming. The Brazilians are us : Identity and Gender in the Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Ketu, in Paul Lovejoy, Ana Lucia Araujo, and Mariana Pinho Candido, eds., Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011), Book Reviews and Shorter Articles Review of The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe. By Nwando Achebe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, In American Historical Review 117, 1 (February 2012): Review of Public Memory of the Slave Trade: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. By Ana Lucia Araujo. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, In Itinerario 35, 2 (August 2011): Review of Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, By Richard S. Fogarty. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, In Journal of World History 21, 2 (June 2010): Colonialism and Imperialism: Sub-Saharan Africa, in Suad Joseph, ed., Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Volume II: Family, Law and Politics (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2005),

3 Page 3 Current Projects To Live and Die, Free and French: Toussaint Louverture s 1801 Constitution and the Original Challenge of Black Citizenship. Article Accepted and in production. Porto-Novo, the Latin Quarter of French West Africa and a New Trans-African History. Article under revision for resubmission. Free and French: The Challenge of Black Citizenship to French Colonial Empire. Book proposal under review; manuscript in preparation. Conference Papers and Invited Talks *indicates invited talk John Carter Brown Library Fellows 50 th Anniversary Conference, Brown University *Plenary: The Digital JCB and Open Access: How Haiti Sparked Another Revolution, (Participation by web conference from Cotonou, Benin) Johns Hopkins University, Department of History A Symposium in Celebration of the Scholarship and Mentoring of Sara Berry * Evolution Revolution: A Journey from African Colonial Subject to French Citizen, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University Spring 2012 Colloquium Series Evolution Revolution: A Journey from African Colonial Subject to French Citizen, Centre d histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France Femmes et genre en contexte colonial/women and Gender in Colonial Contexts Signares Before Citizens in French Colonial Senegal, Central Michigan University International Conference on Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences To Live and Die, Free and French: Toussaint Louverture and the Original Human Rights Challenge, Brown University, John Carter Brown Library Lunch Talk Free and French in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue, Berkshire Conference for Women Historians *Plenary: Where Is Africa in Gender Studies? Mothers of an Atlantic World: Rethinking Gender, Religion, and Power in the African Diaspora, Columbia University, Institute for Research in African-American Studies Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women: An International Conference Public Motherhood in Theory and Practice, 2011.

4 University of New Mexico, Latin American and Iberian Institute Africans and their Descendents in the Early Modern Ibero-American World * Porto-Novo, Trans-African City, University of Minnesota, Gender and History Workshop Gender History across Epistemologies Public Motherhood in Theory and Practice, Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Black Internationalism, and the Threat of Evolution Revolution in Interwar Paris, American Historical Association Annual Meeting Signares Before Citizens in French Colonial Senegal, Porto-Novo, Trans-African City, * Black Atlantic Motherhood: Rethinking Marriage, Race, and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, Roundtable: Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage, New York University, History Department, Africa~Diaspora Speaker Series * Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Black Internationalism, and the Threat of Evolution Revolution in Interwar Paris, Lorelle Semley Page 4 Harvard University, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Here all men are born, free and French : Race, Gender, and Empire in the Revolutionary Constitutions of France and Haiti, University of Connecticut, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Commentator for Working Group Session on the African Diaspora in Latin America: Herman Bennett s Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico, African Studies Association Annual Meeting *Roundtable: Yoruba Studies at the Crossroads, Porto-Novo, Trans-African City, Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Rethinking Gender in West Africa, Prince or Pretender?: The Unusual Pan-Africanism of Kojo Houénou-Tovalou, Marriage and Modernity in French Colonial West Africa, Between Kétu and Candomblé: Gender in the Shaping of the Yorùbá-Nagô Atlantic World, Conversion and Controversy: Interreligious Marriages in Colonial Kétu, , The Queen of Kétu: Rethinking Gender in Colonial Dahomey, Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Porto-Novo, Trans-African City, Fear of a Black Atlantic: Race, Gender, Power in the Bight of Bénin and Brazil, 2006.

5 Page 5 Stirling University, Scotland, Rethinking Africa and the Atlantic World From evolution to revolution : Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou s Challenge to French Colonial Empire in West Africa, Wesleyan University, African and African Diaspora Studies Workshop The First Stage of Evolution toward Revolution : Marc Kojo Tovalou Houénou s Challenge to Race and Empire in Interwar France, Williams College, Mellon 8 Atlantic World Conference Roundtable Discussion on Atlantic World Syllabi, Université de Laval, Québec, Crossing Memories: Slavery and the African Diaspora The Brésiliens are us : Meanings and Memories of the Slave Trade in Kétu, Bénin, Wesleyan University, College of Social Studies Luncheon Forum * Africa and the World, Northeast Regional Mellon Conference, Wesleyan University * Turning Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Diaspora Begins at Home: (Dis)placing Kétu in an Atlantic World, University of California, Irvine, Graduate Student Conference in History and Theory Colonial Crossroads: Gender, French Imperialism, and Social Order in Kétu, Dahomey, , Johns Hopkins University, African Seminar An Uncertain Colonization: Early French Colonial Policies in Kétu (Dahomey), s, Stanford University, Joint Stanford/Berkeley Spring Conference The Queen and the Qur an in Kétu: Explorations in Gender and Islam in Colonial Dahomey, Yale University, Agrarian Studies Graduate Student Colloquium The Quartier Latin and L Enfant Terrible of French West Africa: The Role of Elite Conflict and Cooperation in the Rise of Early Nationalism in Colonial Dahomey, Professional and University Service Manuscript Reviewer for The Americas. Manuscript Reviewer for Transnational Subjects: History, Society, and Culture.

6 Page 6 Co-Convener Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities Symposium, held at the University of Chicago, April Graduate Studies Advisor, History Department, College of the Holy Cross, Africana Studies Affiliated Faculty, College of the Holy Cross, Women s and Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty, College of the Holy Cross, Latin American and Latino Studies Affiliated Faculty, College of the Holy Cross, Chair, African Studies Cluster, Wesleyan University, Organized first annual regional conference on African and African Diaspora Studies. Faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Wesleyan University, Middle East Studies Planning Committee, Wesleyan University, Gender and History Field Advisor, History Department, Wesleyan University, Africa, Asia and Latin America Field Advisor, History Department, Led effort to change name and description of field to Worlds, Empires, and Encounters. Honors Committee, History Department, Wesleyan University, ; Committee on International Studies, Wesleyan University, Common Life Committee, History Department, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Affiliated Faculty, Wesleyan University, Senior Research Projects Supervised Adeneiki Williams, 2010, Like a dark sea nudging its way onto a white beach and staining the sand, they came : Caribbean Transformations of Urban Landscapes in History and Literature, Wesleyan University, American Studies, Senior Essay. Devon Golaszewski, 2008, A Question of Fulbe Power: Social Change, the State and Ethnic Relations in Northern Cameroon, Wesleyan University, History Department, Senior Thesis, (Received High Honors). Christie M. Roberts, 2006, The Only Rational Choice: A Comparative Analysis of Socialism in Tanzania and Angola, Wesleyan University, College of Social Studies, Senior Thesis, (Received Honors). Faraneh Carnegie, 2005, We Blazed the Trail for Men : Blackness and Antillanité in the Writing of Paulette Nardal and Suzanne Césaire, Wesleyan University, History Department, Senior Thesis, (Received High Honors). Mary Louise Graham, 2004, Where we keep our skulls : The Manipulation of History and the Violence of Memory in the Bamileke of Cameroon, Wesleyan University, History Department, (Received High Honors). Emma Ruby-Sachs, 2004, Privatization Politics: Feminism and Motherhood in the New South Africa, Wesleyan University, Women s Studies, (Received Honors).

7 Page 7 Thomas Summerville, 2004, Cultural Encounter between Missionaries of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Kuba Peoples of the Kasai Region of the Congo Independent State, , Wesleyan University, History Department, Senior Essay. Courses Taught Travel Narratives and African History African History Before 1870 African History Since 1870 Engendering the African Diaspora Muslim Africa Women s and Gender History in Africa Imperial Ideas: Africans, Europeans and the Transformation of Ideologies Africa in Brazil Slavery, Empire, and Sexuality: An African Research Seminar Atlantic Africa History of Human Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora Professional Memberships African Studies Association American Historical Association Berkshire Conference of Women s Historians Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI) French Colonial Historical Society Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Urban History Association (UHA)