EDWARD JAMES KOLLA Curriculum vitae Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar Georgetown Building, Education City P.O. Box 23689 Doha, Qatar 3300 Whitehaven Street NW Suite 2100, Harris Building Washington, DC 20007-2401 Office telephone +974 4457.8425 Mobile telephone +974 6659.1872 Facsimile +974 4457.8231 Email ejk55@georgetown.edu EMPLOYMENT Georgetown University, Assistant Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2010- present University of Texas at Austin, Resident Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, fall 2012 EDUCATION The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. in History, 2004-10 Dissertation advisor: Professor David A. Bell Dissertation title: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Will of the People: The French Revolution and the Transformation of International Law, 1789-92 Comprehensive exams passed, with grade of distinction on oral exams, May 2006 Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Institut d histoire de la Révolution française, visiting fellow, 2006-08 Sponsor: Professor Jean- Clément Martin The University of Toronto, Trinity College, Honours B.A. in History, International Relations, and French, with distinction, 1999-2003 Eton College, Windsor, England, General Certificate of Education A Levels, 1998-99 Walnut Grove Secondary School, Langley, British Columbia, High school diploma, with honours, 1994-98 ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS The French Revolution, the Union of Avignon, and the Challenges of National Self- Determination Law and History Review 31:4 (November 2013) Not So Criminal: New Understandings of Napoleon s Foreign Policy in the East, French Historical Studies 30:2 (Spring 2007) International Law, Global Perspectives on the United States, Vol. 3 Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations, eds. David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Berkshire, 2007)
2 WORKS IN PROGRESS Fraternity and Force: Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution, book manuscript Written in the Heart of People? Natural and International Law during the Age of Enlightenment, article manuscript The Ever Elusive Origins of the Alien Tort Statute, article manuscript TEACHING At Georgetown University: Proseminar: The French Revolution, Introduction to Early History: Europe I The Quest for Order, Introduction to Late History: Europe II Zenith and Decline, The History of European Colonialism, 1492-1997, By Force or Fiat? The History of International Law, 1492-2000, A Global History of Revolutions, Paris: A History of the City of Light At Johns Hopkins University: The French Revolution: An Introduction to the Practice and Uses of History, Congresses and Conflict: European International Relations in the Long Nineteen Century, By Force or Fiat? The History of International Law, 1648-2000 OTHER EXPERIENCE Recruitment Officer, Office of Student Recruitment, University of Toronto, 2003 Provided counseling and information services to prospective applicants on behalf of all undergraduate divisions of the university at high schools across Canada AWARDS AND HONORS Faculty Research Grant, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, five awards, 2010-16 Rethinking Diplomacy Fellowship, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2012 Johns Hopkins- Bielefeld University Exchange Fellowship, 2010-11 (declined) Dean s Teaching Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 2010 Residency Fellowship, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 2009 Junior and Interdisciplinary Faces of International Security (or New Faces ) Award, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Duke University, 2008 Bourse Chateaubriand, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères de la France, 2006-07 John B. and Theta H. Wolf Travel Award, Society for French Historical Studies and Western Society for French History, 2006-07 Norah Whitney Scholarship, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 2005 Department of History Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2004-10
3 CONFERENCE AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS A Brief History of the French Passport, meeting of the Western Society for French History, Chicago, Illinois, November 2015 The French Passport in History and final roundtable (invited speaker), conference on Global France, Global French, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, October 2015 The Legal Legacy of Vienna and the Origins of National Self- Determination, conference on The Congress of Vienna Reconsidered, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, England, September 2015 Teaching Revolutions during the Arab Spring, meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, New York, January 2015 (organizer of panel Teaching Liberal Arts in Illiberal Places ) Conflict over Representation in International Law: A Pre- History of National Self- determination during the French Revolution, conference of the Australian Society for French Studies, Melbourne, Australia, December 2014 Terror, Law, and the Conquest of Western Germany during the French Revolutionary Wars, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 2013 (invited speaker) From National Sovereignty to National Unity and National Self- Determination in the Nineteenth Century, meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Miami, Florida, November 2013 Comment for the panel Empire from the Grande Nation to Napoleon, meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2013 The French Revolution, the Will of the People, and the Transformation of International Law, 1789-92 Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, November 2012 (invited speaker) Between Subject and Sovereign State: The Development of the Sister Republics, meeting of the Western Society for French History, Banff, Alberta, October 2012 The French Revolution and the Origins of the Modern Law of Conquest," Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, September 2012 Le pouvoir révolutionnaire and a Novel Legal Justifications for the Annexation of Belgium, 1793-94, meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles, California, March 2012 The Early Modern Origins of the Alien Tort Statute, Institute for Global History, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., February 2012 Written in the Heart of Man? Natural and International Law during the Age of Enlightenment, Culture and Politics Seminar, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar, December 2011 The Continental System in International Law, conference on The Napoleonic Continental System: Local, European, and Global Experiences and Consequences, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2011
4 Comment for the panel Suspects, Citizens, and Political Networks in the Revolutionary Era, meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, February 2011 A Tale of Two Revolutions meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, Arizona, April 2010 Dissertation project presented at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, November 2009 The Difficulty of Determining the Sovereign Will in Avignon, 1789-1791, meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2009 Disputed Legal Idioms and the Subversion of the Rule of Law in Revolutionary Europe, conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Savannah, Georgia, February 2009 Dissertation project presented at the Junior and Interdisciplinary Faces of International Security (or, New Faces ) conference of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 2008 (invited speaker) The affair of the princes possessionnés in Alsace and the legal legitimacy of the popular will, University of Chicago Center, Paris, France, April 2008 The affair of the princes possessionnés in Revolutionary France and the transformation of European international law, conference on Europe in Upheaval: The Era of the Napoleonic Wars, Hanasaari Swedish- Finnish Cultural Centre, Espoo, Finland, February 2008 Dissertation project presented at the Conference of Chateaubriand Scholars, Ministère de l Education Nationale, de l Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, Paris, France, May 2007 (conference co- organizer) The Vagaries of the Law of Nations in Eighteenth Century France, meeting of the Western Society for French History, Long Beach, California, October 2006 Of Lions, Tigers and Cattle: British and American Visions of the International System during the French Revolution, conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2006 De- criminalizing Napoleon s Diplomacy: New Understandings of French Foreign Policy, 1797-1814, European Seminar, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2005 REVIEWS Pierre Serna, Antonio De Francesco, and Judith A. Miller, eds., Republics at War, 1776-1840: Revolutions, Conflicts, and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World (2013), H- France, February, 2015 <http://www.h- france.net/vol15reviews/vol15no25kolla.pdf> Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson, eds., The French Revolution in Global Perspective (2013), H- Diplo, August, 2013 <https://www.h- net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=39141>
5 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Field Chair, International History, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, 2014- present Research Fellows, Curriculum, Student Liaison, External Engagement, Academic Rights and Responsibilities, and Academic Advisory committees, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, 2010- present Dean s Strategic and Commencement taskforces, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, 2012-14 Search committees for Asian or African, Global, and Middle Eastern historians, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, 2012-13 Co- president, History Graduate Students Association, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-09 Secretary, Graduate Representative Organization, Johns Hopkins University, 2005-06 Memberships: American Historical Association, American Society of International Law, American Society of Legal History, Society for French Historical Studies, and Western Society for French History Referee of manuscripts for Oxford University Press, Norton, Bloomsbury, Law and History Review, and French Historical Studies COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Football (soccer) coach, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, 2010-12 (named Best Coach for Spring 2011 Education City tournament) Founding president, Squash Club, Johns Hopkins University, 2009-10 Volunteer squash coach, Baltimore SquashWise, 2009 OTHER PROFICIENCIES Fluency in English and French Basic reading ability in German, Italian, and Spanish American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED certified Extensive travel experience in over seventy countries on six continents Updated August 2015