Dr Andre Lambelet

Biography/ Background

I joined the University of Adelaide in 2004. Before my arrival in Adelaide, I taught European and World History as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon's R.D. Clark Honors College. I studied Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned an MA and PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Qualifications

Ph.D., History. University of California, Berkeley.

C.Phil., History. University of California, Berkeley.

M.A., History. University of California, Berkeley.

B.A., Politics. University of California, Santa Cruz.

Teaching Interests

I am interested in questions of cultural, ethnic, national and political identity: how identities are created, how people come to identify themselves as part of a group, and how people choose between or reconcile competing identities. If my teaching centers on Europe and modern France, it also emphasizes the interaction between Europe and the world. The contacts and collisions between cultures are not peripheral, but central, to the development of world history. My teaching emphasizes the importance of cultural exchange and borrowing between Europe and the world in the continual creation of new identities and allegiances.

The undergraduate courses in which I teach include:

• HIST 2061: The Pursuit of Happiness (cultural and intellectual history)
• HIST 2032: Colonial Identities and the Legacies of Empire (comparative colonial history)
• HIST 2009: Europe at War (social, cultural, and military history of European conflicts)
• HIST 1105: Europe, Empire, and the World (first-year world history)
• HIST 1106: The World in Turmoil (first-year world history)

Honours-level courses:

• Enlightenment and Revolution
• War, Society, and Culture
• Honours Common Course (methods and historiography)

In 2007, I received the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Research Interests

Citizenship, republicanism, and conscription in modern France

Colonialism, race, and identity

Cultural history

Political culture

Publications

• "Manifestly Inferior? French Reserves, 1871-1914," in Scraping the Barrel: Army Use of Substandard Manpower through History, ed. Sanders Marble (New York: Fordham University Press, under contract).
• Review of Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, The Somme. In Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 2006, v. 34.
• "Consentement fabriqué? Le rôle moral de l'officier pendant la Grand Guerre," in La Grande Guerre, pratiques et expériences, eds. Rémy Cazals, Emmanuel Picard, and Denis Rolland (Toulouse: Privat, 2005).
• "Back to the Future: Politics, Propaganda, and the Centennial of the Conquest of Algeria," in French History and Civilization: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar, 2005, 1:62–72.
• "'Liaison Factice' and 'Schwarze Schande': Black Soldiers, French Officers, and the Ideology of Conscription," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 2002, 28: 271-281.
• Review: David S. Landes: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. In Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, 9:2, Summer 2000.
• "Frenchmen into Spaniards? Army Officers, Political Ideology and Education, 1936-1940," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 1997, 24: 267-277.
  

Entry last updated: Sunday, 12 Jul 2009