Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 1985
  • B.A., University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 1976
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Interim Dean of Humanities, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2019 - 2020
  • Interim Chair of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2018
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2016
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAR 25, 2021

    January Book: Neil McWilliam "L'esthétique de la réaction: Tradition, foi, identité et l'art français (1900-1914)"

  • MAR 6, 2020

    Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

    McWilliam to lead Graduate Education for Trinity College
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellowships for University Teachers. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2011
  • Provost's Common Fund. Duke University. November 2009
  • Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2006
  • School of Historical Studies/ Members. Institute for Advanced Study. 1997
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • France (Country) 

  • Research

    • France (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • McWilliam, Neil. L'Esthétique de la réaction. Tradition, foi, identité et l'art français (1900-1914). Translated by Françoise Jaouen. Dijon, France: Les Presses du réel, 2021.
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    • McWilliam, Neil. The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Faith, Identity and the Visual Arts in France, c. 1900-1914. Brepols, 2021.
    • McWilliam, N. F., C. Moréteau, and J. Lamoureux, eds. Histoires sociales de l'art. Une anthologie critique. Vol. 1 & 2. Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2016.
    • McWilliam, N. F. L’Histoire de l’art en France 1890-1950: Acteurs, institutions, enjeux. Les Presses du réel/ Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2014.
    • McWilliam, N. F. Emile Bernard: Les Lettres d’un artiste (1884-1941). Les Presses du réel, 2012.
    • Bernard, Emile, and Neil McWilliam. Émile Bernard, au-delà de Pont-Aven, 2012.
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    • McWilliam, N. F., Cathérine Meneux, and Julie Ramos. L’art social en France de la Révolution à la Grande Guerre, 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F., M. Leymarie, and O. Dard. L’Action française et la culture. Lille, France: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2010.
    • McWilliam, N., ed. Lines of Attack. Duke University Press, 2010.
    • McWilliam, N. Rêves de bonheur. L’Art social et la gauche française (1830-1850). Les Presses du réel, 2007.
    • McWilliam, N., and J. Hargrove, eds. Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914. National Gallery of Art (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), 2005.
    • McWilliam, N. F. Monumental Intolerance. Jean Baffier, A Nationalist Sculptor in fin-de-siècle France. Penn State University Press, 2000.
    • Hogarth. Studio Editions, London, 1993.
    • McWilliam, N. F. Dreams of Happiness. Social Art and the French Left 1830-1850. Princeton University Press, 1993.
    • McWilliam, N. F. A Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Paris from the July Monarchy to the Second Republic 1831-1851. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
    • McWilliam, N. F., Vera Schuster, Richard Wrigley, and Pascale Méker. A Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Paris from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration 1699-1827. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
    • McWilliam, N. F., and V. Sekules, eds. Life and Landscape: The Photographs of P.H. Emerson. Norwich: Sainsbury Center of Visual Arts, 1986.
    • McWilliam, N. F. The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Identity and the Visual Arts in France, c. 1900-1914 (In preparation), n.d.

  • Academic Articles

    • McWilliam, Neil. “On Reading Histoire de l’art as an Anglo-Saxon.” Histoire De L’Art, no. 83 (2018).
    • McWilliam, Neil. “Towards a New French Renaissance: Memory, Tradition and Cultural Conservatism in France before the First World War.” Art History 40, no. 4 (September 2017): 724–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12339.
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    • McWilliam, N. F., Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac, Eric Michaud, Yves Michaud, and Michael Orwicz. “Art, état et idéologies au XIXe et XXe siècles.” Perspective, no. 1 (June 2012): 41–55.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “A la recherche de l'Amérique profonde: l'art patriotique contemporain et l'idée de communauté nationale.” Histoire De L’Art, no. 70 (2012): 95–107.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Emile Bernard, Vincent van Gogh et Octave Mirbeau: Critique de la critique.” Cahiers Octave Mirbeau, no. 18 (March 2011): 169–77.
    • McWilliam, Neil. “Action francaise, classicism, and the dilemmas of traditionalism in France, 1900-1914.” Studies in the History of Art 68 (2005): 269-+.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Une Esthétique révolutionnaire? La Politique de l’Art social. Aux alentours de 1820-1850’.” Arts Et Sociétés, December 1, 2004.
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    • McWilliam, Neil. “Conflicting Manifestations: Parisian Commemoration of Joan of Arc and Etienne Dolet in the Early Third Republic.” French Historical Studies 27, no. 2 (April 1, 2004): 381–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-2-381.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Exercises de style. La Critique devant les Envois de Rome 1800-1873.” D’Ingres À Degas. Rome Et Les Artistes Français 1803 1873, 2003, 139–49.
    • McWilliam, Neil F. “Champagne Socialism: Luxury in Fourier's Utopia.” Modern and Contemporary France 9, no. 2 (May 2001): 149–60.
    • McWilliam, N. “Gustave Courbet et la Franche-Comté. Besançon.” The Burlington Magazine 143, no. 1175 (2001): 116–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/889192.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Race, Remembrance and 'Revanche': Commemorating the Franco-Prussian War in the Third Republic.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 19, no. 4 (1996): 473–98.
    • McWilliam, N. “Monuments, Martyrdom, and the Politics of Religion in the French Third Republic.” The Art Bulletin 77, no. 2 (1995): 186–206. https://doi.org/10.2307/3046097.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Presse, journalistes et critique d'art à Paris de 1849 à 1860.” Quarante Huit/Quatorze, Annual Publication of the Musée D’Orsay 5 (1993).
    • McWilliam, N. “Baroque in Croatia. Zagreb, Museum of Arts and Crafts.” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1087 (1993): 712–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/885765.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Opinions professionnelles: critique d'art et économie de la culture sous la Monarchie de juillet.” Romantisme 71 (1991): 19–30.
    • McWilliam, N. “Limited Revisions: Academic Art History Confronts Academic Art.” Oxford Art Journal 12, no. 2 (1989): 71–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360357.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Art, Labour, and Mass Democracy: Debates on the Status of the Artist in France around 1848.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 11, no. 1 (March 1, 1988): 64–87.
    • Melot, M., and N. McWilliam. “Daumier and Art History: Aesthetic Judgement/Political Judgement.” Oxford Art Journal 11, no. 1 (1988): 3–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360319.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Objets retrouvés.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 10, no. 1 (March 1, 1987).
    • Chaudonneret, M., and N. McWilliam. “1848: 'La République des Arts'.” Oxford Art Journal 10, no. 1 (1987): 59–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360304.
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    • McWilliam, N. “The Sculptor of Modern Life.” Oxford Art Journal 10, no. 1 (1987): 102–5. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360311.
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    • McWilliam, N. “Country Life.” Oxford Art Journal 9, no. 1 (1986): 76–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360377.
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    • McWilliam, N. F., and A. Potts. “Richard Wilson: Landscapes of Reaction.” History Workshop Journal, 1985.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Making Faces.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 7, no. 1 (March 1, 1984): 115–19.
    • McWilliam, N., and A. Potts. “The Landscape of Reaction: Richard Wilson (1713?-1782) and His Critics.” History Workshop, no. 16 (1983): 171–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/4288529.
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    • Parsons, C., and N. McWilliam. “'Le Paysan de Paris': Alfred Sensier and the Myth of Rural France.” Oxford Art Journal 6, no. 2 (1983): 38–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360203.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “David d'Angers and the Panthéon Commission: Politics and Public Works under the July Monarchy'.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 5, no. 4 (December 1, 1982): 6–446.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Look At Life.” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians 4, no. 4 (December 1, 1981): 466–70.
    • McWilliam, N. “Paris. David d'Angers, Maître d'Hébert.” The Burlington Magazine 122, no. 933 (1980): 860–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/880184.
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    • McWilliam, N. “A Microcosm of the Universe: The Building of the University Museum.” Oxford Art Journal 1, no. ArticleType: research-article / Issue Title: Art in Oxford / Full publication date: 1978 / Copyright © 1978 Oxford University Press (1978): 23–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360082.
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  • Book Sections

    • McWilliam, Neil. “Degenerate Art: Impressionism and the Specter of Crisis in French Painting.” In A Companion to Impressionism, edited by André Dombrowski, 24:519–32. Hoboken & Oxford: Wiley, 2021.
    • McWilliam, Neil. “"Donner forme à une vie: Pierre-Auguste Renoir et la naissance des recherches sur l’impressionnisme".” In Face à  l’impressionnisme: Réception d’un Mouvement, 1910-1950, edited by Félicie Faizande de Maupeou and Claire Maingon, 233–50. Rouen: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019.
    • McWilliam, Neil. ““Traditional Views: Conservative Ideologies & Landscape Aesthetics in France around 1900”.” In Art as Worldmaking Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism, edited by Andrew Hemingway and Malcolm Baker, 128–44. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2018.
    • McWilliam, Neil. ““Roots: Landscapes of Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century”.” In A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, edited by Michelle Facos, 281–98. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Michel Melot et l’historiographie d’Honoré Daumier (Accepted).” In L’Histoire Sociale de l’art, edited by R. Froissart, N. McWilliam, and T. Porterfield. Les Presses du reel, 2015.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “La Bataille romantique 1900-1950 (Accepted).” In L’Histoire de l’art En France 1890-1950: Acteurs, Institutions, Enjeux, edited by Michela Passini and N. McWilliam. Les Presses du reel, 2014.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Au-delà de la ’République des arts’: les artistes, l’état et le marché au 19e siècle.” In Faire Art Comme on Fait Société. Les Nouveaux Commanditaires, edited by Christian Joschke, 515–32. Les Presses du réel, 2013.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Patrie et pédagogie: l’art national selon Léon Rosenthal.” In Léon Rosenthal (1870-1932), Militant, Critique et Historien de l’art, 209–22. Editions Hermann, 2013.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “A Sense of Place. Representing the Region in Nineteenth-Century France.” In Impressionist France. Le Gray to Monet, edited by Simon Kelly, 53–65. Saint Louis Art Museum, 2013.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “’L’Epoque n’a pas d’âme’. Critiques et chrétiens au Salon pendant la monarchie de juillet.” In La Critique d’art de La Révolution à La Monarchie de Juillet: Enjeux et Pratiques, edited by Lucie Lachenal and Catherine Méneux, 2013.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Le Romantisme comme enjeu.” In L’Histoire de l’art En France 1890-1950: Acteurs, Institutions, Enjeux, edited by N. F. NeilMcWilliam and Michela Passini. Les Presses du réel/ Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2013.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “How to change the world: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon.” In Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts, edited by J. C. Davis and Miguel Angel Ramiro Avilés, 106–12. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Au-delà de Pont-Aven: A la poursuite d’Emile Bernard.” In Emile Bernard: Au-Delà de Pont-Aven, edited by Neil McWilliam, 5–23. Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “’Ténébreux compagnons de toute solitude’: Emile Bernard et la littérature.” In Emile Bernard: Au-Delà de Pont-Aven, edited by Neil McWilliam, 27–53. Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “David d’Angers et la socialisation de l’exemplarité.” In L’Art Social En France de La Révolution à La Grande Guerre, edited by Neil McWilliam, Cathérine Meneux, and Julie Ramos, 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Avant-garde Anti-Modernism: Caricature and Cabaret Culture in Fin-de-siècle Montmartre.” In L’art de La Caricature, edited by Ségolène Le Men, 275–95. Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2011.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Comment peindre un tableau fouriériste.” In <em>Charles Fourier – l’écart Absolu</Em>, 50–65. Musée des beaux-arts, 2010.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Qui a peur de George Sand? Antiromantisme et antiféminisme chez les maurrassiens.” In <em>L’Action Française et La Culture</Em>, edited by N. F. McWilliam, M. Leymairie, and O. Dard, 173–84. Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2010.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “’Michel Melot et l’historiographie de Daumier’.” In L’Histoire Sociale de l’art, edited by Philippe Bordes. Les Presses du réel, 2010.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “’L’energie de la race’: La Provence dans la critique d’art de Joachim Gasquet.” In Visages de La Provence, edited by Valerie Minogue and Patrick Pollard, 165–77. Emile Zola Society, 2009.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “’Au-delà de la "République des arts": les artistes, l’étate et le marché au XIXe siècle’.” In Faire Art Comme on Fait Société. Les Nouveaux Commanditaires, edited by Christian Joschke, 515–32. Les Presses du réel, 2009.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Emile Bernard’s Reactionary Idealism.” In Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-Garde: Defining Modern & Traditional in France 1900-1960, edited by N. Adamson and T. Norris, 25–49. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “‘Erudition et engagement politique: la double vie de Louis Dimier’.” In L’Histoire de l’histoire de l’art En France Au XIXe Siècle, edited by R. Recht, P. Sénéchal, C. Barbillon, and F. -. R. Martin, 403–17. La Documentation française, 2008.
    • McWilliam, N. “The Culture of Nationalism.” In Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Developments and Contemporary Transitions, edited by Guntram Herb, 2008.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Lieux de mémoire, sites de contestation. Le Monument public comme enjeu politique, 1880-1914.” In La Statuaire Publique Au XIXe Siècle, edited by S Le Men, 104–15. Monum. Editions du Patrimoine, 2005.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Action française, Classicism, and the Dilemmas of Traditionalism in France 1900-1914.” In Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914, edited by J. Hargrove and N. McWilliam. Studies in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2004.
    • McWilliam, N. “Conflicting Manifestations: Parisian Commemoration of Joan of Arc and Etienne Dolet in the Early Third Republic,” 27:381–418, 2004. https://doi.org/10.2307/40324393.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “Ordering the Past. Nineteenth-Century French History Painting in Retrospect.” In History Painting in Nineteenth-Century France, edited by P. Cook and M. Ledbury. Manchester University Press, 2003.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Entries on Jean Baffier, Hugues Lapaire, Maxime Réal del Sarte, and Félix Vallotton.” In Dictionnaire Biographique et Géographique de l’Affaire Dreyfus, edited by P. Oriol, 2003.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “’Contre-révolution, contre-romantisme . . .’. Esthétique et politique dans l’Action fran¢aise.” In L’Invention Du XIXe Siècle. 2. Le XIXe Siècle Au Miroir Du XXe’, edited by Alain Corbin et al, 109–22. Klinckseick, Paris, 2002.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Von "Marat" bis "Thermidor": Die Interpretation der Revolution in der Dritten Republik in Frankreich.” In Revolution, Republik Und Reaction: Der Umgang Mit Dem Erbe Der Französischen Revolution 1871-1914, edited by G. Gersmann and H. Kohle, 99–118. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2002.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Peripheral Visions: Class, Cultural Aspiration and the Artisan Community in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France.” In Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts, edited by I. Gaskell and S. Kemal, 140–73. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Commemoration and the Politics of Iconoclasm: The Battle over "les Statues dreyfusardes", 1908-1910.” In Memory and Oblivion, edited by Adriaan Wessel Reinink and Jeroen Stumpel. Kluwer Academic Pub, 1999.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Mythologising Millet.” In Barbizon. Malerei Der Natur - Natur Der Malerei, edited by A. Burmester, C. Heilmann, and M. F. Zimmermann. Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1999.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Craft, Commerce and the Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism: Reproducing the Applied Art of Jean Baffier.” In Sculpture and Its Reproductions, edited by Anthony Hughes and Erich Ranfft. Reaktion Books, 1997.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Les David du XIXe siècle.” In Art Criticism and Its Institutions in Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Michael R. Orwicz. Manchester University Press, 1994.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Why were there no Great Saint-Simonian Artists?” In L’art et Les Révolutions: L’Art et Les Transformations Sociales Révolutionnaires, edited by W. Vaughan, 69–79. Strasbourg: CIHA, 1992.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Le Paysan au Salon.” In La Critique d’art En France, 1850-1900, edited by Jean Paul Bouillon, 81–94. Université de Saint-Etienne, 1989.

  • Other Articles

    • McWilliam, N. F., and N. Jungerman. “Entretien avec Neil McWilliam.” Florilettres. Fondation de la Poste, July 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Emile Bernard: Au-delà de Pont-Aven.” Edited by Neil McWilliam. Institut national d’histoire de l’art, January 2012.
    • McWilliam, N. F. “Sanat/Utopya. Mutluluk Hayalleri: Sosyal Sanat ve Fransiz solu (1830-1850).” Iletisim Yayinlari, November 2011.
    • McWilliam, N. “'Un enterrement à Paris': Courbet's Political Contacts in 1845.” The Burlington Magazine, 1983. https://doi.org/10.2307/881205.
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    • Schuster, V., D. Alston, and N. McWilliam. “Preface.” Oxford Art Journal, 1978. https://doi.org/10.2307/1360077.
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    • McWilliam, N. F. “’L’Epoque n’a pas d’âme’: Critiques et chrétiens au Salon pendant la monarchie de Juillet (Accepted).” Edited by C. Méneux, n.d.
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  Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances

  • Emile Bernard. Au-delà de Pont-Aven | at Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris 2012
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  Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

  • Exhibits

    • Emile Bernard. Au-delà de Pont-Aven. Creator. 2012
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • 'L'Epoque n'a pas d'âme': Critiques et chrétiens pendant la monarchie de Juillet'. November 26, 2013  2013
  • Shaping A Life: P.-A. Renoir and the Birth of Impressionist Scholarship. December 7, 2012  2012
  • Patrie et pédagogie: l'art national selon Léon Rosenthal. November 25, 2012  2012
  • Anti-modernes?, anti-modernité?. March 25, 2012  2012
  • Picturing the Spiritual. Debates on Christian Art in the French Third Republic. March 17, 2012  2012
  • Patriotism in Paint: The American Example. March 3, 2012  2012
  • L'Action française et l'esthétique. December 19, 2011  2011
  • The Tradition of Tradition from Bernard to Maroger. December 19, 2011  2011
  • David d'Angers et la socialisation de l'exemplarité. December 1, 2011  2011
  • A la recherche de l'Ameerique profonde: l'art patriotique contemporain et l'idée de communauté nationale. December 19, 2010  2010
  • Homeland Security: Visualizing Identity. December 19, 2010  2010
  • The Politics of Idealism in French Art, 1900-1914. December 19, 2010  2010
  • Qui a peur de George Sand?: Antiromantisme et antiféminisme chez l'Action française, Sciences Po, Paris, February 2009. November 6, 2009  2009
  • Emile Bernard and Pictorial Traditionalism. December 17, 2008  2008
  • Ipsius fecit: Les Autoportraits d'Emile Bernard. December 17, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Joint organizer (with Laura Karp-Lugo) : Institut national d'histoire de l'art. March 27, 2012  2012
  • Joint organizer : L'art social en France, de la Révolution à la Grande Guerre. 2011  2011
  • Joint organizer : L'historiographie française de l'art de l'affaire Dreyfus à la Quatrième République: nouvelles perspectives. 2011  2011
  • Member, Organizing Committee, International conference, l'Action Française et la culture, 1900-1950, Sciences Po, Paris, February 2009. December 16, 2009  2009
  • Joint conference organizer, L'Art français à l'étranger dans la première partie du XXe siècle, L'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris. November 25, 2009  2009
  • Joint organizer : La Nation, enjeu de l'histoire de l'art. November 10, 2008  2008
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  Service to Duke

  • Guest curator, 'Abusing Power. Satirical Journals from the Rare Book Collection,' Perkins Library, Duke University, February-March 2010. November 6, 2009 - November 6, 2009  2009
  • Guest curator, 'Lines of Attack. Conflicts in Caricature,' Nasher Museum of Art. November 6, 2009 - November 6, 2009  2009

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