Dana Kristofor Lindaman
College Fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures
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Academic Degrees: Cértificat d'approfondissement de la langue française, IFCAD – Brussels;
B.A., University of Minnesota; M.A., Columbia University – Reid Hall, Paris; Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests:
Grants and Awards:
GSAS Completion Fellowship (2007-2008)
Westengard Travel Grant (summer 2002, 2003)
ENS Exchange Fellowship to Paris (2004-2005)
Derek Bok Center Travel Study Prize for excellence in teaching (spring 2006)
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (fall 2003, spring 2004, fall 2005, spring 2006)
Recent Publications:
History Lessons, New York: The New Press, 2004, Reviewed (co-authored with Kyle R. Ward) 432pp.
“Foreign Textbooks in the History Classroom,” International Textbook Research, Braunschweig: Georg Eckert Institute, 25.2 (2003): 41-54.
“Les Manuels scolaires aux Etats-unis: un champ de bataille pour une identité nationale,” Outre-Terre, “Enseigner la nation,” 12.2 (2005): 291-299.
Conference Papers:
“The Formation of Critical Thinking in the French Educational System”
Equinoxe: savoir apprendre / à prendre, Brown University (2002)
“Les manuels scolaires aux Etats-unis: un champ de bataille pour une identité nationale”
Enseigner la Nation, Paris IV: la Sorbonne Nouvelle (2005)
“The Frontiers of French Identity”
GAFIS: Defining Spaces, UW-Madison (2006)
Professional Affiliations:
Daedalos Institute of Geopolitics (Cyprus)
Member, international advisory board for non-profit organization dedicated to informing policy-makers about the world’s most volatile regions. This includes writing and soliciting articles for the sister journals published in conjunction with the institute: Outre-Terre (Paris) and Geopolitical Affairs (Cyprus).
Comité scientifique de l’Académie européenne de géopolitique (Paris)
Member, international advisory board for French organization working on geopolitical affairs.
Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (Jerusalem/NY)
Member International Advisory Board (non-profit organization whose members examine the content of history textbooks to promote peaceful conflict resolution.)
Poetry@Harvard
Former technology fellow, now advisor, for Harvard’s new digital poetry resource. I digitally mapped out and organized Harvard’s resources in French poetry.
Historicizing the Self (University of Minnesota)
An informal, interdisciplinary workshop of scholars from across the university seeking to understand the ways in which concepts of the self have changed over time and cross-cultures.
Courses Offered in 2009-2010:
French 152. La Poésie française au XIXe siècle - (New Course) [spring term]
French 162. Voyages of Self-Discovery - (New Course) [fall term]
French 172. Twentieth-Century Republican Geographies - (New Course) [fall term]
For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 4, 2009
