Curriculum Vitae

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Modern European History

• Twentieth Century France

• Cultural History

TEACHING: 

Point Park University, Associate Professor of History 2007 - 2023

• Director of the Core Spring 2017 – May 2019

• Freshmen Experience Faculty Leader Fall 2013-August 2016

University of Virginia

• • • • Instructor, History and English Departments 2004-2006

      • Teaching Assistant & Grader, History Department 2000-2004

PUBLICATIONS:

Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation Lexington Books, 2021

*all items below published as Jehnie I. Reis

• “Creating a new community in the ‘zone’: Borders, Foreignness and the Cité Universitaire in interwar Paris” in Journal of Contemporary European Studies 25, no. 4                                                        

• «L'identité indochinoise en question: idéalisme français et dissidences à la Cité Universitaire de Paris dans l’entre-deux-guerres» /“Debating Indochinese Identity: French Idealism and Interwar Protest at the Cité Universitaire” in “La mobilisation des immigrés pour la décolonisation. France, 1930-1970” Migrance No. 39                                        

• “Cultural internationalism at the Cité Universitaire: international education between the First and Second World Wars” in History of Education Vol. 39 No. 2 (2010)

CONFERENCES, & INSTITUTES:

• “Maximizing Engagement in Gender and Historical Theory Using Graphic Novels” with Sera Mathew at the Pittsburgh Regional Faculty Symposium                                                                         

• “Mixtape, Soundtrack, or Playlist: an analysis of the curated song collection” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference                            

• “Don’t Dream It, Be It: Low-Cost, High-Impact Approaches to Instituting Inclusive Excellence” at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Democracy: The Inconvenient Truths AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal; Panel participant with fellow Point Park University members                                                

• AAC&U Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success Member of Point Park University Team at Boston University         

• "Mixtape Nostalgia: American youth culture and memory" at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference                                                                                    

• “Urban Modernism in the Margins: The Creation of the Cité Universitaire in Interwar Paris,” at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference                                                        

• “Creating a new community in the “zone”: Borders, Foreignness and the Cité Universitaire in Interwar Paris” at the City Margins City Memories Interdisciplinary Conference                    

• “News From Abroad” – Panel Chair and “Presenting French Diversity to ‘others’ in the Interwar Metropole” at the Idea of France Conference                                                                      

• “International Education and Philanthropy at the Cité Universitaire de Paris in the               

• Interwar Era” at the Midwest Conference on British Studies

• “French views of Japan in the interwar era: the Fondation Satsuma” at RMIHC                        

• “Questions of Self Definition: the Indochina House at the Cité Universitaire”  French Colonial Historical Society Annual Meeting

EDUCATION:     

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

PhD in History                                                                                                                    2001-2007

Dissertation: “French and Foreign Students in Interwar Paris: Creating the Cité Universitaire”

Exam Fields: Modern Europe, Modern France, Middle Eastern History

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

MA in History                                                                                                                      2000-2002

Thesis: “Advertising in Second Empire France: The reinforcement and restructuring

of gender ideology in journal advertisements”

 Tulane University, Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA                                 

BA in History and French – Cum Laude                                                                              1992-1996

Université de Paris IV Paris, France                                                                                    1994-1995

         Tulane/Newcomb Junior Year Abroad Program

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Historical Association

• International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US

• Popular Culture Association

• H-France

• Society for French Historical Studies

• Heinz History Center

• Historical Society of Mount Lebanon