Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Christopher A. Blackburn
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Department of History & Government
Monroe, LA 71209-0360
(318) 342-1550
E-Mail: blackburn@ulm.edu
Webpage: www.ulm.edu/~blackburn

Title: Professor of History, University of Louisiana at Monroe

Education:
Auburn University: Ph.D. (1996).
Auburn University: M.A. (1991).
Auburn University at Montgomery: B.A. (1988).

Foreign Study:
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski: Lublin, Poland (Summer 2000).
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowska: Lublin, Poland (1994-95).
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski: Krakow, Poland (Summer 1994).
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski: Lublin, Poland (Summer 1990).

Selected Honors and Awards:
2004-07: William R. Hammond Professorship in Liberal Arts (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
2003: Outstanding Honors Faculty (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
2002: Outstanding Honors Faculty (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
2001: Oustanding Professor in the College of Liberal Arts (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
2000: Outstanding Honors Faculty (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
2000: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellowship (Seminar on the Holocaust in Poland).
1999-00: ULM Faculty Development Grant (Research Grant to Poland).
1999: Outstanding Honors Faculty (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
1998: Summer Teacher's Institute Grant (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities).
1995-96: W.C. Bradley Award for Achievement in the Humanities (Auburn University).
1995-96: Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence (Auburn University).
1994-95: J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship (Full Research Grant to Poland).
1993-94: American Council of Learned Societies (East European Travel Grant).
1991-92: Kosciuszko Foundation Domestic Scholarship.

Selected Publications:
“Poland and France: Enlightened Constitutionalism in the Duchy of Warsaw,” in Political Options of the Central-Eastern European Peoples in the 19th Century. ed. Pavel Teodor (Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Argonaut Press, 2006), 133-159.

Napoleon and the Szlachta. Boulder/New York: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998. East European Monographs, No. 497.

"Marriage, Inheritance, and Family Discord: French Elite and the Transformation of the Polish Szlachta," World History Review, 3 (2004), 2-20.

"War and Society in Napoleonic Poland," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2003, (forthcoming).

"Napoleon Bonaparte," Louisiana Purchase/La Cession de la Louisiana (1803-2003): A History in Documents and Maps. ed. Sylvia Frey (New Orleans, LA: Tulane Educational Fund, 2003).

"The Polish Peasantry in the Late 18th Century," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2001, (Tallahassee, FL: Institute for Napoleonic Studies, 2003), 118-126.

"Serfs Without Serfdom: Napoleon's Polish Experiment," Napoleonic Scholarship: The Journal of the International Napoleonic Society, 3 (1999), 33-40.

"Reform or Renewal?: The Impact of the Napoleonic State on the Provencial Society of the Department Lubelski," Annales: Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, Sectio F, vol. L (1995), 133-156.

"Poles in the Confederacy? Who Let'em In!: The Grand Junction Riot of 1861," The West Tennessee Historical, 47 (1993), 11-17.

"Prince Poniatowski finds an Army: West Galician Attitudes in 1809," 22nd Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, (Tallahassee, FL: Institute for Napoleonic Studies, 1993), 215-222.

"Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817)," in Historic World Leaders. ed. Anne Commire. (Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc., 1994), 2: 739-743.

Selected Professional Presentations:
“Napoleonic Constitutionalism in the Duchy of Warsaw,” Consortium on theRevolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Atlanta, Georgia (March 2006).

“Jean-Pierre Norblin’s Account of Life in Partitioned Poland,” Conference of the North Louisiana Collegium of Historical Studies, Monroe, Louisiana (February 2005).

"Society & Culture in Napoleonic Europe," An Evening with Napoleon, Ruston, Louisiana (November 2003).

"War and Society in Napoleonic Poland," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Lafayette, Louisiana (February 2003).

"The Polish Peasantry in The Late 18th Century," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Auburn, Alabama (February 2001).

"Domestic Violence and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives on Spousal Abuse in Eighteenth-Century Poland," Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, Alabama (Nov. 1998).

"Defending the Patrimony: Polish Elites and the Code Napoleon," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Tallahassee, Florida (March 1998).

"Divorcing Tradition: Szlachta Family Discord in Late Eighteenth Century Poland," Carleton Conference on the History of the Family, Ottawa, Canada (May 1997).

"Recasting the Szlachta Family: The Impact of French Elite Culture East of the Vistula, 1750-1815," Western Society for French History, Charlotte, North Carolina (November 1996).

"A Society in Crisis: The Role of Napoleonic Constitutionalism in Recasting the Provencial Society of the Department Lubelski," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850, Savannah, Georgia (February 1996).

"Continuity Through Change: The Impact of the Napoleonic Era on the Elite Society of Lubelszczyzna," Polish Fulbright Commission Lecture, Lublin, Poland (April 1995).

"The Domination of an Ally: Napoleonic Repression of the Duchy of Warsaw," New England Slavic Association, Providence, Rhode Island (April 1993).

"`He Will Never Create Anything Durable:' Napoleon's Repression of Polish National Aspirations," Western Society for French History, Orcas Island, Washington (October 1992).

"Prince Poniatowski Finds an Army: West Galician Attitudes in 1809," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Auburn, Alabama (February 1992).

"Polish Responses to Napoleonic Propaganda, 1806-1807," Western Society for French History, Reno, Nevada (November 1991).