Donald M. Reid
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Research Interests
Reid's major fields of research are European political, social and cultural history, 1815-present. He has written The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization; Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations; and Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, and the Politics of Memories of the French Resistance. For his current research, consult his c.v. (accessible below). His current advisees are writing dissertations on French national identity and French responses to the American phase of the Indochinese War; the gendered and ethnic worlds of the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles; twentieth-century French and German intellectuals’ projects of cross-national engagement; and the collective memory of harki communities in France.
View a web version of Prof. Reid's curriculum vitae (in PDF).
Graduate Students Advised by Don Reid
- Bethany Keenan (co-advised by Lloyd Kramer)
- Michael Mulvey (co-advised by Lloyd Kramer)
- Elana Passman
- Laura Sims
Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 140 -- The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective: The World Since 1945
- HIST 140 -- The World Since 1945 (Maymeister 2009)
- HIST
140 -- The World Since 1945 (Second Summer Session 2009)
- HIST 291 --
Putting Literature and History in Dialogue
- HIST 292H --
Fascism, Communism, and the Camps
- HIST 397 - History and Cinematic Imagination
- HIST 397 --
History and Literary Imagination
- HIST 712 -- Colloquium on Modern Europe
- HIST 776 -- Topics in the History of Modern France, 1815-Present
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
dreid1@email.unc.edu

