Laura Talamante is a Professor of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills. At CSU Dominguez Hills, she teaches courses in European and Women’s History. She specializes in eighteenth-century Enlightenment and French revolutionary women and gender history. Dr. Talamante also guides student research in French and global revolutionary history, focusing on issues of human rights and social justice.
Dr. Talamante earned her Ph.D. in History at UCLA, where her, “Les Citoyennes Marseillaises: Women and Political Change during the French Revolution,” won the Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. She has published on women and citizenship development in eighteenth-century France, in both English and French-language journals. Her most recent article, “Political divisions, gender and politics: the case of revolutionary Marseille” was published by French History (Oxford University Press) in March 2017. Dr. Talamante is also the co-author of “Transgresser au féminin : Rose Michel Reynoir, une féministe avant la lettre,” with Dr. Christophe Regina (Université de Toulouse), forthcoming in Transgresser, une voie pour les femmes? Genre, récits et usages de la transgression (Presses Universitaires de Provence). She has also published on innovative teaching pedagogy, using comparative global perspectives in publications such as The History Teacher.
Dr. Talamante has received numerous honors and awards, including French residential fellowships from the Brown Foundation for the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes and from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Dr. Talamante has also worked collaboratively to bring educational history and cultural events to her campus. To this end, she has won two French American Cultural Exchange Tournée Festival of French Films grants and a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture grant, among others. She has been elected to serve as the Chair of the Academic Senate and Gender Equity Task Force.
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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT & PRINCIPAL POSITIONS
| Professor of History | California State University Dominguez Hills | 2018-Present |
| Co-Chair, Gender Equity Task Force | 2019-2020 | |
| Vice-Chair, Academic Senate | 2019-2020 | |
| Chair, Academic Senate | 2017-2019 | |
| Faculty Advising Fellow | 2015-2017 | |
| Associate Professor of History | 2013-2018 | |
| Principal Investigator & Co-Project Director, NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture | 2010-2011 | |
| Assistant Professor of History | 2007-2013 | |
| Advisor, History & Social Science Subjects Matter Preparation Program | 2009-2010 | |
| Principal Investigator, French American Cultural Exchange French Film Grant, Tournées Festival | 2008, 2012 | |
| Lecturer & Visiting Assistant Professor of History | Loyola Marymount University | 2003-2007 |
| Lecturer, Department of History | California State Polytechnic Pomona | 2005-2007 |
EDUCATION
| Ph. D. University of California at Los Angeles, History Department Dissertation: Les Citoyennes Marseillaises: Women and Political Change during the French Revolution | 2003 |
| M.A. University of California at Los Angeles, History Department | 1998 |
| B.A. University of California at Berkeley, History Department Honors in History & Honors in Overall Academia, College of Letters & Science Honor’s Thesis: Women and Education in the French Revolution | 1995 |
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Women’s Rights and the Development of Citizenship in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France
- European Early Modern & Modern History
- European Early Modern & Modern Women’s History
- Co-Curricular Event Planning
- Curriculum Design & Development
- Assessment of Program & Student Learning Outcomes
- Writing Across the Curriculum & High Impact Practices
- Developmental Advising
- Faculty Governance
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
REFEREED ARTICLES
“Mapping Women’s Revolutionary Control of their Environment & Property in Marseille: A Digital Humanities Project,” in preparation for submission to the Journal of the Western Society for French History
“Political Divisions, Gender and Politics: The Case of Revolutionary Marseille,” French History 31, no. 1, (March 2017): 63-84.
“Creating the Republican Family: Political and Social Transformation and the Revolutionary Family Tribunal,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 38, (2010): 143-162.
“Lawyers, Libel, Marriage and Honor in Old Regime and Revolutionary Marseille” The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850: 2008 Selected Papers, (2009): 19-30.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
“Mapping Women’s Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille,” in Life in Revolutionary France, edited by Jennifer Heuer and Mette Harder, to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2020.
“Transgresser au féminin: Rose Michel Reynoir, une féministe avant la letter,” co-authored with Christophe Regina, in Genres, normes, transgressions, ed. by Karine Lambert et Nicole Cadène, to be published by Presses Universitaires de Provence in 2020.
“Une héroïne malentendu: Le récit édifiant de la Dame Rose-Michel Reynoir,” in Récit et Justice : France, Italie, Espagne XIVe-XIXe Siècles, ed. by Lucien Faggion and Christophe Regina, Aix-en-Provence, Presses Universitaires de Provence, (2014), 323-344.
REFEREED TEACHING PUBLICATIONS
“Globalizing Migration Dialogue: A Model for Combining Innovative Pedagogy, Community-Service Learning and Research,” Laura Talamante and Caroline Mackenzie, in Approaches to Managing Organizational Diversity and Innovation, edited by Nancy D. Erbe, IGI Global, Hershey Pennsylvania, (2014), 326-351.
“Teaching United States History with an Eye to the World,” The History Teacher, Vol. 41, No. 3 (May 2008): 391-404.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830, Jennifer Ngaiere Heuer, European History Quarterly 39 No. 1, (January, 2009), 149-151.
Letters Written in France by Helen Maria Williams, edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser, H-France Review 5, No. 35 (March 2005).
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE
“Flora Tristan,” Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, Greenwood Press, 2007.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
| CSUDH Excellence in Service Award | 2018 |
| Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France | 2014 |
| Fulbright Research Award for France, Finalist | 2013 |
| CSUDH Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity Award | 2014, 2015 |
| CSUDH Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, Summer | 2013 |
| Presidential Award, Advisor of the Year, Phi Alpha Theta, Tau Epsilon Chapter | 2013 |
| French American Cultural Exchange French Film Grant, Tournées Festival | 2012, 2008 |
| CSUDH College of Arts and Humanities Conference Travel Grant 2011 | 2011 |
| Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers Grant | 2010-2011 |
| California State University Transforming Course Design in U.S. History Team | 2009 |
| Faculty Legacy Award, CSU Dominguez Hills | 2008 |
| Faculty Inspiration Award, CSUDH McNair Scholars | 2008 |
| Center for Teaching and Learning Travel Grants, CSU Dominguez Hills | 2007, 2008 |
| College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences Travel Grant, Cal Poly Pomona | 2007 |
| The Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | 2004 |
| Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship | 2002-2003 |
| UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies, Title VI Fellowship | 2001-2002 |
| UCLA Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant | 2002 |
| Camargo Foundation Residential Fellowship – Cassis, France | 2000 |
| UCLA History Department Eugene Weber Chair Travel Grant | 1999 |
| UCLA History Department Summer Research Grant | 1999 |
| UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Mentorship Program | 1997 |
| UCLA Project 88 Fellowship | 1995-1999 |
| UC Berkeley Student Life Achievement Award | 1995 |
| UC Berkeley Mary Ann Johnson Alumni Leadership Scholarship | 1994 |
| CAL Alumni Leadership Scholarship | 1993 |
| UC Berkeley McNair Scholar | 1993 |
SELECTED RESEARCH CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
| “Mapping Women’s Revolutionary Control of their Environment in Marseille through Property Rights,” Western Society for French History | 2019 |
| “Daring to Take Her Lawyer’s Pen: Judicial Memoires in Enlightenment and Revolutionary Marseille,” Northeast Modern Language Association | 2015 |
| “Staging Patriotism in Revolutionary Marseille: The Act of Giving as Marker of Women’s Citizenship,” Western Society for French History | 2011 |
| “Marital Battles, Polemical Pamphlets, and Female Litigants: Constructions of Gender and Class in Enlightenment Provence,” Western Association for Women Historians | 2011 |
| “Federalist v. Jacobin Women: The Struggle for the Republic in Revolutionary Marseille,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 | 2011 |
| “Connecting Experiences Across Communities,” CSU Southern Regional Conference on Community-Based Research, Co-presenters: Dr. Vivian Price, CSUDH Interdisciplinary Studies and Labor Studies and Rikka Racelis, Youth Coordinator, The Center Long Beach | 2010 |
| “Marriage, Family, Honor, and Divorce: Transforming Women’s Rights in Revolutionary Marseille,” Society for French Historical Studies | 2009 |
| “‘Les héroïnes marseillaises’: Militant Representation and Accommodation of Women’s Political Action in Revolutionary Marseille,” Society for French Historical Studies | 2008 |
| « Demander son héritage: Rose-Michel Reynoir devant les tribunaux, » Congrès International des Lumières, Montpellier, France | 2007 |
| “Good Fathers, Good Mothers, Sons and Daughters All: Petitioning Robespierre’s Representants in Marseille during the Terror,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 | 2007 |
| “From Heroines to Viragoes: Revolutionary Women in Image and Deed in Marseille,” Western Society for French History | 2007 |
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
| “Bastille Day: Its Historic Significance in a Local, National, and Global Context,” Santa Monica Rotary Club, July 14, 2017. | 2017 |
| « Transgresser au féminin : Rose Michel Reynoir, une féministe avant la lettre, » with Christophe Regina. Genre et transgressions : pratiques, stratégies, représentations dans l’espace euro-méditerranéen (XVIe-XXIe siècles), Genre, Femmes, Méditerranée, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence | 2014 |
| Salon à la Maison Dora Maar, Rencontres avec des artistes en résidences : Laura Talamante, Joel Dreyfuss, and Maren Stange, Ménerbes, France. | 2014 |
| A Daughter Worth Investing In: French Family Inheritance Strategies under Roman Law, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, CSUDH Osher Lecture Series | 2014 |
| “Sex, Scandal and Power Relations: From Marseille to Venice, Conjugal Disturbances, Elites and Society in the 18th Century,” College of Arts and Humanities Spring Brown Bag Lecture Series | 2013 |
| “Ce n’est pas le genre mais les politiques: Les transgressions des femmes pendant la Révolution à Marseille.” Genre et transgressions : pratiques, stratégies, représentations dans l’espace euro-méditerranéen (XVIe-XXIe siècles), Genre, Femmes, Méditerranée, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence | 2013 |
| “‘Good Fathers,’ ‘Tender Mothers,’ and the ‘Young Marseillais’: Arranged Marriages, Divorce, and French Revolutionary Changes in Family Law,” Panelist Paradoxical Relationships: Histories of Marriage and Women’s Rights, Huntington Women’s Studies Seminar | 2012 |
| “The Interwar Years: French Jazz and the New Cabaret Culture,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, CSUDH Osher Lecture Series | 2009 |
| “Citizenship Practices in 18th-Century France: La Citoyenne in Revolutionary Marseille,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, CSUDH Emeritus Faculty Association Legacy Series | 2009 |
| Flores de otro mundo, Introduction and Discussion Moderator, Spanish Women Film Festival at CSUDH | 2009 |
| NEH “The Immigrant Experience: A Journey to Becoming American,” OASIS, Series Guest Lecturer, Lakewood, CA | 2009 |
| “Teaching U.S. History and Franco-American Relations,” NEH Teaching American History Institute: Cal Poly Pomona Grant | 2007 |
COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP
| Campus Liaison, The History of Black Dance in America: Juneteenth Celebration! A multi-media dance concert showcasing the African-American contributions to American social dance. Starting from the late 1800s and progressing to the modern era. Directed by Ron Parker and Chester Whitmore, featuring The Central Avenue Dance Ensemble, co-sponsored by the Department of History and the College of Arts and Humanities. | 2015 |
| Co-Producer of Steppin' Ahead! Dancers Breaking Down the Color Line, Black History Month. An event featuring student performances in tap and Lindy Hop dances, and choral renditions of jazz songs from the 1910s to the 1940s with a screening of film clips of the era’s dances. Presented by the CSUDH Dance, History, Music and Theater programs and produced by Rusty Frank, a dance historian and professional choreographer. Phi Alpha Theta History students helped narrate the event and designed historical exhibits focusing on the jazz and swing dance history in Los Angeles. | 2013 |
| NEH National Landmarks of History and Culture Workshops for High School Teachers, “American History through the Eyes of a California Family, 1780s-1920s” Project with the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum that traces the Dominguez family business and inheritance strategies and interactions with natives and migrants from varied backgrounds. Hosted two groups of 40 K-12 teachers from across the nation and provided workshops and field trips to inspire the development of new lesson plans for world, national, regional, and local history using the experiences of the Dominguez family from the late 1800s through WWII. | 2011 |
| Humanities Consultant for Tradeswomen Address the Next Generation Supported by a California Council for the Humanities Grant, the project partnerships with youth volunteers from The Center Long Beach to record and archive stories from tradeswomen in LA County. | 2009 |
| Empowerment and Migration (E&M) Exhibition Los Angeles and Marseille exhibit on “Citizenship and Migrants” sponsored by the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind. CSUDH student contributions based on immigrant interviews. | 2008 |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
| HERS Institute, Summer Leadership Development Alumni | 2019 |
| Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Democracy Conference (AACU), San Diego, CA | 2019 |
| American Association of Colleges & Universities Conference, Washington, D.C | 2018 |
| CSUDH HIPs Conference Writing Retreat, Santa Barbara (July 23-26) | 2017 |
| CSUDH Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Fellow, Course Redesign Workshop | 2016 |
| California Collaborative Academic Advising Conference, Carson, CA | 2015 |
| CSUDH Annual Advising Summit | 2015 |
| CSUDH Grants for My Research Intersession/Spring 2015 Program | 2015 |
| Women Leaders in Education Forum, L.A. Commission on the Status of Women | 2008 |
| ECLP “Writing Across the Curriculum” Conference, CSUDH | 2007 |
PEDAGOGICAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
| Laura Talamante and Doris Namala, “Student Perceptions of High-Impact Practices in Historical Research: Writing Across the Curriculum, Disciplinary Transparency, and Professional Development,” High-Impact Practices in the States, CSUDH | 2018 |
| CSUDH Get HIP With Teaching Symposium, "Undergraduate Research Within and Beyond the Classroom" Panel | 2015 |
| “Film as History: Modern France as a Lens,” Revisioning History and Popular Culture: French Film and Teaching Roundtable, Society for French Historical Studies | 2012 |
| “Developing Educational Projects and Community Awareness: Migration History As A Tool And A Resource,” C. Mackenzie and L. Talamante, International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation, Madrid, Spain | 2009 |
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION SERVICE
| Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, CSUDH Campus Leader Meetings | 2017-Present |
| California Doctoral Incentive Program, Faculty Mentor for History Alum, Marya Avila (University of Texas, El Paso, History Doctoral Program) | 2011-Present |
| Pizza, Profs and Platica, Latina/o Faculty-Student Mixer | 2009, 2011 |
| Coordinator, CSUDH International Women’s Month Film Series | 2009 |
| Latinas Juntas, Faculty Leader | 2008-2011 |
| McNair Scholars Invited Speaker on Research Methods, CSUDH | 2008, 2009 |
| Latino Faculty and Staff Association | 2007-Present |
| Women's Studies Advisory Board | 2007-2015 |
| University of California Welcomes the Western Region of McNair Scholars and Program Directors, Invited Panel Speaker | 2002 |
| UC Berkeley Sexual Harassment Peer Educator | 1994-1995 |
| American River College Hispanic Scholars Club, President | 1990-1992 |
| Sacramento Latinas Leadership Network Member; Assisted in planning and implementation of First Annual Adelante Latinas Conference | 1990-1992 |
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
| Western Society for French History, Elected Council Member (3-year term) | 2014-2017 |
| The Journal of the Western Society for French History, Peer Reviewer | 2016, 2017 |
| La culture judiciaire du Moyen Âge à nos jours, ed. by Lucien Faggion, Christophe Regina, and Bernard Ribémont, (Universitaires de Dijon), Peer Reviewer | 2014 |
| CAMS National History Day Judge | 2012 |
| The History Teacher, Adjunct Reviewer | 2010 |
| History Day in California Judge, Peary Middle School | 2009, 2011 |
| The Making of the West: People and Cultures, Vol. 2, Third Edition, Peer Reviewer | 2008 |
| Advanced Placement World History Exam Reader, Educational Testing Service | 2006-2008 |
| Western Society for French History Conference, Site Coordinator | 2002 |
| Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, Book Review Assistant | 2001-2002 |
| Western Society for French History Conference, Web Design | 2001 |
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
| Academic Senate Vice Chair and Faculty Policy Committee Member | 2016-2017 |
| California Faculty Association Lobby Day, Sacramento (April 5-6) | 2017 |
| Graduation Innovation Team, Faculty Advising Fellow | 2015-2017 |
| University Advising Council, Faculty Advising Fellow | 2015-2017 |
| WSCUC Task Force, Critical Thinking Core | 2015-2016 |
| University Budget Committee | 2014-2016 |
| Faculty Leaves and Honors Committee (Chair, 2015-2016) | 2014-2016 |
| University Research, Scholarship, Creative Activities Awards Program Committee | 2010-2012 |
| University Committee on Educator Preparation | 2010-2011 |
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES SERVICE
| College Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee | 2016-2017 |
| College Student Success Committee, Faculty Advising Fellow | 2016-2017 |
| Student Success Center Faculty/Advising Search Committee | 2016 |
| Humanities Master of Arts, Thesis Committee Member for Javier Garcia, The Tale of Two Cities: The Representation of the City in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus | 2015-2016 |
| Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, Interdisciplinary Studies | 2014-2015 |
| Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, Communications | 2014-2016 |
| HUX Master of Arts Thesis Committee Chair, Shandi Stevenson, Religions of Revolution: The merging of religious and political in the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being in France 1793-1794 | 2012-2013 |
| HUX Master of Arts Thesis Committee Chair, Nikole Hollenitsch, La querelle des femmes: Female salon leaders' influence and representation in seventeenth and eighteenth-century France | 2012-2013 |
| Interdisciplinary Studies Job Search Committee | 2008 |
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY SERVICE
| Asian-Pacific History Search Committee | 2019-2020 |
| Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee | 2015-2016 |
| US 20th Century History Search Committee, Chair | 2014-2015 |
| Kilfoil Scholarship Committee | 2014-2015 |
| Curriculum Committee | 2014-2018 |
| Curriculum Committee, Chair | 2012-2013 |
| Program Planning Committee, Chair | 2010-2011 |
| Curriculum Committee | 2010-2011 |
| Phi Alpha Theta, Tau Epsilon Chapter Faculty Advisor (Co-advisor Fall 2013 to Spring 2017) | 2009-2017 |
| History Club, Co-Advisor | 2016-2017 |