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EMILY CLARK
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tulane, 1998
Emily Clark is the Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History. She specializes in early American and Atlantic world history. Her research interests include religion, gender, race, and historical memory.
Research Interests
Early America and the Atlantic World, particularly the Francophone Atlantic. I am especially interested in the ways that the history of places like Louisiana and the French Antilles can illuminate the development of racial, ethnic, and national identities in other parts of colonial and early national America. My next book, due out from University of North Carolina Press in spring 2013, The Strange History of the American Quadroon, historicizes the figures of the quadroon and the "tragic mulatta," their links with Haiti and New Orleans, and the role they have played in shaping national memory and identity.
Teaching Interests
Early North America (1492-1800), Atlantic World (1450-1888), Revolutionary America and Caribbean (1776-1804), Louisiana and New Orleans, religion, gender, and the history of race and race relations. Also, archival skills and paleography and the development of web-based student projects. I am especially interested in working with students who wish to make use of the rich colonial and early national manuscript records housed in New Orleans archives.
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Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Charlotte: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_i...
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Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727-1760
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007
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“Refracted Reformations and the Making of Republicans”
Peter J. Kastor and François Weil, eds., Empires of the Imagination: Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009), 180-203.
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"How American Is New Orleans? What the Founding Era Has to Tell Us"
In Samuel C. Ramer and Blair A. Ruble, Place, Identity, and Urban Culture: Odesa and New Orleans, Kennen Institute Occasional Paper #31 (Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2008).
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"Hail Mary Down by the Riverside: Black and White Catholic Women in Early America"
In Catherine A. Brekus, The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 91-107.
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"The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852"
With Virginia M. Gould, William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser. 59:2 (April 2002): 409-448. Winner of the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for Best Article on Southern Women's History, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2003.
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Professeur Invitée, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2010)
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Julia Cherry Spruill Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians (2008)
Awarded to Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society: 1727-1834
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Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History (2008)
Given by the Louisiana Historical Association and the Historic New Orleans Foundation to Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society: 1727-1834
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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2010)
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Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, Historic New Orleans Collection (2010)
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Distinguished Book Award of the History of Women Religious Conference
Awarded June 2010 to Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society: 1727-1834
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Saint-Louis, Senegal/New Orleans Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana April 22-25, 2013 will be the site of the second part of an international conference, "Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans:The Comparative and Linked History of Two Port Cities on Each Side of the Atlantic from the 17th to the 19th Centuries," cosponsored by Tulane, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, in exclusive partnership with RFI (Radio France Internationale). Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History and associate professor of history, is the conference organizer for Tulane.
For more about RFI: www.rfi.fr
http://www.english.rfi.fr/
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Emily Clark, Curriculum Vitae
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CONTACT INFORMATION
| Office: | Hebert 215H |
| Hours: | T 1-4 pm & W 10am-noon |
| Phone: | (504) 862-8605 |
| Email: | eclark@tulane.edu |
WHAT'S NEW
The Strange History of the American Quadroon
Coming in March 2013 from the University of North Carolina Press, The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.
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Saint-Louis, Senegal/New Orleans Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana April 22-25, 2013 will be the site of the second part of an international conference, "Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans:The Comparative and Linked History of Two Port Cities on Each Side of the Atlantic from the 17th to the 19th Centuries," cosponsored by Tulane, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, in exclusive partnership with RFI (Radio France Internationale). Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History and associate professor of history, is the conference organizer for Tulane.
For more about RFI: www.rfi.fr
http://www.english.r...
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2010)
Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, Historic New Orleans Collection (2010)
Distinguished Book Award of the History of Women Religious Conference
Awarded June 2010 to Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society: 1727-1834
On leave spring semester 2011
2011 ATLAS Grant
A grant from the Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars of the Louisiana State Board of Regents supported a year's research leave to complete the manuscript of Strange History of the American Quadroon.
History Detectives
August 30 at 8 pm CDT, Professor Clark will appear as one of the on-screen historians on the PBS program, “The History Detectives,” in a segment about a free woman of color in colonial New Orleans.
http://tulane.edu/ne...
Saint-Louis Senegal & New Orleans Conference
June 5-7, 2012 Saint-Louis, Senegal
April 23-25, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana
International Colloquia: Saint-Louis, Senegal and New Orleans Louisiana: Comparative and Linked Histories of Two Port Cities on Each Side of the Atlantic, 18th-21st centuries/Colloques internationaux: Saint-Louis du S�n�gal et La Nouvelle-Orl�ans: Histoire compar�e et crois�e de deux cit�s portuaires de part et d�autre de l�Atlantique du XVIIe au XXIe si�cle
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