Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Michael A. Kozakowski                                     

Instructor of Modern European History and of International Studies
University of Colorado Denver

Department of History
Campus Box 182
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO  80217-3364

michael.kozakowski@ucdenver.edu                                                 

Employment

• Instructor of Modern European History and of International Studies (Joint appointment beginning August 2016) – University of Colorado Denver
• Instructor of Modern European History (August 2015 – present) – University of Colorado Denver
  
• Max Weber Fellow (September 2014 – August 2015) – European University Institute, Florence

 Education

• Ph.D. in History (August 2014) – University of Chicago
  Dissertation: “From the Mediterranean to Europe: Migrants, the World of Work, and the Transformation of the French Mediterranean, 1945-1974.” Committee Members: Leora Auslander (chair), Tara Zahra, and Mauricio Tenorio
• M.A. in International History (December 2008) – University of Chicago
  Thesis: "A Racial Guide to Greater France: Tourist Guidebooks, Race & French North Africa"
• B.S. in Foreign Service, International History Major (May 2005) – Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service – Graduated summa cum laude
• Visiting Student (September 2003 - June 2004) – St. Peter’s College, Oxford University

 Previous (Non-Academic) Employment

• Healthcare Research Associate/Research Analyst/Senior Research Analyst (August 2005 - August 2007) – The Advisory Board Company, Washington, DC

 Publications

• “Making ‘Mediterranean Migrants’: Geopolitical Transitions, Migratory Policy, and French Conceptions of the Mediterranean in the 20th Century,” Cahiers de la Méditerranée, no. 89 (December 2014): 181-194.
• "Working towards Citizenship" Vocational Training for Algerian Migrants and the Tensions of Trans-Mediterranean Citizenship, 1945-74" (revise & resubmit)

 Current Research Projects

• Migration and the Transformation of the Western Mediterranean: Economic Development, Decolonization, and European Integration, 1945-1975 (revised dissertation manuscript)
• “Skilled Transformations: Algerian Migrants, Vocational Training, and the Tensions of Trans-Mediterranean Citizenship, 1945-1974” (draft)
•  “Mediterranean Migration and the Racial Imagination of the French Empire, 1830-1939”
•  “Protecting the Nation’s Own, Abroad: Migrants, Welfare, and the Redefinition of the Spanish State, 1898-1939”
• Migration and Labor during Economic Crises: The "1970s" and the Present

 Research Awards and Fellowships

• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Non-Tenure Track Professional Development Grant (2016) - University of Colorado Denver
• Max Weber Fellow (September 2014 – August 2015) – European University Institute, Florence
• Hanna Holborn Gray Fellow (2011-2013) – Mellon Foundation / University of Chicago
• Visiting Fellow (2010-2011) – Institut des Etudes Politiques-Paris (Sciences Po)
• Program for Cultural Cooperation between United States Universities and Spain’s Ministry of Culture, Dissertation Research Grant (2010) – Spain’s Ministry of Culture
• Cochrane and Sinkler Research Travel Grants (Summer 2010) – University of Chicago
• Kunstadter Research Travel Grant (Summer 2009) – University of Chicago
• Tinker Field Research Grant (Summer 2009) – Tinker Foundation
• Social Sciences Divisional Fellowship (2007-2010) – University of Chicago

 Teaching and Service Awards

• Nominated for the CU Denver Faculty Assembly Recognition Award (2016)
• Von Holst Prize Lectureship (2012) – University of Chicago for the course, “Transnational History of the Mediterranean since 1798”

Teaching Assistant/Teaching Intern at the University of Chicago:

•  “History of European Civilization: Part II,” with John Craig (Spring 2010)
• “Power, Identity and Resistance: Part III,” with Sarah Graff (Spring 2010)
• “Power, Identity and Resistance: Part II,” with Max Whyte (Winter 2010)
• “An Empire Revisited: A Reconsideration of the Spanish Empire,” with Josep Fradera (Autumn 2009)

 Undergraduate Courses Taught

• “Controversies in History: Comparative Revolutions” (Fall 2016 and Spring 2017) - University of Colorado Denver
• “Controversies in History: Historical Debates and Methods” (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016) – University of Colorado Denver
• “Foundations of International Studies” (Fall 2016 and Spring 2017) - University of Colorado Denver
• “Transnational History of the Mediterranean since 1798”  (Autumn 2010) – Institut des Etudes Politiques-Paris (Sciences Po) and (Winter 2012) – University of Chicago
• “The World at War, 1914-1945” (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017) – University of Colorado Denver

 Undergraduate/Graduate Courses Taught

• “Enlightenment and Revolution: A Long 18^th Century?” (Fall 2015) – University of Colorado Denver
• “History of Modern France” (Fall 2016) – University of Colorado Denver

 Graduate Courses Taught

• “Migrations: Mobility and Dislocation” (Spring 2016) – University of Colorado Denver
• “Nations and Empires” (Winter 2015), co-taught with Pieter Judson and Lucy Riall – European University Institute
• "Place, Space, and Scale" (Spring 2017)
  

 Conference and Workshop Organization

• Conference Co-organizer, 9^th Annual June Conference, an Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Science Research
  (June 10-12, 2015), European University Institute – Florence, Italy.
• Graduate Workshop Organizer, “Migration in Europe: Contemporary Issues, Historical Perspectives” (April 27, 2015), College of Europe, Natolin Campus – Warsaw, Poland.
• Panel Co-organizer, “Making Migrants: Work, Money, and Shifting Perceptions of Migrants in France’s Post-War Moments,” a Panel Presented (April 4-7, 2013) at the 59^th Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies – Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

 Conference Presentations

• "Migration, Social Protection, and the Early Welfare-State in Spain, 1898-1931" (upcoming, March 16-19, 2017). 48th Annual Conference of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies - New York, New York, USA.
• "Migration, European Integration, and the Logics of French Welfare" (January 19-20, 2017). Leiden University, Whose Welfare? Fresh Perspectives on the Post-war Welfare State and its Global Entanglements - Leiden, The Netherlands.
• "Penser le développement et l'économie de migration en Méditerranée occidentale (1914-1974)" [Developmental Logics and Economies of Migration in the Western Mediterranean, 1914-1974] (November 17-19, 2016).Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Mobilités, surveillance, assistance en Méditerranée - Nice, France.
• “The Clandestine Crisis: Migrant Labor in an Age of Deindustrialization” (September 16-17, 2016). Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Service Sector Conference – Munich, Germany.
• “Managing the Border: Citizenship, Technology, and Space in the Making of the French Frontier, 1914-1974” (June 8-10, 2016). European University Institute (EUI), Tenth Annual June Conference – Florence, Italy.
• “Rethinking Postwar Migration through the Mediterranean” (January 7-10, 2016). 130^th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association – Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Chair for Panel, “Youth and Family Life: Socialization and Rights” (June 10-12, 2015). EUI, Ninth Annual June Conference – Florence, Italy.
• Discussant for Roundtable with Frederick Cooper, “Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960” (June 9, 2015). EUI – Florence, Italy.
• “Revisiting Prosperity: Migrants, the Mediterranean, and the Making of the ‘Trente Glorieuses’” (April 16-19, 2015). 60^th Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies – Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
• “Migration in the Crucible of Decolonization” (February 16-17, 2015). Freie Universität Berlin, (De-)Colonizing Knowledge: Figures, Narratives, and Practices Workshop – Berlin, Germany.
•  “The Borders of the State: Mediterranean Migration in the Age of Decolonization and European Integration” (December 4-6, 2014). EUI, Crossings and Circulations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean since 1450 Conference – Florence, Italy.
•  “Re-thinking France through the Mediterranean: Moving Beyond Bilateral and (Post)-Colonial Paradigms of Migration” (August 27-28, 2014). University of St. Andrews, France and its Global Histories Workshop – St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
• “Migrants in Motion, Migrant Promotion: Transportation, Labor Integration, and the Politics of Difference in Postwar France, 1944-1954” (April 24-27, 2014). 60^th Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies – Montreal, Canada.
• "Grenzen der Zugehörigkeit: Französischer Diskurs über Migranten und dem Mittelmeerraum, 1830-2008" [Boundaries of Belonging: French Discourses on Migrants and the Mediterranean, 1830-2008] (November 15-16, 2013). 4^th Bochumer Nachwuchsworkshop für MediterranistInnen – Bochum, Germany.
• “Making ‘Mediterranean Migrants’: A Crossed History of the Conceptions and Political Economy of Migration During the First Two Decades of the EEC” (November 8-9, 2013). Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Recompositions géopolitiques en Méditerranée: un défi pour les Mediterranean Studies – Nice, France.
• “The Migrant Worker and Post-WWII Hierarchies of Labor: Between Discourses of Skill and Practices of Employment” (April 4-7, 2013). 59^th Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies – Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• “Training France’s Transnational Workforce: Colonial Development, International Cooperation, & Adult Vocational Formation in the Western Mediterranean, 1944-1974” (July 1-3, 2012). Society for the Study of French History, 26^th Annual Conference – York, United Kingdom.
• “Economies of Migration: The Business and Social Practices of Migration between Algeria and France, 1944-1974” (May 2, 2012). University of Portsmouth, Doing Research In and On Algeria Symposium – Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
• “Social Policies and Migration: The European Frontier?” (October 27-29, 2011). University of Minnesota, Rethinking Europe Conference, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
• “Unions of the French Mediterranean? Migration in an Age of National Development and European Integration, 1944-1974” (April 8-9, 2011). University of Michigan, Mediterranean Topographies Symposium – Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Guest Speaking

• Public Speaker, “Perspectives on the Syrian Refugee Crisis” (October 29, 2015), University of Colorado Denver International Studies Student Association – Denver, Colorado.
• Guest Lecturer, “Assessing Violence after World War II,” (May 13, 2015), Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, Spain.

Peer Reviewer

Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism

 
Institutional Service (Select) at the University of Colorado Denver

• Co-Chair, Assessment Committee, History Department (Fall 2016 - Spring 2017)
• Steering Committee Member, International Studies Program (Fall 2016 - present)
• Marketing and Communications Committee Member, History Department (Spring 2016 - present)
• Assessment Committee Member, International Studies Program (Spring 2016 - present)
• Examiner, History Graduate Student Comprehensive Examinations (Fall 2015 - present)
• Assessment Committee Member, History Department (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016)

 Research Languages

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• Catalan

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