Herrick Chapman is a prominent historian of France. Since 1992, he has been employed at New York University

New York University

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 as an Associate Professor of History and French Studies in the Department of History and Institute of French Studies. Professor Chapman was educated at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and Princeton University

Princeton University

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Awards and honours

He has been the recipient of a number of awards and honours:

• Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, conferred by the French Government, 2006.
• Remarque Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University, spring semester 2006.
• German Marshall Fund of the United States, Research Fellowship, 1993-94.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1993-94.
• Maurice Falk Fellowship in the Humanities, Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
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  , spring 1992.
• Faculty Development Grant for Research, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987 and 1991.
• American Council of Learned Societies
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  , post-doctoral research fellowship for recent recipients of the Ph.D., 1985-86.
• National Fellow, Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
  Stanford University
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  , 1985-86.
• Research Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1985-86 (declined).
• International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
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  , for dissertation research and writing, 1979-81.
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship, for dissertation research, 1979-80.
• Honorary Chancellor's Traveling Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, for dissertation research, 1979.
• Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship, 1977-1981.
• Senior Thesis Prize, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
  Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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  , Princeton University, 1971.

Publications

• State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991
• European Society in Upheaval: Social History Since 1700, Third Edition, co-authored with Peter N. Stearns. New York: MacMillan, 1992.
• The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990, co-edited with George Reid Andrews. New York: New York University Press. London: Macmillan Ltd. 1995.
• A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century? co-edited with Mark Kesselman and Martin Schain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
• Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, co-edited with Laura L. Frader. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.