Nicholas Toloudis

Visiting Assistant Professor

Fall 2011

  • West European Politics (GOV 224)
  • Social Movements and Popular Protest (GOV 283)
Title Visiting Assistant Professor
Department GOVERNMENT
E-Mail ntoloudi@bowdoin.edu
Nicholas Toloudis: Bowdoin College

Education

M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D. Columbia University
B.A. Johns Hopkins University

Reseach and Teaching Interests

European politics; political economy and state-society relations; politics of education in Europe and the United States; social movements and the state; political representation; electoral systems and electoral reform in advanced industrialized democracies

Publications, Papers, and Presentations

Publications and Papers under Review

  • "Mark Kesselman and the Study of Comparative Politics," forthcoming in  New Political Science, June 2008.
  • "Instituteur Identities: Explaining the Nineteenth Century French Teachers' Movement," forthcoming in Social Movement Studies 7, no. 1 (May 2008): 61-76.
  • "Mark Kesselman and the Study of the French Left," French Politics 5, no. 2 (July 2007): 160-177.
  • "From Mobilization to Resistance: Transgressive Teachers in France and the US, 1830-1960." Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 2006.
  • Review of Ilaria Favretto, The Long Search for a Third Way The British Labor Party and the Italian Left Since 1945, in Italian Politics and Society: The Review of the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society no. 61 (Fall/Winter 2005).

Working Papers:

  • Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam: Public Education, State Centralization, and Teachers' Movements in France and the United States, book manuscript in progress.
  • "Religiosity, Pedagogical Conferences, and Nascent Professionalism among 19th Century French Instituteurs: 1830-1850," under preparation for submission to the Journal of Social History.
  • "Centralizing Public Education and Teachers' Movements in France," under preparation for submission to World Politics.
  • "Centralization and Space," a revision of my 2006 APSA presentation, under preparation for submission to Theory and Society.
  • Currently untitled study of Tocqueville's view on public education in July Monarchy-era France, under preparation for submission to The Review of Politics.

Paper Presentations:

  • "Centralization Reconsidered: Moving Beyond �Dynamic Statism,'" Poster presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3, 2006.
  • "From Mobilization to Resistance: Transgressive Teachers in France and the United States, 1871-1930." Poster presentation at APSA, Washington D.C., September 1-4, 2005.
  • "Appropriating the State: A Theory of Teacher Mobilization and Resistance." Paper presented at the Workshop on Contentious Politics, Columbia University, March 30, 2005.
  • "The Guizot Dilemma: The Politics of Standardizing Education in France, 1808-1889." Paper presented at APSA, Chicago, Illinois, September 1-5, 2004.
  • "Timing, Sequence, and Category Work: Teaching Identities in France, 1789-1852." Paper presented at the New England Political Science Association (NEPSA), Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 30-May 1, 2004.
  • "Teachers, Contention, and the State." Paper presented at the Sciences-Po spring graduate student seminar, Paris, France, March 30, 2004.
  • "Common Procedures, Common Problems: Moving Toward Common Electoral Procedures for EP Elections." Paper presented at the European Community Studies Association (ECSA), University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 30-June 2, 2002.

Complete curriculum vitae