Rank:

Associate Professor



Address:



Department of History (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Email: NJordan@uic.edu



Education:


Ph.D. (International History), London School of Economics, 1985
B.A. Honours, MA (Oxon.), St. Anne's College, Oxford University
B.A. with High Honors, Wellesley College

• Lecturer/ Assistant/ Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984-
• Visiting Associate Professor of History, Depts. of Political Science & History, University of Chicago, Winter 1993
• Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum, Harvard University, 1983-4
• Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Tufts University, 1983
• Lecturer in Modern History, Trinity College, Oxford University, 1980-1

Publications:

• Monograph:
  
  
  • The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1919-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1992). A selection of the American Council of Learned Societies’ History E-Book Project, 2001
    
    
    • George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, 1992
    • An American Council of Learned Societies’ History E-Book, 2001
  
  
• Articles & Reviews:
  
  
  • "The Reorientation of French Diplomacy: The Case of Jacques Seydoux, 1920-1924," The English Historical Review (September 2002), 866-888
  • “La diplomatie et l’armée françaises face au problème de la barrière de l’est (1923-1926),” Revue d’Histoire diplomatique (Editions de la Sorbonne), October 2001
  • “Une Mésentente Cordiale” in Bâtir Une Nouvelle Sécurité, ed. Maurice Vaïsse (Paris: Service Historique de l’Armée de Terre/CNRS, 2001)
  • Review essay: “The Historian, War and the Counter-factual,” in War In History (in press)
  • Review of Ernest May, Strange Victory, in The English Historical Review (April 2001)
  • "The French National Catastrophe, 1940" in The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments, ed. Joel Blatt, Berghahn Press, 1998, 2000
  • Gamelin/ the Fall of France in The Historical Dictionary of World War II France: the Occupation, Vichy and the Resistance, ed. Bertram Gordon, Greenwood Press, 1998
  • Review essay of Pierre Péan, Une jeunesse française, François Mitterand 1934-1947, in The Journal of Modern History, March 1997
  • "Strategy and Scapegoatism" in Historical Reflections/ Réflexions historiques, Winter 1996
  • "Léon Blum au moment de la menace hitlérienne" in Léon Blum, Socialiste Européen, Editions Complexes, Bruxelles, 1995
  • Review of Arno Klarsfeld, Touvier, un Crime français in History of European Ideas, July 1995
  • "Maurice Gamelin, Italy and the Eastern Alliances," The Journal of Strategic Studies, December 1991
  • "Léon Blum and Czechoslovakia," French History, March 1991
  • "Une Mission diplomatique en Europe centrale," Les Cahiers Léon Blum, December, 1990
  • "The Cut-Price War on the Peripheries," in Paths to War, ed. by Robert Boyce & E.M. Robertson, Macmillan, 1989

• Who's Who in America, 2004
  Choice of The Popular Front and Central Europe in the American Council of Learned Societies’ History E-Book Project, a list of classic historical texts in American, European, and Middle Eastern history, as well as the history of technology, all published in the last 75 years, to be made available to participating libraries
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1998-9
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1997-8
• University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993-
• George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, for The Popular Front and Central Europe: the Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1919-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1992
• Fellow, Humanities Institute, University of Illinois, 1988-9
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1987
• University of Illinois Research Board Summer Travel Grants, 1987, 1985

• Midwest Regional Selection Committee, Mellon Grants for Humanistic Studies, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, member 1995-; Committee Chair, 2001-2002
• “Reparations and Security in Europe, 1920-1924", Invited talk, the >>Remarque Institute of New York University, October 2001
• “Helen Culver Ewing Breasted, 1910-1990: Hull House Volunteer and Young Friend of Jane Addams,” Hull House Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 2000
• Les diplomates et les soldats français: visions d’une Europe d’après guerre,” the Centre Nationale des Recherches Scientifiques, conference on France’s Wider European Presence in the 1920s, Paris, December 1999
• "The Post-war Social Contract," American Historical Association, January 1995, Chair of a panel including Charles Maier, Volker Berghahn, Irwin Wall, Andrew Gordon and David Stebenne
• "Léon Blum et l'Europe centrale," Invited Talk, "Léon Blum, Socialiste européen," Senate of the French Republic, Palais du Luxembourg, October 1993
• "France and the Origins of World War II," Public lecture, International Relations programme, University of Toronto, October, 1992
• "Methodology & Diplomatic History," Seminar presentation, University of Toronto, October, 1992
• "Launching World War II: the Case of the French General Staff," Invited talk, Center for West European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, October, 1991
• "The Alliance Diplomacy of the French General Staff: Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium, 1933-1940," Paper at the AHA, December, 1990 Co-panelists: Michael Geyer, Martin Alexander, Philip Bankwitz
• "Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and France, 1933-1938: a Western Perspective," Seminar for undergraduates and the History faculty, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
• "The French Military Mind Between the Wars: Maurice Gamelin," Annual Conference, Society for French Historical Studies, March 1987.
• Referee in economic & military history, French Historical Studies
• Referee in modern European history, Cambridge University Press

• UIC Distinguished Professor Review Panel, Advisory to the Provost, 2000-2001
• Compilation of 110 pages of manuscript letters written from a Hull House volunteer home, with presentation to the Hull House Archives, Autumn 2000
• Search Committees in Chinese and American History, 1994-5, 1996-7
• Executive Committee, Institute for the Humanities, 1992-5
• Fellow, Honors College, 1992-
• Selection Committee &/or Historian, Phi Beta Kappa, 1986-1997
• University Committee on the Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991, 1992
• Chair, Departmental Awards Committee, 1991, 1992
• History Department Undergraduate Advisory Committee, 1984- ; Chair, 1987-90; Ombudsman, 1984-90