Dr. Mona Siegel

History Department | Arts & Letters | CSUS

Dr. Mona Siegel joined the CSUS History faculty in 2003. Her teaching and research interests include modern French history, the history of women and gender, history and memory, peace history, and the history of the world wars

Courses::Papers and Publications::Research Projects::Professional Associations

Contact Information
Title:	Dr. Mona Siegel Assistant Professor of History
Office Hours:	Mondays 3-5, Wednesdays 11-12, and by appt.
E-mail:	msiegel@csus.edu
Office Phone:	(916) 278-3416
Mailing Address:	CSU, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6056

Courses ::

HIST 5: Western Civilization, 1500-present
HIST 51: World Civilizations, 1500-present
HIST 117: Europe, 1815-1914
HIST 118b: The Era of World War II
HIST 121: Democracy and Human Rights in the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
HIST 201: European Historiography (graduate seminar)
HIST 280: Women and Gender in Modern Europe (graduate seminar)
HIST 282z: History and Memory (graduate seminar)

Major Publications ::

The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

“’History is the Opposite of Forgetting’: The Limits of Memory and the Lessons of History in Interwar France,” Journal of Modern History vol. 74 (December 2002): 770-800.

“ Germinal: Teaching about Class and Industrial Capitalism through Film”: Radical History Review 83 (Spring 2002), 180-185.

"‘To the Unknown Mother of the Unknown Soldier': Pacifism, Feminism, and the Politics of Sexual Difference among French Institutrices between the Wars," French Historical Studies vol. 22, no. 3 (summer 1999): 61-82.

Current Research Projects ::

"The Disarmament of Hatred": History, Truth, and Franco-German Reconciliation from World War I to the Cold War

Select Grants and Awards ::

• CSUS Research and Creativity Award (2004-2005)
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001-2002)
• Spencer Foundation Small Grant Research Fellowship (Fall 1999)
• Research Fellowship, Centre de recherche de l'Historial de la Grande guerre, Péronne, France (Summer 1994)
• Peace Scholar, United States Institute of Peace (1993-1994)
• Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 1992)
• Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Associations ::