Julie Kalman
Senior Lecturer
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Building 11 W631
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Phone: 61-3-9905 2161
Email: julie.kalman@monash.edu
Personal History
I graduated from the University of Melbourne with an MA in French and a PhD in history. In 2006 I moved to Sydney to take up a position lecturing in Jewish history at the University of New South Wales. After six years I returned to Melbourne to join the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University.
Current Research
My expertise is in the history of modern France, and I am particularly interested in the interplay between this and Jewish history. I am currently working on a project that explores Jewish history in the context of Orientalism. I am looking at pilgrimage accounts, travel writing, and records from the 1830 invasion of Algeria, all from France, and bringing out the prominent role played by Jews, as objects of French fascination with what they called the Orient.
I am also working on a small research project that looks at the experience of South African Jews in Australia, and how this challenges prevailing theories of Diaspora.
Major Publications
Books
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Journal Articles
“Going Home to the Holy Land: the Jews of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century French Catholic Pilgrimage.” Journal of Modern History. Forthcoming June 2012.
“Sensuality, Depravity and Ritual Murder: The Damascus Blood Libel and Jews in France.” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society. 13, no. 3 (Spring/Summer 2007): 35-58.
“The Unyielding Wall: Jews and Catholics in Restoration and July Monarchy France.” French Historical Studies 26, no. 4 (2003): 661-686.
Conference Papers
“A Life of Evolutions: Félicité de Lamennais and Jews in Early-Nineteenth Century France.”Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. Vol 35, 2007 (Albuquerque, NM). http://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wsfh/volumes.html
Kalman, Julie, Ian Coller and Helen Davies, eds. French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rude Seminar. http://www.h-france.net/, 2006.
“Rothschildian Greed: This New Variety of Despotism.” In Julie Kalman, Ian Coller and Helen Davies, eds. French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rude Seminar. http://www.h-france.net/, 2006: 215-223.
“‘This King of Finance’: The Baron James de Rothschild, Orientalism, and the Damascus Affair.” In Greg Burgess, ed. Revolution, Nation and Memory; Papers from the George Rudé Seminar in French History, Hobart, July 2002. Hobart: School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania, 2004. 124-137.
Areas of Research & Supervision
- Modern France
- Modern Jewish history
- History of imperialism
- Cultural history
Teaching
APG4618 - Researching Histories
ATS2623 - Nationality, ethnicity and conflict