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Caller Times, 2023
Op-Ed on legislation aimed at academic freedom
Tropics of Meta, 2020
An essay dealing with historical analogies to fascism in the contemporary United States by way of... more An essay dealing with historical analogies to fascism in the contemporary United States by way of intellectual-activist Daniel Guérin's 1958 text "Parachronisme"
Upper-level undergraduate historical methods course. Fall 2020
Psychoanalysis and History, 2019
Co-authored with Sophie Wustefeld This article reads Maud Mannoni’s The Retarded Child and the Mo... more Co-authored with Sophie Wustefeld
This article reads Maud Mannoni’s The Retarded Child and the Mother (1973) and L’éducation impossible (1973) in the context of French ‘institutional analysis’ in order to nuance criticism of Mannoni’s work, particularly the criticism that Mannoni blamed mothers for the conditions of their children. Institutional analysis emerged in France after World War II. Institutional analysts drew from psychotherapy, sociology, and education in order to question power dynamics and the consequences of bureaucracy in their areas of research. Although often overlooked, this movement influenced Mannoni just as much as commonly acknowledged influences like Jacques Lacan and the anti-psychiatry movement. Moreover, connecting the preoccupations of institutional analysis with a more Lacanian approach, the thought of the understudied yet brilliant French psychoanalyst Piera Aulagnier (1923–90) offers crucial insights into the way political and social structures shape individual psyches. Retrieving these influences, we argue that Mannoni did not blame individual mothers for their children’s pathologies. Instead, she identified the social and political dimensions of psychopathologies and suggested tackling the roots of psychic diseases in social institutions.
North Africa and the Making of Europe, 2018
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/north-africa-and-the-making-of-europe-9781350021822/
Paper given to the New York French History Group, Thursday, January 26, at the CUNY Graduate Cent... more Paper given to the New York French History Group, Thursday, January 26, at the CUNY Graduate Center.
An analysis of the analogies to Revolutionary France and Napoleon Bonaparte invoked among the anticolonial left as a way of making sense of de Gaulle's return to political power in 1958.
Doctoral dissertation completed at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, May, 2016.
Short methodological reflection on historical analogies.
This article first appeared in Le Monde, on 24 November 2015
Spring 2016, Queens College, CUNY
Review of Emile Chabal, ed., France Since the 1970s: History, Politics, and Memory in an Age of U... more Review of Emile Chabal, ed., France Since the 1970s: History, Politics, and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty.
Review essay for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
Book Reviews by Timothy Johnson
Books by Timothy Johnson
Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians lo... more Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France’s Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The French Empire justified their claims over Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of Algerian independence confronted those historical claims by identifying the Algerian cause with the French Revolution and by highlighting the apparent contradictions between the history of 1789 and imperial rule. Far-right activists, meanwhile, saw the movement to decolonize Algeria as another manifestation of the Revolutionary disorder stemming from the French Revolution. Behind these analogies lay broader changes in the study of North African society and contemporary political relevance of the French Revolution. The focus on analogies to the French Revolution puts different sets of actors in conversation with one another and offers a fresh take on how people’s experiences and expectations changed throughout the Algerian War.
This book will appeal to readers interested in the intellectual history of decolonization, the historiography of the French Revolution, the historiography of North African studies, and questions of historical comparison and conceptual change.
The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State, 2020
My translation of François Ewald, L'Histoire de l'état providence. Edited by Melinda Cooper. Fort... more My translation of François Ewald, L'Histoire de l'état providence. Edited by Melinda Cooper. Forthcoming with Duke University Press.
Teaching Documents by Timothy Johnson
Syllabus for an MA-level historiography seminar. Taught at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, F... more Syllabus for an MA-level historiography seminar. Taught at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Fall 2024.
Approach and Rationale: This course is designed to give students a sense of the historical "craft... more Approach and Rationale: This course is designed to give students a sense of the historical "craft" in two senses of that term. The first goal of the course is to convey the development of the modern historical profession since the 19 th C. The second goal is to expose students to an array of influential approaches, theories, and techniques applied by professional historians.
Rationale and Approach: This term, we will cover some of the major strands of European thought fr... more Rationale and Approach: This term, we will cover some of the major strands of European thought from the end of the Enlightenment to the present, with particular attention to ideas that have shaped modern European culture in their moments and today. Our course materials will consist of primary sources from key thinkers influential in shaping debates and controversy. While we proceed chronologically, from the nineteenth century to the present, our texts are organized thematically in order to highlight specific conversations and chains of influence.
Caller Times, 2023
Op-Ed on legislation aimed at academic freedom
Tropics of Meta, 2020
An essay dealing with historical analogies to fascism in the contemporary United States by way of... more An essay dealing with historical analogies to fascism in the contemporary United States by way of intellectual-activist Daniel Guérin's 1958 text "Parachronisme"
Upper-level undergraduate historical methods course. Fall 2020
Psychoanalysis and History, 2019
Co-authored with Sophie Wustefeld This article reads Maud Mannoni’s The Retarded Child and the Mo... more Co-authored with Sophie Wustefeld
This article reads Maud Mannoni’s The Retarded Child and the Mother (1973) and L’éducation impossible (1973) in the context of French ‘institutional analysis’ in order to nuance criticism of Mannoni’s work, particularly the criticism that Mannoni blamed mothers for the conditions of their children. Institutional analysis emerged in France after World War II. Institutional analysts drew from psychotherapy, sociology, and education in order to question power dynamics and the consequences of bureaucracy in their areas of research. Although often overlooked, this movement influenced Mannoni just as much as commonly acknowledged influences like Jacques Lacan and the anti-psychiatry movement. Moreover, connecting the preoccupations of institutional analysis with a more Lacanian approach, the thought of the understudied yet brilliant French psychoanalyst Piera Aulagnier (1923–90) offers crucial insights into the way political and social structures shape individual psyches. Retrieving these influences, we argue that Mannoni did not blame individual mothers for their children’s pathologies. Instead, she identified the social and political dimensions of psychopathologies and suggested tackling the roots of psychic diseases in social institutions.
North Africa and the Making of Europe, 2018
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/north-africa-and-the-making-of-europe-9781350021822/
Paper given to the New York French History Group, Thursday, January 26, at the CUNY Graduate Cent... more Paper given to the New York French History Group, Thursday, January 26, at the CUNY Graduate Center.
An analysis of the analogies to Revolutionary France and Napoleon Bonaparte invoked among the anticolonial left as a way of making sense of de Gaulle's return to political power in 1958.
Doctoral dissertation completed at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, May, 2016.
Short methodological reflection on historical analogies.
This article first appeared in Le Monde, on 24 November 2015
Spring 2016, Queens College, CUNY
Review of Emile Chabal, ed., France Since the 1970s: History, Politics, and Memory in an Age of U... more Review of Emile Chabal, ed., France Since the 1970s: History, Politics, and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty.
Review essay for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians lo... more Repeating Revolutions examines how activists, intellectuals, social scientists, and historians looked to France’s Revolutionary past to negotiate Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The French Empire justified their claims over Algeria in part through messages of universal progress marked by the political visions tied to the French Revolution. Supporters of Algerian independence confronted those historical claims by identifying the Algerian cause with the French Revolution and by highlighting the apparent contradictions between the history of 1789 and imperial rule. Far-right activists, meanwhile, saw the movement to decolonize Algeria as another manifestation of the Revolutionary disorder stemming from the French Revolution. Behind these analogies lay broader changes in the study of North African society and contemporary political relevance of the French Revolution. The focus on analogies to the French Revolution puts different sets of actors in conversation with one another and offers a fresh take on how people’s experiences and expectations changed throughout the Algerian War.
This book will appeal to readers interested in the intellectual history of decolonization, the historiography of the French Revolution, the historiography of North African studies, and questions of historical comparison and conceptual change.
The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State, 2020
My translation of François Ewald, L'Histoire de l'état providence. Edited by Melinda Cooper. Fort... more My translation of François Ewald, L'Histoire de l'état providence. Edited by Melinda Cooper. Forthcoming with Duke University Press.
Syllabus for an MA-level historiography seminar. Taught at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, F... more Syllabus for an MA-level historiography seminar. Taught at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Fall 2024.
Approach and Rationale: This course is designed to give students a sense of the historical "craft... more Approach and Rationale: This course is designed to give students a sense of the historical "craft" in two senses of that term. The first goal of the course is to convey the development of the modern historical profession since the 19 th C. The second goal is to expose students to an array of influential approaches, theories, and techniques applied by professional historians.
Rationale and Approach: This term, we will cover some of the major strands of European thought fr... more Rationale and Approach: This term, we will cover some of the major strands of European thought from the end of the Enlightenment to the present, with particular attention to ideas that have shaped modern European culture in their moments and today. Our course materials will consist of primary sources from key thinkers influential in shaping debates and controversy. While we proceed chronologically, from the nineteenth century to the present, our texts are organized thematically in order to highlight specific conversations and chains of influence.