TESSA
MURPHY
Curriculum
Vitae
EDUCATION
Anticipated
Ph.D. History, University of Chicago.
June 2015 Thesis: “Colonizing the Creole Archipelago: The Lesser Antilles ca. 1700-1795.”
Committee: Professors Julie
Saville (Chair), Paul Cheney, and Dain Borges.
Comprehensive Examination Fields, 2011: The Caribbean-Atlantic World (Professor
Julie Saville), Colonial Latin America (Professor Dain Borges), Race &
Racisms in the Americas (Professor Thomas Holt).
June 2009 M.A. History,
University of Chicago.
Thesis: “Intellectuals, dominicanidad,
and evolving articulations of racial identity in the 20th century
Dominican Republic.”
Readers: Professors Emilio Kouri and
Julie Saville.
June 2007 B.A. History, University of Toronto.
Summa
cum laude. Double minor
in Anthropology and French.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
National/International
2012-2013 Pre-doctoral fellowship, Institut
National d’Études Démographiques, Paris
2011-2012 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Doctoral Award
2012 Special Collections Research Fellowship, Hamilton
College Library, Clinton, NY
University of Chicago
2014-2015 Quinn Foundation Dissertation-Year
Fellowship
2008-2014 University of Chicago Graduate Aid
Initiative
2010-2013 Participant in “Migration, Material Culture, and Memory: Constructing Community in Mobile Worlds,” collaboration between
the University of Chicago and the Université de Paris X Nanterre, sponsored by
the Partner University Fund
2013 Arnaldo Momigliano dissertation research travel award, Social Sciences Division
2013 Orin Williams research travel grant, Social Sciences
Division
2013 Kunstadter research travel grant, Department of
History
2012 Graduate Fellowship, Nicholson Center for British Studies
2011 & 2009 Francois
Furet Travel Grant, France Chicago Center
2010 John Hope Franklin Research Travel Grant, Department
of History
2009 Tinker travel grant, Center for Latin American Studies
Teaching Awards
2014 Von Holst prize lectureship, Department of History
(declined)
2014 & 2013 Prize lectureship, Center for the Study of
Race, Politics, and Culture (declined 2014)
University of Toronto
2007 Moses Tartick Scholarship in History
2005 Madeleine Lake Turnbull Fellowship in French
2005 Cameron Prize in Modern Languages (French)
2004 Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn Scholarship in English
Literature
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Review Article
Murphy, Tessa. “Of Men and
Machines: Science and Colonialism in Old Regime France.” Revue de Synthèse Vol. 135, forthcoming 2014.
Work in
progress
Murphy, Tessa. “Carib
Colonizers: Indigenous People and the Settlement of the Lesser Antilles,
1635-1700.” Book chapter in preparation for L.H. Roper, ed. The Torrid Zone: Colonization and Cultural
Interaction in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean.
ACADEMIC WORK
EXPERIENCE
2014-15 Archival
consultant for National Science Foundation-funded project “Studying empire from the
margins: comparison of village life and provisioning strategies at two
plantation settlements in Dominica, West Indies (ca 1763-1838),”
Principal Investigator Dr. Mark Hauser, Department
of Anthropology, Northwestern University
2014 Research
assistant for Dr. Julie Saville, Department of History, University of Chicago
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
As Lecturer
Fall 2013 “An American Sea: Race and Nation in
the 20th Century Caribbean.”
I designed and instructed this
upper-level seminar course as a prize lectureship through the Center for the
Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.
Fall
2013 “Colonizations I”
I taught this nineteen-student introductory
undergraduate course, which relied on a combination of primary historical
documents and contextual readings to explore the comparative historical
experiences of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans in the colonial Americas.
As Teaching Assistant
Fall 2011 “America in World Civilization I,”
Professor James Sparrow
Winter 2011 “Introduction to Latin American Civilization
II,” Professor Valeria Manzano
Fall 2010 “Colonizations I,” Professor Julie
Saville
Secondary
School Teaching
2007-2008 English Language Assistant, Lycée
Ribeaupierre, Alsace, France.
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
As
Panelist/Presenter
May 2014 “The Lesser Antilles and the American War
of Independence.” Social History Workshop, University of Chicago.
Oct. 2013 “The Treaty of Paris and the
transformation of the Lesser Antilles, 1763-1773.” Workshop on Latin American
and the Caribbean, University of Chicago.
June
2013 “Peuplement
et développement des Petites Antilles. Du statut d’îles neutres à celui des
colonies contestées.” Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris.
May 2013 “Crossing Empires: Migrations in the
Lesser Antilles after the Treaty of Paris, 1763-1773.” 2013 Partner University Fund Conference, Chicago.
Apr. 2013 “Creating Colonies in the Ceded Islands,
1763-1779.”
France Chicago Center Workshop, University of Chicago Center, Paris.
Feb. 2013 “Migrations in the Ceded Islands, 1763-1773.” Partner University
Fund Workshop, Paris.
Dec. 2012 “The Colonies of a Colony: Settlement in
the Neutral Islands prior to the Seven Years’ War.” Latin American History
Workshop (LAHW), University of Chicago.
Nov. 2011 “Imperial Imaginaries, Negotiated
Realities: The Lesser Antilles ca. 1730-1785.” Dissertation
proposal presented at the Caribbean Studies Workshop, University of Chicago.
June 2011 “Recreating Community: Inter-island
migration in the Lesser Antilles after the 1763 Treaty of Paris.” 2011 Partner
University Fund Conference, University of Chicago & University of Paris X
Nanterre.
Mar. 2011 “Making Freedom,” Invited guest lecture,
Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World, Prof. Jennifer Palmer, University of
Chicago
May 2010 “Reflections in the Records:
Representations of Race and Status in late- eighteenth-century Martinique.”
Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago.
As Commentator
Nov. 2013 “The Doctrina
de Marti: Migration, Diaspora, and Antillean Racial Politics in 19th
Century New York.” Comment on paper by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Associate
Professor of History at University of Michigan, Latin American History Workshop
(LAHW) University of Chicago.
Nov. 2010 “Simón Bolívar’s Gran Colombia:
Fraternity or Hierarchy?” Comment on
paper by Aline Helg, Professor of History of Université de Genève, LAHW, University of Chicago.
Apr. 2010 “Degrees of Bondage: Children and
Tutelary Servitude in Modern Latin America”
Comment on paper by Nara Milanich, Assistant Professor of History at
Barnard College, LAHW, University of Chicago.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
April 2015 Co-organizer, “Imperial Transformations: Ecology,Bureaucracy, and Ritual in the British Atlantic, 17th-20th Centuries.”
2014- Graduate student mentor, Department of History.
2010-2011 Co-coordinator, Caribbean Studies
Workshop, University of Chicago.
2008- 2011 Organizing committee, History Graduate
Students’ Association, University of Chicago.
May 2009 Organizing committee, History Graduate
Student Conference, University of Chicago
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Association of Caribbean Historians
French Colonial History Society
LANGUAGES
French:
Fluently spoken, written, and read.
Spanish:
Reading, writing, and speaking proficiency.