Richard Keller

Education

Ph. D., Rutgers University (History), 2001. Thesis advisor: Bonnie G. Smith, Thesis: “Action Psychologique: French Psychiatry in Colonial North Africa, 1900-1962” (Winner, Forum for the History of the Human Sciences Biannual Dissertation Prize, 2002).

M. A., University of Colorado at Boulder (History), 1996. Thesis advisor: Martha Hanna, Thesis: “Forgetting Freud: Language, Psychoanalysis, and the Body in France, 1913-1932.”

B. A., University of Colorado at Boulder (History), 1992.

Professional Experience

Residential Fellow, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux, Sciences sociales, politique, santé. UMR 8156 CNRS-Inserm-EHESS-Université Paris 13. Spring 2007.

Assistant Professor of Medical History and the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002- present.

Assistant Professor of African Studies and Science and Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002- (secondary affiliations).

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis.

Honors and Awards

Forum for the History of the Human Sciences Biannual Dissertation Prize, 2002.

Fellowships and Grants

National Science Foundation Science and Society Scholar’s Award, “Heat and Death in France: Social Ecology and the Making of the Paris Heat Wave Disaster.” NSF 0647266. 2007-2008.

Bourse pour l’accueil des chercheurs étrangers, Ville de Paris, niveau senior (Senior Fellowship for Foreign Researchers, City of Paris). 2007.

UW Graduate School Research Committee Funding, UW-Madison. 2006.

Global Studies Program Faculty Research Funding, UW-Madison. 2005.

République Française, Ministère de la Santé, Mission de Recherche /Direction de la Recherche, des Etudes, de l’Evaluation et des Statistiques (MiRe/DREES), Evènements indésirables dans les systèmes de santé. With Carine Vassy (PI), Didier Fassin, and Robert Dingwall. Project title: “Des morts inaperçues: L’enregistrement des surmortalités brutales en Angleterre, aux Etats-Unis et en France” (Invisible Deaths: Recording Excess Mortality in Britain, the United States, and France). 2005-2007.

“Globalizing the Unconscious: Cross-Cultural Encounters with Colonial Psychoanalysis,” Office of International Studies and Programs New Research Initiative, UW-Madison (co-PI with Warwick Anderson). 2004-2007.

Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies Seed Funding, UW-Madison, 2004.

Center for European Studies Course Development Funding, UW-Madison, 2004.

Office of International Studies and Programs New Research Initiative, UW Madison (co-PI): "Globalizing the Unconscious: Cross-Cultural Encounters with Colonial Psychoanalysis," 2004.

Global Studies Program Faculty Research Funding, UW-Madison, 2003.

Center for European Studies Faculty Travel Award, UW-Madison, 2003.

Society for French Historical Studies Research Travel Award, 2003.

American Institute for Maghrib Studies, Travel Award, 2000.

American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, 1999.

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Graduate Fellowship, 1999-2000.

Fulbright Fellowship, France, 1998-1999.

Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 1998.

Rutgers University Excellence Fellowship, 1996-2000.

Articles Published in the Last 10 Years

“AIDS,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and World History, ed. by Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2008).

“World Health Organization,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and World History, ed. by Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2008).

“Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa,” in Psychiatry and Empire, ed. by Megan Vaughan and Sloan Mahone (London: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming in 2007).

“Clinician and Revolutionary: Frantz Fanon, Biography, and the History of Colonial Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming in 2007).

“Les deux corps de l’immigré: Psyché et désintégration corporelle en France dans les années 70,” in Histoire et immigration: La question coloniale (Paris: CNRS, forthcoming in 2007).

“Geographies of Power, Legacies of Mistrust: Colonial Medicine in the Global Present,” Historical Geography 34 (2006): 26-48.

"Pinel in the Maghreb: Liberation, Confinement, and Psychiatric Reform in French North Africa," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79, no. 3 (2005): 459-99.

“Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962, ” Journal of Social History 35 (2001): 295-326.“Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962, ” Journal of Social History 35 (2001): 295-326.

“ Pierre Janet and the Psychoanalytic Crisis in France, 1913-1915,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 24 (1997): 168-177.

Current Research Projects/Interests

City of Light, City of Heat: Social Ecology and the Making of the Paris Heat Wave Catastrophe. A book on the deadly European heat wave of 2003, with a specific focus on the social dimensions of the catastrophe in Paris.

Des morts inaperçues: L’enregistrement des surmortalités brutales en Angleterre, aux Etats-Unis et en France . With Carine Vassy, Didier Fassin, and Robert Dingwall. A comparative ethnographic study of mortality reporting, disaster, and the state in Britain, France, and the United States.

Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Sovereignty . Edited volume. With Warwick Anderson. Collected essays from an international conference on psychoanalysis and colonialism.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• 508: Health, Disease, and Healing II [syllabus]
• 543: Doctors and Delusions: Madness and Medicine in the Modern Era [syllabus]
• 553: International Health and Global Society [syllabus]

Graduate

• 919: Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Colonial Context [syllabus]