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Catherine Dunlop

Prof. Dr. Catherine Dunlop

Carson Fellow

Catherine Dunlop is an associate professor of modern European history at Montana State University, Bozeman. She received her PhD in history from Yale University in 2010. Her work explores the connections among visual culture, geography, and environmental history in modern France. Dunlop’s first book, Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Her current book project, Mistral: Environment and Society in Nineteenth-Century France, explores how people from different backgrounds—including sailors, farmers, doctors, writers, and painters—interacted with southern France’s famous wind. Over the course of her career, Dunlop’s scholarship has been supported by the Camargo Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Georges Lurcy Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. At Montana State, she enjoys teaching a range of thematic courses in French and European history, including Nature and Culture in Modern Europe, Mapping the World, and Visual History.

RCC Research Project: Mistral: Environment and Society in Nineteenth-Century France

Lunchtime Colloquium Video - Force of Nature: The Mistral in French History


Selected Publications:

  • “Looking at the Wind: Paintings of the Mistral in Fin-de-Siècle France.” Environmental History 20, no. 3 (July 2015): 505–18.
  • Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
  • “The Cartographic Language of Locality.” In Place and Locality in Modern France, edited by Patrick Young and Philip Whalen, 15–26. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
  • “A New Kind of European Boundary: Mapping the Language Border between Modern France and Germany.” Imago Mundi 65, no. 2 (June 2013): 253–67.
  • “Cartography in a Contested European Borderland: A Comparative and Transnational Approach to French and German Survey Maps of Alsace-Lorraine.” In L'espace rhénan, pôle de savoirs, edited by Catherine Maurer and Astrid Starck-Adler, 261–70. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2013.