Contact Information:
Iona College, Department of History
715 North Ave.
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Phone: (914) 633-2586
Fax: (914) 633-2153
Email: mjhughes@iona.edu

Office Hours:
Tuesday Noon - 12:50 pm
Thursday Noon - 12:50 pm
Friday Noon - 12:50 pm

Education
BA - Trenton State College (The College of New Jersey)
MA - Temple University
PhD - University of Illinois

Courses Taught

History 101: Evolution of Western Civilization
History 351: Europe, 1648-1800: Age of Reason and Revolution
History 352: The Age of Ideology - Europe in the 19th Century
History 368: Europe in the Contemporary World
History 492: The French Revolution and Napoleon
History 770: The Shaping of Modern Europe: 1789-1914
History 771: The Shaping of Contemporary Europe
Humanities 202: Sophomore Honors Humanities Seminar

Teaching and Research Interests
European history, 1648 - present
Military history
Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
War and culture
The history of masculinity
Nationalism and national identity in France

Publications

Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée: Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808; under contract with New York University Press, and scheduled to appear in 2012

Book review, Brian Joseph Martin, Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy & Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France, in H-France Review, vol. 11 (August 2011), no. 177

"Celebrating the Grande Armée: Military Motivation and National Identity in the Armies of Napoleon," Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Selected Papers 2009. (forthcoming, accepted for publication)

Book review, Philip Dwyer, Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769-1799, in European History Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 2 (2010): 317-319

"Making Frenchmen into Warriors: Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France," in Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe, eds., French Masculinities: History, Culture, and Politics (Basingstroke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 51-66

Ph.D. dissertation, "Vive la République!, Vive l'Empereur!": Military Culture and Motivation in the Armies of Napoleon, 1803-1808 (University of Illinois, 2005)

"Singing the Praises of Napoleon: Songs as Media in the French Army of the Napoleonic Wars," in Mihail E. Ionescu, ed., Acta. War, Military and Media from Gutenberg to Today, Guerre, Armée et médias de Gutenberg à nos jours, Krieg, das Militår und die Medien von Gutenberg bis heute, Råzboi, armatå §i mass-media de la Gutenberg pânâ; în prezent. 29th International Congress of Military History, Bucharest, Romania, August 10-15, 2003 (Bucharest: Military Publishing House, 2004), 413-424

"Images of the Grognard: Songs, French Soldiers, and Military Culture in the Armies of Napoleon," in Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Selected Papers 2003. (forthcoming, accepted for publication)

Conference and Seminar Presentations

"Chercher la femme: Women and Sexuality in Napoleonic Military History," Campaign
Communities: New Historical Perspectives on Armies, Gender and the State, A Conference in Honor of John A. Lynn II, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 11, 2009

"Celebrating the Grande Armée: Military Motivation and National Identity in the Armies
of Napoleon," Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, 2009 Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 21, 2009

"Imperial Virtue: Military Culture and Motivation in the Armies of Napoleon," The Society for Military History Annual Conference, Ogden, Utah, April 18, 2008

"Napoleon's Manhood: The Making of Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France,"
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, 37th Annual Conference, Arlington, Virginia, March 1-3, 2007

"Singing the Praises of Napoleon: Songs as Media in the French Army of the Napoleonic Wars," XXIXth International Congress of Military History: "War, Military, and the Media from Gutenberg to Today," Bucharest, Romania, August 10-16, 2003

"Images of the Grognard: Songs, French Soldiers, and Military Culture in the Armies of Napoleon," Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, February 20-22, 2003

"Vive la République!, Vive l'Empereur!': Les motivations, les idées sur la nation, et les concepts de masculinité dans les Armées de Napoléon, 1800-1808," Séminaire méthodologique en histoire sociale et militaire, Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), April 25, 2001

Grants, Honors, and Awards

Iona College Junior Faculty Recognition Award, academic year 2009/2010

Chateaubriand Scholarship for Doctoral Research in France in the Social Sciences and Literature, academic year 2000/2001

Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, summer 2004, spring 1998

History Department Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, academic year 2002/2003

Enhancement Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, academic year 1996/1997

Graduated with "High Honors," Trenton State College

Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Alpha Theta honor societies

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