Alice C. M. Kwok
Email: amain2@wisc.edu
Address:
George L. Mosse Fellow: European Cultural History
Advisor: Suzanne Desan

Biography
I am a Ph.D. candidate broadly interested in the role of media and historical memory in negotiating French political culture after the Revolution of 1789. My dissertation examines the role of Old Norse literary texts as objects of a new, reactionary fascination within French medieval studies during the long nineteenth century.
Education
M.A., History, University of Wisconsin Madison (2018)
B.A., History and French, University of California Berkeley (2014)
Field
- European History, Gender and Women’s History
MA Title
- “Sexing the Terror: The Jeunesse Dorée and the Fall of the Parisian Jacobin Club (1794)”
Working Dissertation Title
- “The Revival of Old Norse Studies in Nineteenth-Century France”
Selected Awards
- 2023 Millstone Research Fellowship, Western Society for French History
- 2022 Summer Fellow, Frank Munson Institute of Maritime History, Mystic Seaport Museum
- 2022 Sandoway Writing Prize, Dept. of History, UW-Madison
- 2021 Inspirational Teaching Award, Dept. of History, UW-Madison
- 2021 Honorable Mention – Charlie Crouch Prize, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
- 2020 Love of Learning Award, Phi Kappa Phi
- 2019 Ronald S. Love Prize, Western Society for French History
- 2019 Research Travel Award, Graduate School, UW-Madison
- 2019 Summer Fieldwork Grant, Institute for Regional and International Studies, UW-Madison
- 2019 Dissertation Research Travel Award, Dept. of History, UW-Madison
- 2019 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, UW-Madison
- 2019 Teaching Assistant Exceptional Service Award, Dept. of History, UW-Madison
- 2018 Student Research Grant – Conference Travel, Graduate School, UW-Madison
- 2016 George L. Mosse Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Dept. of History, UW-Madison
- 2014 Colin Miller Prize in Modern European History, Dept. of History, UC-Berkeley
- 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, UC-Berkeley
- 2010 Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, UC-Berkeley
Professional Affiliations
- Society for French Historical Studies
- Western Society for French History
- New England Historical Association
Courses Taught as TA
- History 119 – Early Modern Europe and the World (Spring 2019)
- History 120 – European History 1815 – Present (Spring 2018)
- History 123 – English History to 1688 (Fall 2017)
- History 201 – The French Revolution (Fall 2018)
Courses Taught as Instructor
- 2022 Summer History 201: The Historian’s Craft – Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Online)
- 2021 Summer History 201: The Historian’s Craft – Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Online)
- 2020 Fall History 201: The Historian’s Craft – Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Online)