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Biography

Nicole Dombrowski-Risser is a Professor of History specializing in the history of women and child refugees in the Francophone world.  In particular, her scholarship has examined the displacement of French and Belgian civilians during the German occupation of France (1940-1944).

Currently, her research explores Francophone women鈥檚 philanthropic networks that have aided refugee mothers and children caught in Burundi and Rwanda鈥檚 violent conflicts (1993-present). She uses oral history and archival research to insert traditionally marginalized voices into the historical record. As a side-project, she also deploys this method to register histories of farming women鈥檚 experiences in rural France.

Teaching

Dombrowski-Risser teaches the introductory courses, 鈥淓uropean Civilization,鈥� 鈥淧aris in 20 Arrondissements鈥� and 鈥淭he Laws of War and Crimes Against Humanity in Historical Perspective鈥�.

Upper-level courses include, 鈥淢odern France,鈥� 鈥淕ender, War and Peace,鈥� 鈥淕lobal World War II,鈥� and 鈥淓uropean Rural History.鈥�

Books Published

•  German Invasion, Civilian Flight, and Family Survival during World War II. Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
• Enlisted with or Without Consent, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2004).

Selected Publications

• 鈥淚n Provence, a Woman鈥檚 Quest to Resist Industrial Farming and Transform and Preserve the French Family Farm,鈥� in Industrial French Food and Its Critics, Special Issue. Tamara Whited and Venus Bivar, editors. Modern & Contemporary France. Volume 28: No. 2 (May 2020): 209-229. DOI: .
• 鈥淐onflicted Power of the Pen: The Impact of French Internment on the Pacifist Convictions and Literary Imagination of Lion Feuchtwanger,鈥� French Politics, Culture & Society Volume 35: No. 3 (Winter 2018): 1-23.
• 鈥淭he Search for Civilian Safe Spaces: Re-Evacuation of Le Havre, Calais and Dunkerque in Response to British Bombing, September to March, 1940-41.鈥� France and Its Spaces of War. Patricia Lorcin and Daniel Brewer, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
• 鈥淭he Evolution of Modern Warfare as Related to Transformations in Modern Definitions of Citizenship: A Segmented Periodization of the Modern Era,鈥� in Nicola Foote and Nadya Williams, eds. Civilians and Warfare in World History. London and New York: Routledge. June, 2017.

Recent Book Reviews

• Review of Matthew Frank and Jessica Reinisch, eds., 鈥淩efugees in Europe 1919-1959: A Forty Years鈥� Crisis?鈥� (Bloomsbury, 2017). Journal of Central European History, 52:3 (September 2019): 531-533.
• Review of Greg Burgess, 鈥淭he League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler鈥檚 Victims.鈥� (Bloomsbury, 2016) Central European History, 50:4 (Dec. 2017): 588-590.
• Review of Julian Jackson, 鈥淔rance on Trial: The Case of Marshal P茅tain鈥� (Harvard University Press, 2023). H-France Forum (2024).
• Review of Julius Fein. Hitler鈥檚 Refugees and the French Response, 1933-1938. (Lexington Books, 2021). Central European History (Fall 2022). 

Awards and Honors

• CLA Faculty Research Grant for Rwanda, 2023
• Towson University Faculty Development Grant for Rwanda, 2021
• Institut du Monde d鈥橭livier (IMO), Residential Fellowship Nyons, France, 2017
• Chevaliers de l鈥橭livier, Nyons, France, 2011
• Remarque Institute, NYU, Kanderstag, Switzerland, 2011
• Princeton University Committee for Research in the Humanities, 1998
• Prize Teaching Fellowship, New York University, 1994
• Mellon Fellowship, Junior Faculty Research Award, 1993