Curriculum  vitae
Martine Geronimi, Ph.d.                                                 

6360 21eme avenue #201 H1X 3P9- CANADA, Phone (514) 972 3612 cellular

Mail : geronimi.martine@uqam.ca

Website:// http://www.oocities.org/cf/tourama2001/DrGERONIMI_CV

 

Associate Professor UQAM, Geography Department

Member of GREF (Research group on festive events)

COMITEE ADVISOR TEOROS, International Tourism Research Review

Associated Researcher LABTIC,

 ICT laboratory, School of Business Administration (ESG)- UQÀM)

PHD Geographical Sciences 2001, Laval University, Quebec city

EDUCATION

University Laval (QUEBEC), CANADA, Ph.D.

-Dissertation: Imaginary France in North America. Comparative geography of the heritage and tourist landscapes of the Vieux-Quebec in Quebec City and the Old Square in New Orleans.

-Dissertation Committee:  

Guy Mercier, Supervisor, Geographer (Laval University); Luc Noppen, Historian of Architecture (Laval University) ; Luc Bureau, Geographer (Laval University), Robert Stebbins, Sociologist, (Calgary University). Final Score: 4,082/4,3

 

Ph.D., GEOGRAPHY, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada, 2001

MASTER OF ARTS, GEOGRAPHY, University of Laval, Quebec, CANADA 1996

Other schools attended:

University of LYON II France, HISTORY Department, 1983 (Master curriculum)

University of LYON III France, GEOGRAPHY Department, 1975-1978, BACHELOR OF ARTS, GEOGRAPHY;

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

 

Fellowship 2001-2002 School of Business Administration (ESG)-UQÀM), Department of Urban and tourist Studies (DEUT) Canadian Research Chair in Urban Heritage and CELAT (Interuniversity Centre for Literature, Arts and Traditions)

 

Visiting Fellowship 2000-2001 Doctoral research fellow, Geographic Institute Sorbonne- Paris I Pantheon and CNRS-ISIS (Tourism Strategies and Information), Marne la Vallée University, Georges Cazes supervisor

Fellowships 1999-2000 for Dissertation Research in New Orleans at UNO College of Urban and Public Affair, Jane Brooks supervisor , CELAT Quebec, Codofil and Louisiana States

 

GRANTS      

 

·         CIFORT (International Center for Tourism Training and Research), 2002

·         CELAT Postdoctoral fellowship (Interuniversity Centre for Literature, Arts and Traditions), Montreal, 2001-2002

·         Canadian Research Chair in Urban Heritage, Montreal, 2001-2002

·         CELAT doctoral fellowship (Interuniversity Center for Literature, Arts and Traditions), Quebec city, 2000

·         Louisiana State and CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana), 1999

·         Desjardins Foundation, President Grant and Quebec Museum of Civilization, Funds for excellence 1998-1999

·         Quebec Museum of Civilization and Faculty of literature university Laval, Doctoral fellowship, 1998-1999

·         Quebec Museum of Civilization and Chair for the development of research on the culture of French expression in North America (CEFAN) 1997-1998

·         Funds for excellence, Laval University Foundation, 1996-1999 (3 years)

·         Departmental research Grant, Geography Department, Laval University, 1996-1998

 

 

Competencies

 

  1. Areas of Expertise

 

·         Cultural and heritage urban tourism

·         Tourism imagery

·         Identity and Memories

·         ICT for education

·         E-tourism

 

  1. RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

  • NEW ORLEANS – MONTREAL – PARIS

 

Interconnections between major tourist destinations emerging from French origin

 

Cultural change in tourism destination such as francophone destinations in an era of globalization

 

  • INTERNATIONAL IMPACTS OF E-TOURISM

 

The impacts of Internet:

 

The influence of new communications technologies on tourism: seeking competitiveness and competitive advantage

 

Information technology for developing destinations, visioning the future: Technology transforming Hospitality Business

 

  1. TEACHING INTERESTS

 

  • Teaching cultural and social impacts of the changing world
  • Teaching eTourism: New Concepts on Tourism Education and Training
  • Teaching International destinations particularly Francophone and European areas

 

  1. Faculty Leadership


2003-04:  Member of the ' think tank ' on the students’ population within the Office of the Institutional Research of the UQAM

 

  1. Departmental Leadership


2003-winter session: Project Responsible within program Committee for the reform of Geography Department programs UQAM



EXPERIENCE

1.      Research Experience

 

ICT RESEARCHS

 

LABTIC (ICT laboratory) School of Business Administration (ESG)- UQÀM)

 

2002-              Initiated Tourism research about use of websites for promoting destinations such as Quebec in respect of authenticity and sustainability

 

2002-2003      Developed E-learning researchs, WEBct platform uses in geography class

 

LABTIC (ICT laboratory) School of Business Administration (ESG)- UQÀM)

2001-2002 during Postdoctoral Fellowship

Main researcher (Project responsible)

Research Project: Adaptation to Information Technologies at UQAM; Strategies emerging from Teachers' attitudes and behaviours at the University level

 

Collaborative preparation (brainstorming)

Developed survey’s questions

Recruited a team composed with six Students in order to achieve 350 face to face or phone call interviews

Co-ordinated and supervised Interviews

Analyzed results and written final report

 

2000-2001 Doctoral research fellow, Geographic Institute Sorbonne- Paris I Pantheon

and CNRS-ISIS (Tourism Strategies and Information), Marne la Vallée University, Georges Cazes supervisor and N. Baron-Yelles

Participation to the Think Tank : Study of inter-connected between the information systems, new technologies (Internet, Intranet, systems of reservation on line...) and the strategies of the tourist sector

 

Tourism researches

 

2001-2002 - Postdoctoral Fellowship

Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage and CELAT (Interuniversity Centre for

Literature, Arts and Traditions) with Luc Noppen and Lucie K. Morisset

Research Project: Urban regeneration and Tourism, Montreal Bohemian City, Culture for a better quality of life

 

1996-2000- Doctoral research

Quebec and New Orleans

 

·         1996-1998 Doctoral research fellow, Laval University, CELAT, Guy Mercier supervisor, professor of Human geography

·         1999-2000 Doctoral research fellow, College of Urban and Public Affairs, UNO, Jane Brooks supervisor, professor in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation.

Conducted doctoral research in New Orleans for my thesis

 

Themes : Heritage tourism, Landscape, French Memory, Mass tourism, postmodern society, townscape, historic geography, Quebec, New Orleans

 

2.      Teaching Experience

 

UQAM (UNIVERSITY OF QUÉBEC IN MONTREAL), Montreal, Canada

 

School of Business Administration (ESG-UQÀM) Department of Urban and tourist Studies (DEUT)

 

2002-2003   Tourism Geography Course for Undergraduate Student

 

Successfully realized experiment with WEBCT3 platform

Developed complete web course

Conceived special web design

Elaborated and designed 20 PowerPoint presentations presented on campus and available for student on WEBCT platform

Operated Internet and videos within classroom

Elaborated electronic portfolios method in order to help students creating their own Website and collaborative portfolios

Gave students opportunities to participate in course content by sharing their work in Classroom and on WebCt3 platform

Supervised 30 to 46 students' progress through Webct attendance

Encouraged and gave support on-line to students at anytime, even on week- end

 

 Geography Department – UQAM

 

Autumn 2002 ; 2 CLASSES

  • Developed complete new Web course in historical and Cultural Geography

Initiated successful utilization of an Agora on Webct Platform, true virtual classroom

 

  • Taught urban Geography with traditional and new Methods using the Web, especially Montreal underground city and the Old Montreal Lighting Plan in relation with tourism economy

 

INSTITUT VATEL, INTERNATIONAL HOTEL AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT

SCHOOL, Paris

2000-2001

Master Class: International tourism Culture

Prepared students to international environment

Undergraduate: tourist geography and European culture

Taught North-European Country, including Great Britain, Germany and Sweden

 

Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Geography department

2 sessions 1998, 1999

Introduced students to geographic fields, urban geography, landscape and tourism, the case of Quebec City

Prepared students for survey techniques with social actors (tourists, local tradesmen, city planners)

Organized meeting with Quebec city planner’s board for students

Made students aware of social impacts related to the alteration of central district by City-planning, the case of Mail St-Roch in Quebec City

 

Geography department

2 sessions 1997, 1998

Taught History of Geographical Thought from Antiquity to now

Introduced Students to the history and development of ideas in Geography,

Discussed some of the classic texts of geographical enquiry from the period 1500-1900

Exposed students to various schools of thought in the geographic discipline

Assisted students to develop critical and analytical capability

 

Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Graduate teaching assistant, Prof. Guy Mercier, Geography department, 1994-1996.

 

Lycee Ozanam, Macon, France, 1993

Tourism management in France

Prepared college students to become professional guides

 

other International Professional Experience


 MANAGEMENT ET MARKETING EMPLOYMENT

 

1996-1998 Management and Marketing for the journal Cahiers de Géographie du Québec, Laval university

 

1987-1993 Management of my own Business, Boutique Hugo Boss, Clinton’s Tassin-la-Demi Lune, France

 

Foreign Study

France, Canada, USA

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 PUBLICATIONS

  • Paper

Forthcoming

 

2003     Les Américaines de la Classe des Loisirs et le Grand Tour en 1900, Téoros, vol 2-2

Translation: Grand Tour and American Women in 1900. A model .

 

 

Published:

 

2003     La Nouvelle-Orléans et le tourisme sexuel: l’expérience de Storyville, Téoros, vol 2, no 1 pp. 36-43 Printemps 2003

Translation: Storyville in New Orleans and Sexual Tourism (1898-1917)

 

2003     (M. Geronimi) " Géographie historique des paysages patrimoniaux et touristiques de mémoire française. Étude comparative du Vieux-Québec et du Vieux Carré" Les Annales de Géographie numéro 629, pp. 49-71 tourisme et Patrimoine

Translation: Historical geography of the heritage and tourist landscapes of French memory. Comparative study of Quebec and New Orleans. Special  Tourism and Heritage

 

2002 (M. Geronimi) " Le French Market à la Nouvelle Orléans ; alibi patrimonial et mise en scène touristique d’un espace préservé", Ethnologies, 24 -1/2002, volume spécial intitulé Space/Espace

Translation: Preserved French Market in New Orleans ; touristification and commodification of French Memory

 

2001 (M.Geronimi) Panorama du tourisme des jeunes en France, Téoros, vol 20, no 3,

Automne 2001

Translation: Panorama of Young Tourists in France

 

2001 (M.Geronimi), "New Orleans's French Market, Preserved Past, Heritage Pretext and Commercial Glorification" Society for the study of architecture in Canada (SSAC), Automn 2001,

 

2001 (M.Geronimi), " Parade Zulu et carnaval indien, un mardi gras different à La Nouvelle Orléans." volume 23, Dans Ethnologies volume spécial intitulé Festival/Non festival, 89-122

Translation: Zulu Parade and Indian Carnivals: Different Fat Tuesday in New Orleans

 

2001 (M.Geronimi), " Imaginaire français en Amérique du Nord : genèse d’un tourisme de distinction à Québec et la Nouvelle-Orléans, Anthropologie et Sociétés", volume 25, numéro 2, 151-170.

Translation: French Imagination in North America. Genesis of Elitist Tourism in Quebec and New Orleans in XIXth Century  

 

1999 (M.Geronimi), " Images du Vieux-Québec : construction d'un paysage de mémoire française et consommation touristique." Stadel, Christoph, dir. Themes and Issues of Canadian Geography III/Beitraege zur Geographie Kanadas III, Salzburger Geographische

Arbeiten, vol. 35, Salzburg, 77-97

Translation: Old Quebec Images; Construction of a Landscape of French Memory and Tourist Consumption

 

1996 (M.Geronimi), "Québec dans les discours des guides touristiques ,1830-1930. " Canadian Folklore Canadien 1996, volume 18, no2, volume spécial, Transactions identitaires, 70 90

Translation: Quebec in the speeches of the tourist guides, 1830-1930.

 

  • Paper in a book

1999 (M.Geronimi)- Permanence paysagère et consommation touristique : le cas du Vieux-Québec, Cazelais N., Nadeau R. et Beaudet G., dir. L’espace touristique, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec 199-212

Translation: Landscape permanence and tourist consumption: the case of Old Quebec

 

 

  • Book

2003     (M. Geronimi) “Paysages imaginaires français en Amérique du Nord, Québec et la Nouvelle-Orléans”, (Publication chez Belin, éditeur collection Mappemonde

Translation:  French Images in North America, Quebec and New Orleans Manuscript at Belin Paris, editor (in process) Mappemonde Collection

 

BOOK ABSTRACT:

 Two of the main cities of New France (1535-1763), Quebec City and New Orleans, figure amongst the most famous worldwide tourist destinations. For more than two centuries, their ancient districts have benefited from the steady interest of tourists, attracted by the mark of History left on their buildings and public places. Aside from History, the French origins of these two cities certainly accounts for one of their most attractive features, despite the fact that both were lost by the French, and that their inhabitants eventually had to adopt the ways of their English conquerors. Why, then, has their French character become (and still remains) so desirable?

 

This book argues that heritage should be considered as the cultural industry of our time. Heritage is consumed today, the same way other products of mass consumption are. Mass tourism, in turn, is having major repercussions on the landscapes of both Quebec City and New Orleans. A townscape, apparently made up from start to finish from a French model, is being transformed into an international tourist consumption landscape, a contemporary result of deconstruction. In that sense, Quebec City and New Orleans are a reflection of our postmodern society in this transition period we are now witnessing.

 

ABSTRACT PUBLISHED

 

2002     (M. Geronimi)   Imaginary France in North America. Comparative geography of the heritage and tourist landscapes of the Vieux Quebec in Quebec City and the Old Square in New Orleans. Tourism Geographies : 4,4 novembre

 

2001     (M. Geronimi) Imaginaires français en Amérique du Nord, Position de Thèses, Inter-géo Bulletin, 2/2001, Paris Prodig, CNRS, pp. 53-55

Translation : French Imaginaries in North America

 

 

INTERNET PUBLICATIONS

 

2003 Bédard F., Geronimi M., Final report on Adaptation to Information Technologies at UQAM; Strategies emerging from Teachers' attitudes and behaviors at the University level, Montreal, Labtic, UQAM

 

 

2002 (M.Geronimi) Expérience de classe réussie avec Webct : commentaires et recettes, revue Thot, 4-9-2002

Translation: Successful Experiment with Webct in Tourism class: comments and receipts

 

Review editor

 

2002 (M.Geronimi), " Tourisme dans les villes Capitales ", Téoros, vol. 22- 1

            Translation : Tourism in Capital Cities   

                                                        

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

Review Editor

2003 (M.Geronimi), " Les routes touristiques à thèmes", Téoros, vol. 23- 2

            Translation: Thematic Tourist Roads    

           

 

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

 

ICT presentations

2003     “Using Webct in my tourism geography class “, AAG Nouvelle Orléans- 7 mars

 

2003     " Expériences, usages et évaluation par les étudiants de leurs cours de géographie sur Webct ", Conférence AIPU (International Association of University Pedagogy), 29 mai Sherbrooke

Translation: Experiments, uses and evaluation by the students of their courses of geography on Webct

 

2003     " Expérience réussie de la création et de l'utilisation d'une Agora asynchrone sur Webct, dans le cadre d'un nouveau cours de géographie historique et culturelle, Colloque CAPTIC, 13 mars Québec

Translation: Successful Experiment of the creation and the use of an asynchronous Agora on Webct, within the framework of a new course of historical and cultural geography

 

2002          Démonstration de visualisation interactive d’un site de classe de Tourisme sur Webct3, Pré-colloque ETS Écoles de technologie supérieure de Montréal, 12 novembre

Workshop Engineering and Technology School, Montreal, Demonstration of interactive visualization of a site of class of tourism on Webct3

 

2002          Colloque de l'UQ 24-25 avril, dans le cadre de la troisième édition des Journées-réseau sur l'appropriation des TIC : Enseignement universitaire & TIC Bâtir des succès ! " Présentation d'un site de cours de géographie touristique sur Webct : exemple d'une utilisation pédagogique gagnante en classe et en situation d'apprentissage avec trace des navigations"

Translation: Presentation of a site of tourist geography course on Webct: example of a winning teaching use in class with performance tracking features

 

Presentation: http://www.uquebec.ca/uqtic2002/powerpoint/geronimi.pps

 

 

International Tourism Presentation

2003     (M. Geronimi)  “ Sentiment patrimonial et préservation d'une ville du patrimoine mondial : les résidents du Vieux-Québec entre patrimoine et tourisme “. Saumur, Université d’Été 13-16 octobre

Translation: Sense of Heritage and Preservation in a World Heritage City: Residents of Vieux Quebec between Heritage and Tourism

 

2003     (M Geronimi ) “ The Road to Utopia or the road to Nowhere : New Orleans and Quebec“ Panel Author meet Critics, AAG New Orleans- 6 mars

 

2000     (M. Geronimi) “ Espace touristique, décor patrimonial, ambiance française : le Vieux Carré à la Nouvelle-Orléans”, Séminaire IFIS, Université Marne-la-Vallée, Groupe Stratégies Touristiques et Information 1er Décembre

Translation: Tourist Place, Heritage Scene, French ambiance: New Orleans French Quarter

 

2000     (M. Geronimi) “ Reinvented French traditions in North America: a comparative study of the space and time of Carnival in New Orleans, Quebec City, and Nice ”, Cabildo Museum, New Orleans, Fat Tuesday Conference 2000, 3 March

 

2000          (M. Geronimi) “ Le Vieux-Québec, ville de patrimoine mondial, perspectives

touristiques”, Séminaire Institut de Géographie, Paris I Sorbonne Panthéon, Cours de maîtrise de Georges Cazes, juin

Translation: Old Quebec, World Heritage City. Tourist perspectives

 

1999     (M. Geronimi) “ Vieux-Québec et Vieux Carré, entre patrimoine et tourisme, pistes de recherche.”, Alliance Française, Nouvelle-Orléans, Café Bavardage,  14 février.

Translation: Old Quebec and Old Square, between Tourism and Heritage

 

1999     (M. Geronimi) “Image of Old Quebec in the 19th century”, SWACS Conference, New Orleans, January 30-31

 

1998        (M. Geronimi) “ L'héritage Français du Vieux-Québec et la conservation du patrimoine”, Alliance Française, Santa Rosa (Californie),  14 septembre

Translation: French Memory and Heritage Preservation in Quebec City

 

Multimedia presentation in Tourism

 

2003     " Québec et la Nouvelle-Orléans, vice et vertu en Amérique française : l’imaginaire des touristes américains.", Agence Francophone Internationale, 26 mai Québec

Translation: Quebec and New Orleans, vice and virtue in French America: American Tourists Fantasies

 

2003 Tourisme sexuel à la Nouvelle Orléans, Storyville et l’invention d’une tradition ?", ACFAS (Francophone Association for Knowledge), 21 mai Rimouski

Translation: Sexual Tourism in New Orleans, Storyville, an Invented Tradition?

 

2002 Imaginaire Français en Amérique du Nord, l'espace du Carnaval à la Nouvelle-Orléans, Séminaire Célat, Uqam 29 novembre

Translation: French Imaginary in North America, Carnival Scene in New Orleans

 

2001     Urbanisme et Préservation dans deux villes de mémoire française en Amérique, Institut d'urbanisme, Université de Montréal, 20 novembre

Translation: Urban planning and preservation of two French Tourist-History Cities

 

2001     Espace touristique, décor patrimonial, ambiance française : Le French Market à la Nouvelle Orléans, Séminaire Département Études urbaines et touristiques, UQAM, 15 novembre

Translation: Tourist Place, Heritage Scene, French ambiance: New Orleans French Quarter

 

2001     Tourisme et Aménagement urbain. Les cas de la Place Royale à Québec et du French Market à la Nouvelle-Orléans. Séminaire Département de Géographie, UQAM, 8 novembre

Translation:  Tourism and Urban Planning: Place Royale in Quebec and French Market in New Orleans

 

 

JOURNAL/PRESS AFFILIATION

  • TEOROS, Book Reviewer
  • REVUE GÉOGRAPHIE DU QUEBEC, Book Reviewer
  • ANTHROPOLOGIE ET SOCIETE, Book Reviewer
  • ETHNOLOGIE, Book Reviewer
  • APGQ, Book Reviewer

 

Membership in Professional Societies

 

  • Association of American Geographers
  • Recreation, Tourism, and Sports Specialty Group (AAG)
  • association of Canadian Studies in the united States
  • association professionnelle des géographes du québec
  • association francophone du savoir

 

Language Competencies

 

French:  Native speaker

English: Reading, writing, listening, speaking fluently

Polish:   Reading and writing good. Listening and speaking fluently.

German: Reading and writing good. Listening and speaking fair.


Travel Abroad

1993-2003 :    Traveled through North America, perfect Knowledge of Quebec and Louisiana

1983-1993:     Traveled extensively through Western and Eastern Europe, Poland in particular.

FOREIGN RESIDENCE

Permanent resident in CANADA

French citizenship

1994-2003 :  CANADA ( MONTREAL and QUEBEC CITY).

-1994 :           FRANCE