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Dr Nina S. Studer
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Historian.

History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. 🗃️🍸

Passionate about literature and theatre.

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https://nina-studer.com
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Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Nov 10
A list of all my publications can be found on my website (nina-studer.com/work-publica...), but let me tell you about my #OpenAccess publications! #ColonialHistory #GenderStudies #DrinkingStudies #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfPsychiatry 🗃️
Work, Publications, Research - Nina S. Studer
Publications, academic articles, popular history articles, book chapters, reviews and presentations by Nina Studer.
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Another two lovely reviews of #TheHourOfAbsinthe: In Petits Propos Culinaires, @neilbuttery.bsky.social wrote: "In this fascinating book, Studer identifies untruths and exposes prejudices, allowing evidence to lead her to any conclusions made." Thanks so much! journal.equinoxpub.com/ppc/article/...
January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Bit belated - but happy new year to all my followers! This sketch for the absinthe brand Cusenier from 1907 claims that Cusenier is "the best New Year's gift - This is the only useful gift the boss received for New Year's: a bottle of Cusenier Oxygénée!" 🗃️🍸 #DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #AlcoholAdverts
This images shows a sketch from a newspaper, in black on yellowish paper. It shows a room with a couple of plants in the background. A middle-aged man in formal clothes sits in a chair, his back towards the readers, but turning around to them. Around him are luxury items: paintings, a statue, a gramophone, some bottles of alcohol, books and more. In his hand, the man holds a bottle of absinthe, smiling. Under the image, it says: "Le Meilleur Cadeau du jour de l'an. - Voilà le seul Cadeau utile que le patron ait reçu pour ses étrennes: une bouteille d'Oxygénée Cusenier!" Translation into English is in the post. This sketch is by the French book illustrator Joseph Hémard and was published in "Le Sourire", on the 21th of December 1907, p. 10.
January 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer
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Since Book Recommendations is trending, I recommend The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink, which has an excellent write-up in the December 2025 issue of the American Historical Review.

#Books #BookSky #Culture #Historians

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Nina S. Studer. The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink.
Nina S. Studer’s book The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink is a welcome and much-needed addition to the growing field
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December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Visited the sort of appropriately-named Goulston Street to see this vampiric new invader.

#GothicLondon #Invader #InvaderWasHere #NewInvasion #StreetArt
8-bit art of vampire on a brick wall. Day.
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Dr Nina S. Studer
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For those who like a festive tipple, we’ve got cocktail creations from the jazz age and beyond, books for wine connoisseurs, and tales of the origins of Absinthe
Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi

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December 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Very happy to see The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink among the recommendations.

#Books #BookSky #Christmas #Culture #Historians
mngupbooks.bsky.social MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · Dec 12
For those who like a festive tipple, we’ve got cocktail creations from the jazz age and beyond, books for wine connoisseurs, and tales of the origins of Absinthe
Browse more: buff.ly/FEDRIRi

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#GiftGuide
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Day Two at #ReadQuebec! Thanks again to AELAQ for making it happen.
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Day One at Read Quebec! Thanks to our brilliant colleagues at aelaq for organizing the New Knowledge: Nonfiction Lightning Round with MQUP authors Martha Langford, Stephen Monteiro, Alex Tipei, and Tom Waugh.
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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And I am also very happy about the new review on H-France on my book #TheHourOfAbsinthe, by Adam Zientek (whose book "A Thirst for Wine and War" is great, btw)! According to him: "Nevertheless, The Hour of Absinthe is necessary reading for those interested in the history of alcohol and that [...]
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December 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Very happy that my article "Imperial Masculinities: Involuntary Losses of Semen as Markers of White Virility (France, 1830s–1880s)" is out now, in the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health! brill.com/view/journal...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Very happy that my article on Dorothée Chellier - the first female doctor in colonial Algeria - has been published in the last issue of The Maghreb Review (Vol. 50, No 4 (2025))! #skystorian #Algeria #FrenchHistory #histmed 🗃️
This image shows the content page of the last issue of The Maghreb Review, Vol. 50, No 4 (2025). It shows articles by several different people, amongst them, the fourth from the top: Nina Salouâ Studer: "Female Agents of Colonialism: Women Doctors in Algeria at the Turn of the Century". This image is a screenshot of the abstract of my article "Female Agents of Colonialism: Women Doctors in Algeria at the Turn of the Century". The abstract says: "Dorothée Chellier was born in Algiers in 1860 to French settler parents and became the first female French doctor in colonial Algeria, after completing her studies in Paris. As she had in-depth knowledge of the country, she was sent on “medical missions” to various parts of remote Algeria in the 1890s with the express goal of observing the lives and medical problems of “native” women. Chellier published a short book about a mission to the Aurès region in 1895, in which she focused on gynaecological issues among Algerian women. She often described how these women voluntarily contacted and trusted her, apparently eager to get help from a female French doctor. She also highlighted the importance of female medical experts for the future of France’s colonial project in Algeria, as Muslim women had been mostly hidden from her male counterparts throughout the 19th century. This chapter proposes to analyse Chellier’s detailed descriptions of (the limitations of) the agency of Algerian women and contrast this with her own actions, influences and reception. Upon publication in 1895, her book was well received in French newspapers and her pioneering work served as an example to those female French doctors, like Hélène Abadie-Feyguine and Françoise Legey, who became active around the turn of the century in colonial Algeria. While sympathetic to many aspects of the lives of Algerian women, it is important to frame Chellier as an agent of colonialism. She defined her goals as providing medical help to formerly neglected groups in Algeria, as well as helping to “educate” the masses that she clearly viewed as being ignorant and unwilling to conform with France’s guidance. This was in line with the ideology of France’s paternalistic mission civilisatrice and with the opinions professed by her male colleagues."
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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My wonderful friend, Cordelia Bähr, co-authored a book based on her successfully bringing a Swiss case to the European Court of Human Rights - the case of the #Klimaseniorinnen. The court ruled that protection from climate change is a human right #climate #ClimateChange #Klima #newbook
Picture is a photograph of a book on a black background. It shows a scene in the mountains, where people put a gigantic plaster on a melting glacier. Around the plaster, there are about 20 people. The title of the book is in orange: "Als die Schweiz ins Schwitzen kam: Die Klimaseniorinnen" ("When Switzerland broke out in a sweat: the climate seniors"). The authors are Brigitte Hürlimann, Cordelia Bähr and Elisabeth Stern.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Very happy with this lovely article about our exhibition (on the medical history of machines and treatments against wet dreams) at the "Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités" in Geneva!

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🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians
October 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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And more for people in Switzerland: I will give a presentation with the title "Leaky Masculinities: Imperialism & Nocturnal Pollutions in 19th-Century Medical Theories" at the ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History in Zürich next week! Do come!

🗃️ #histmed #skystorians
Screenshot of the programme of the "Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-Euroepan History", on Thursdays, 16:15-17:45, at ETH Zürich Hauptgebäude, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich. At the top, it says "University of Zürich" and "ETH Zürich". Below this is a 19th-century map of the world, showing, I guess, trading routes. Below this map, it shows the first two presentations of this seminar. The first is one by Dr. Lasse Heerten (on the 2nd of October), and the second is by Dr. Nina Studer (Université de Genève), on the 16th of October 2025.
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A!

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This image shows a black and white, early 20th century French advert for an electronic belt (Herculex, by a Dr Sanden), early 20th century. On the right hand side is the drawing of an older man in formal clothes, while on the left hand side, there is a drawing of two young, white men, wearing only shorts. The one on the left is holding up one of these belts in his right hand, while also wearing one, while the one on the right is on his knees, in the process of getting up, looking up at the other man. The title of this advert is "Regained Virility".
October 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Me and my wandering womb are thrilled to see the Nursing Clio Reader in print! Kudos to the whole @nursingclio.bsky.social team on an amazing volume!
September 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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There was even the idea, both in Britain in the 19th & in France's North African colonies in the 20th century, of teaism/theism/théisme, a problem viewed as potentially worse than alcoholism! One of my very favourite topics!
susiedentwords.bsky.social Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · Aug 21
Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
August 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Even though outside my field of research, I've long been aware of the adverts for "Salem Aleikum" cigarettes, produced in late 19th/early 20th century Dresden. Today I have come across this bizarre image from 1903 of a horned (?), pointy-eared bearded smoking man. I am at a loss - ideas? 🗃️🚬 #History
This image shows a black and white advert. In the middle is the image of a bearded man. It is a close-up of his face. In his right hand, he holds a cigarettes and swirls of smoke can be seen around his face. He has large pointy ears and seems to have horns. The text says, in German: "Oh, this is a treat. No frills. Just quality. Salem Aleikum-Cigarettes". This image can be found in "Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben", 1903, 2, p. 27.
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I spoke with the wonderful Diana Abbani about my book "The Hour of Absinthe", published as part of the #MECAM blog series on TRAFO (the Blog for Transregional Research): trafo.hypotheses.org/60708

Do have a look! 🗃️🍸 #DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #HistoryOfAlcohol #Colonialism #ColonialHistory #Maghreb
The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink – A Conversation with Nina Studer
Diana Abbani in Conversation with Nina Studer. In her book "The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink”, Studer explores the history of absinthe through the lenses of cu...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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In preparation of an exhibition on 19th-century machines & treatments against wet dreams that we - @wetdreams-hist.bsky.social - are organising in October 2025 in Geneva, I have written - in French - a summary of one of François Lallemand's most interesting case studies for our blog! 🗃️ #histmed
July 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jun 14
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Came across on of these "in the wild" - in Stockholm of all places! I spotted it in the street, on the wall of the Bistrot "Pastis"! #DrinkingStudies 🗃🍸
Image of a part of an outside wall, during the day. A stop sign can be seen and a lamp. On the left hand side is a yellow poster for Ricard, showing a desert scene, with a camel carrying alcohol and led by a man in North African, heavily Orientalised clothes.
June 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Court cases - many of them murder cases! - are also often "humorously" depicted in these Oxygénée Cusenier sketches in "Le Sourire". In these, absinthe either played a role in the crimes or the defendants referred to absinthe to prove their truthfulness or humanity. Very strange! #DrinkingStudies 🗃️🍸
This image shows a black sketch on yellowish paper. It shows a court room, with the defendant (who has dark hair and a moustache and is wearing a coat) in the front. We see him half from the back. He is holding up his right arm. In the background are two men in dark-clothes, staring at the defendant. Below the sketch, it says, in French: "Swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. - I swear. - Tell us what you know. - What I know? That the one, the only, the best [drink], is Oxygénée Cusenier. Is that the truth?" This image was published in "Le Sourire" on the 09.12.1905, p.11. This image shows a sketch, black on yellowish paper. Warning - it is rather gruesome. It shows a group of men in a room. In the centre is a man sitting on a stool, labelled in the description as Jean Hiroux, a mythical criminal in 19th-century France. He wears striped trousers and a white shirt. His head is shaved and his hands are bound behind his back. To his right is an older man in a uniform with keys in his left hand - clearly the jailer. On the left and behind the prisoner are five other men, all wearing black clothes and looking very serious. One of them is talking to the prisoner, while another one does something to his neck - perhaps measuring him? Below the image it says in French: "Supreme deception. Jean Hiroux. - I don't care that they refused me my pardon... But that I should be refused a Oxygénée Cusenier, that's barbarism! ..." This image was published in "Le Sourire" on the 13.02.1909, p.10. This image shows a black sketch on yellowish paper. It shows a scene in a court room. On the right hand side is a group of three men. The one in the middle is the defendant, who is standing up and talking to the judges in the background. He is dark-haired and has a moustache. He wears striped trousers and a dark coat. Behind him is a man in a uniform. In front of him, on a bench, there is another man, perhaps his lawyer? In the background, on the left is a second set of three men, all judges. While two of them smile at the defendant, the one in the middle ("Le Président", older and with a white beard) looks very serious and his hand is raised, in refusal. Below the image it says in French: "Le Président. - So you were drinking before you killed your victim... What did you drink? Absinthe? - The accused. - Yes, mon Président. Unfortunately for me it wasn't Oxygénée Cusenier... The resident [sic]. - No advertising here! Say rather why you wanted to make the corpse disappear. The accused. - Why, mon Président, the cloak was in the way [a pun, because this phrase "l'occis gênait" sounds like l'Oxygénée]... The President. - Once again, I repeat, no advertising here!" This sketch was published in "Le Sourire" on the 16.01.1909, p.9.
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM