Patricia Goldsworthy
@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
Pinned
It's not out yet, but I can still promote my book (I have the proofs!)
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
I'm looking for a Paris apartment to rent for 3-4 weeks in late March - early April (preferably 2 bedrooms, although a bedroom plus a sofa bed would work). Two adults and a kid. Does anyone have any leads? Thanks!
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I'm looking for a Paris apartment to rent for 3-4 weeks in late March - early April (preferably 2 bedrooms, although a bedroom plus a sofa bed would work). Two adults and a kid. Does anyone have any leads? Thanks!
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I had the pleasure of reviewing @elisefranklin.bsky.social terrific book Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France for the AHR. Here's sneak preview:
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I had the pleasure of reviewing @elisefranklin.bsky.social terrific book Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France for the AHR. Here's sneak preview:
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If anyone needs a place to start learning about the long, intertwined history of the US and Latin America, Greg Grandin's America, América is pretty good.
America, América: A New History of the New World
A New History of the New World
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January 3, 2026 at 12:35 PM
If anyone needs a place to start learning about the long, intertwined history of the US and Latin America, Greg Grandin's America, América is pretty good.
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An author asked for guidance on how to write a response to reader reports. My answer was pretty quick and dirty for practical reasons, but here's what I said. It ends with a link to much more thorough, helpful advice:
Responses can take the form of a letter to the editor/press . . . 1/?
Responses can take the form of a letter to the editor/press . . . 1/?
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
An author asked for guidance on how to write a response to reader reports. My answer was pretty quick and dirty for practical reasons, but here's what I said. It ends with a link to much more thorough, helpful advice:
Responses can take the form of a letter to the editor/press . . . 1/?
Responses can take the form of a letter to the editor/press . . . 1/?
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You can get 25% off if you preorder a copy of my book from Barnes and Noble between now and Jan. 1!
Use the code: PREORDER25
Use the code: PREORDER25
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You can get 25% off if you preorder a copy of my book from Barnes and Noble between now and Jan. 1!
Use the code: PREORDER25
Use the code: PREORDER25
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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1957 ... Avec les néofascistes et tortionnaires Le Pen et Lagaillarde.
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
1957 ... Avec les néofascistes et tortionnaires Le Pen et Lagaillarde.
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Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France
Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I
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December 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
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Fascism scholars: I'm looking for articles for undergrads similar to Tooze's The Deluge but shorter: readings that hit on shifting global structures that pushed German/Italian/Japanese fascists toward imperialist expansion, with an emphasis on the autarkic elements of fascism. Any recommendations?
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fascism scholars: I'm looking for articles for undergrads similar to Tooze's The Deluge but shorter: readings that hit on shifting global structures that pushed German/Italian/Japanese fascists toward imperialist expansion, with an emphasis on the autarkic elements of fascism. Any recommendations?
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Thank goodness conservatives are bringing hard work, high-standards, serious thinking, free speech, & merit-based grading back to higher education
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Thank goodness conservatives are bringing hard work, high-standards, serious thinking, free speech, & merit-based grading back to higher education
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Oh! And as Abed would say, 'Read the documents!' learnpalestine.qeh.ox.ac.uk
The Palestinian Revolution
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December 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Oh! And as Abed would say, 'Read the documents!' learnpalestine.qeh.ox.ac.uk
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With the end of the year approaching, this news made my month. “Media of the Masses” is a bestseller in Egypt : )
December 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
With the end of the year approaching, this news made my month. “Media of the Masses” is a bestseller in Egypt : )
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The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
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One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
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My life's work lies in ruins
The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My life's work lies in ruins
The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
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My book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalepress.bsky.social) has been out for 6 months! I’m thrilled that in 2026, it will be available as an audiobook (March) and a paperback (July)!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I Have Avenged America
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule ...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom_ (@yalepress.bsky.social) has been out for 6 months! I’m thrilled that in 2026, it will be available as an audiobook (March) and a paperback (July)!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Youth travel and exchange has often been a prelude to deepening European integration. It has been a fundamental first step. There are many historical examples—including the UK.
Ask me how I know 🤔
Ask me how I know 🤔
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Youth travel and exchange has often been a prelude to deepening European integration. It has been a fundamental first step. There are many historical examples—including the UK.
Ask me how I know 🤔
Ask me how I know 🤔
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Very happy that my article in the @sfhs.bsky.social journal is out. It's my first exploration of the argument I am making in my book project about elite women during the Directory and how they were re-conceptualized in theater and literature in the 19th century. read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Reconstructing the 1790s in Literature and Theater: The (Re)Invention of the Merveilleuses Under the Second Empire and Third Republic
Abstract. The Directory (1795–1799) is often defined by the female fashion plates, the Merveilleuses, along with their male counterparts, the Incroyables, who also share the blame for the regime's cor...
read.dukeupress.edu
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Very happy that my article in the @sfhs.bsky.social journal is out. It's my first exploration of the argument I am making in my book project about elite women during the Directory and how they were re-conceptualized in theater and literature in the 19th century. read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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OMG these poor students and TAs
"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."
2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large
Brown professor says shooting happened in a study session for her economics class
www.oceanstatemedia.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
OMG these poor students and TAs
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Reposting to make sure all the fab authors in this latest issue catch your attention!
We're delighted to announce that vol. 51 (2025) of the Journal of the Western Society for French History is now live!
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
We're open access, so no paywalls or other impediments to your full reading enjoyment. Here's the link to the full table of contents:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/issue/3...
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposting to make sure all the fab authors in this latest issue catch your attention!
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The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
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A new(ish) book thinking through French interventions in post-colonial Africa:
Colonialism Devours Itself | Hurst Publishers
A historically grounded account, from de Gaulle onwards, of how France's neocolonial influence crumbled in Africa, with devastating and unforeseen consequences.
www.hurstpublishers.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A new(ish) book thinking through French interventions in post-colonial Africa:
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what is esp nice abt this is that I got a chance to shout-out some amazing work, incl a SI in @pomeps.bsky.social on Race Politics and Colonial Legacies: France, Africa, and the Middle East; Respectable Muslims by Margot Dazey, and 2 amazing films: Dahomey and The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
9. The 2025 edition of the JWSFH MIXTAPE, featuring selections of rad work from 2024-25 by @jean23bean.bsky.social @vlvde.bsky.social & @thewsfh.bsky.social Past President Emily Marker (with amazing original art by @tgpeterson.bsky.social)
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...
<em>JWSFH</em> Mixtape: 2025 Edition
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journals.publishing.umich.edu
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
what is esp nice abt this is that I got a chance to shout-out some amazing work, incl a SI in @pomeps.bsky.social on Race Politics and Colonial Legacies: France, Africa, and the Middle East; Respectable Muslims by Margot Dazey, and 2 amazing films: Dahomey and The Ballad of Suzanne Cesaire
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Stopping data centers is anti-fascist activism. You heard it from me; now go and spread the good word. We can and must stop them or slow them from being built.
The Fight to Stop Data Center Creep - Truthdig
Generative AI isn’t inevitable, and people are already fighting hard to keep power-hungry data centers out of their communities.
www.truthdig.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Stopping data centers is anti-fascist activism. You heard it from me; now go and spread the good word. We can and must stop them or slow them from being built.
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The 'contract' for the first French colony in the Caribbean, St Christopher, 13th January 1627. Drawn up and signed in the Normandy port of Le Havre by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc and Urbain de Roissey, it launched a 'Company for the Islands' with Cardinal Richelieu as a major stakeholder.
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The 'contract' for the first French colony in the Caribbean, St Christopher, 13th January 1627. Drawn up and signed in the Normandy port of Le Havre by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc and Urbain de Roissey, it launched a 'Company for the Islands' with Cardinal Richelieu as a major stakeholder.