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Last FHS issue of 2025!
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December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Last FHS issue of 2025!
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Check out our new curated issue on "What’s Old is New Again? The French Extreme Right from Dreyfus to Vichy and the Contemporary Authoritarian Impulse."
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What’s Old is New Again? The French Extreme Right from Dreyfus to Vichy and the Contemporary Authoritarian Impulse | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
We live in dangerous times. This is a sentence that I hoped never to have to write. It is neither a cliché nor a reference to history. The danger is immedi
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December 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Check out our new curated issue on "What’s Old is New Again? The French Extreme Right from Dreyfus to Vichy and the Contemporary Authoritarian Impulse."
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Recent PhDs, graduate students (and their supervisors): the Society for French Historical Studies will be awarding a number of grants. The deadline for these is January 1, 2026! Make sure to apply if you are eligible: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/awards-new-o...
Awards for New/ Ongoing Research — SFHS
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December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recent PhDs, graduate students (and their supervisors): the Society for French Historical Studies will be awarding a number of grants. The deadline for these is January 1, 2026! Make sure to apply if you are eligible: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/awards-new-o...
New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Philly 2025 - Deadline extended! The Society for French Historical Studies program committee has extended the proposal deadline to September 30. The original call for papers with the submission portal link can be found here =>
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September 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Philly 2025 - Deadline extended! The Society for French Historical Studies program committee has extended the proposal deadline to September 30. The original call for papers with the submission portal link can be found here =>
Throwback to the wonderful "Resist" conference that took place in Paris earlier this month. Thank you to everyone who participated!
July 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Throwback to the wonderful "Resist" conference that took place in Paris earlier this month. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Registration for the 2025 conference "Resistance/Résister" organized by The Global Consortium for French Historical Studies is now open. Have a look at our stunning program. We can't wait to see you in Paris in a few weeks! www.sfhsconference.org
Charles Bégué Fawell was just awarded the Koren Prize, which goes to the most outstanding article on any period of French history published the previous year by a scholar appointed at a college or university in the US or Canada. Congratulations Charles! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
May 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Charles Bégué Fawell was just awarded the Koren Prize, which goes to the most outstanding article on any period of French history published the previous year by a scholar appointed at a college or university in the US or Canada. Congratulations Charles! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
French Presse this Sunday at 3 pm! Sophie Heywood and Julie Fette discuss their two new books on publishing, children's access to reading, conceptions of childhood, and more
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Frenchpresse May 11: Heywood and Fette on Publishing Children's Literature
Sophie Heywood and Julie Fette discuss their two new books on publishing, children's access to reading, conceptions of childhood, and more.
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May 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
French Presse this Sunday at 3 pm! Sophie Heywood and Julie Fette discuss their two new books on publishing, children's access to reading, conceptions of childhood, and more
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A new curated collection is available from French Historical Studies, on Muslims, Gender, and the “French” Mediterranean, and edited by Naomi Davidson. Check it out!
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Muslims, Gender, and the “French” Mediterranean | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
With this curated issue, I invite us to consider how questions of gender have shaped the rich and growing historiography on Muslims, France, citizenship, e
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May 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A new curated collection is available from French Historical Studies, on Muslims, Gender, and the “French” Mediterranean, and edited by Naomi Davidson. Check it out!
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French Presse this Sunday, May 4! Laura Mason and Charles Walton will discuss Laura's latest book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals (Yale UP, 2022) - 3 pm EDT. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/frenchpres...
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
French Presse this Sunday, May 4! Laura Mason and Charles Walton will discuss Laura's latest book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals (Yale UP, 2022) - 3 pm EDT. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/frenchpres...
Charles Bégué Fawell's article, ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, was just awarded the 2025 article prize from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Warmest congratulations! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Effervescent Seas | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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April 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Charles Bégué Fawell's article, ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, was just awarded the 2025 article prize from the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Warmest congratulations! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
We are pleased to announce that the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize has been awarded to Elisa Camiscioli for Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Congratulations! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
March 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We are pleased to announce that the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize has been awarded to Elisa Camiscioli for Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Congratulations! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 David H. Pinkney Prize has been awarded to Jennifer N. Heuer for her book The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024! Congratulations! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
March 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 David H. Pinkney Prize has been awarded to Jennifer N. Heuer for her book The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024! Congratulations! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS
“Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World”
Please submit article manuscripts by August 15!
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“Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World”
Please submit article manuscripts by August 15!
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Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World”
What other histor...
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February 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS
“Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World”
Please submit article manuscripts by August 15!
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“Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World”
Please submit article manuscripts by August 15!
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The next French Presse event will take place on Sunday, February 16 at 3 pm EST. Tamara Chaplin will be discussing her new book, Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France (Tamara's interlocutor will be Andrew Ross) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
February 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The next French Presse event will take place on Sunday, February 16 at 3 pm EST. Tamara Chaplin will be discussing her new book, Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France (Tamara's interlocutor will be Andrew Ross) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Update on Paris 2025: We’re sending out personalized responses to your proposals at a rate of about 40 per day.
But do get in touch via the conference email if your funding depends on an immediate response.
But do get in touch via the conference email if your funding depends on an immediate response.
January 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Update on Paris 2025: We’re sending out personalized responses to your proposals at a rate of about 40 per day.
But do get in touch via the conference email if your funding depends on an immediate response.
But do get in touch via the conference email if your funding depends on an immediate response.
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Check out this new curated issue - "Atlantic Antecedents: Before the "Haitian Turn""- in FHS. Congratulations @drsepinwall.bsky.social! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Atlantic Antecedents: Before the “Haitian Turn” | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Historians of France sometimes refer to recent writings on colonial Saint-Domingue and on slavery as part of a new “colonial turn” in the field. However, U
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November 22, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Check out this new curated issue - "Atlantic Antecedents: Before the "Haitian Turn""- in FHS. Congratulations @drsepinwall.bsky.social! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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2024's SPECIAL FEATURE is the JWSFH MIXTAPE, a look back on the journal's/society's 50 yrs, with article picks & reflections from @sfhs.bsky.social Executive Director Tabetha Ewing & WSFH members @skmiles.bsky.social & Robin Walz. Don't miss the AMAZING artwork by @tgpeterson.bsky.social in the PDF!
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 PM
2024's SPECIAL FEATURE is the JWSFH MIXTAPE, a look back on the journal's/society's 50 yrs, with article picks & reflections from @sfhs.bsky.social Executive Director Tabetha Ewing & WSFH members @skmiles.bsky.social & Robin Walz. Don't miss the AMAZING artwork by @tgpeterson.bsky.social in the PDF!
New issue of FHS! Forum: Framing Muslims in the Making of France, 1300–1800
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Volume 47 Issue 4 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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December 7, 2024 at 2:15 PM
New issue of FHS! Forum: Framing Muslims in the Making of France, 1300–1800
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Check out this new curated issue - "Atlantic Antecedents: Before the "Haitian Turn""- in FHS. Congratulations @drsepinwall.bsky.social! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Atlantic Antecedents: Before the “Haitian Turn” | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Historians of France sometimes refer to recent writings on colonial Saint-Domingue and on slavery as part of a new “colonial turn” in the field. However, U
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November 22, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Check out this new curated issue - "Atlantic Antecedents: Before the "Haitian Turn""- in FHS. Congratulations @drsepinwall.bsky.social! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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My new virtual special issue of FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES @sfhs.bsky.social featuring CLASSIC ARTICLES ON 🇭🇹 & SLAVERY articles just dropped. #HaitianSky #FrenchHistory
ATLANTIC ANTECEDENTS: BEFORE THE ‘HAITIAN TURN’
All open access, 🙏 @dukepress.bsky.social.
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ATLANTIC ANTECEDENTS: BEFORE THE ‘HAITIAN TURN’
All open access, 🙏 @dukepress.bsky.social.
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Atlantic Antecedents: Before the “Haitian Turn” | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Historians of France sometimes refer to recent writings on colonial Saint-Domingue and on slavery as part of a new “colonial turn” in the field. However, U
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November 20, 2024 at 6:39 PM
My new virtual special issue of FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES @sfhs.bsky.social featuring CLASSIC ARTICLES ON 🇭🇹 & SLAVERY articles just dropped. #HaitianSky #FrenchHistory
ATLANTIC ANTECEDENTS: BEFORE THE ‘HAITIAN TURN’
All open access, 🙏 @dukepress.bsky.social.
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
ATLANTIC ANTECEDENTS: BEFORE THE ‘HAITIAN TURN’
All open access, 🙏 @dukepress.bsky.social.
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My new piece (pt I of what will drop next week)! Some scholars suggest that French historians' interest in Haiti & slavery is recent.
I went into the archives of @sfhs.bsky.social journal to find studies of empire + 🇭🇹 from the society's origin - & also highlight early 20thC work by AfAm scholars. ⬇️
I went into the archives of @sfhs.bsky.social journal to find studies of empire + 🇭🇹 from the society's origin - & also highlight early 20thC work by AfAm scholars. ⬇️
November 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM
My new piece (pt I of what will drop next week)! Some scholars suggest that French historians' interest in Haiti & slavery is recent.
I went into the archives of @sfhs.bsky.social journal to find studies of empire + 🇭🇹 from the society's origin - & also highlight early 20thC work by AfAm scholars. ⬇️
I went into the archives of @sfhs.bsky.social journal to find studies of empire + 🇭🇹 from the society's origin - & also highlight early 20thC work by AfAm scholars. ⬇️
The deadline is TODAY!
November 15, 2024 at 2:47 PM
The deadline is TODAY!
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Bonsoir à tous! I created a French/Francophone history Starter Pack (with some lit/culture France, Haiti && folks too) to help find people in the @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @jwsfh.bsky.social communities & nos collègues en France. If I forgot you, please 👋
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November 8, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Bonsoir à tous! I created a French/Francophone history Starter Pack (with some lit/culture France, Haiti && folks too) to help find people in the @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @jwsfh.bsky.social communities & nos collègues en France. If I forgot you, please 👋
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