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Sara Black
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I am a historian of medicine in modern France. My research focuses on the normalization of drugs like opium, cocaine, and hashish in French medical practice. https://www.saraeblack.com/
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Grinnell College is hiring a TT-Asst Prof (ABD welcome) in Francophone Caribbean! Esp interested in ecocriticism, film/media studies, gender/sex, or theatre and performance studies

Exp work in Creole is a +++

Applications due Oct 15th!! apply.interfolio.com/148246
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June 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Virginia friends: I will be giving a lecture on my book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century at a brewery in Richmond tonight. If you like beer and are interested in the history of drugs and medicine, come check it out! profsandpints.ticketleap.com/opioids/
Profs & Pints Richmond: Pain Relief's Reckless Pioneers
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “Pain Relief’s Reckless Pioneers,” a look at how self-medicating 19th century physicians changed attitudes toward suffering and laid the foundations for today's glo…
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June 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Virginia friends! I will be giving a lecture on my book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century at a brewery in Richmond on June 26. If you like beer and are interested in the history of drugs and medicine, come check it out! profsandpints.ticketleap.com/opioids/
Profs & Pints Richmond: Pain Relief's Reckless Pioneers
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “Pain Relief’s Reckless Pioneers,” a look at how self-medicating 19th century physicians changed attitudes toward suffering and laid the foundations for today's glo…
profsandpints.ticketleap.com
June 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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🗃️Deadline extended for the JWH Best Doctoral Student Research Paper in the history of women, gender, and sexualities!!! Submit papers electronically by Friday, June 28, 2024, to Jennifer Nelson, chair: jennifer_nelson@redlands.edu. See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for eligibility.
Announcements – journal of women’s history
jwomenshistory.org
May 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Gave a short radio interview about my book Drugging France, last week on With Good Reason! You can check it out here: www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/drug...
Drugging France - With Good Reason
Addiction isn't a one-size-fits-all disease. Women experience it differently than men.
www.withgoodreasonradio.org
May 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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My New Books in French Studies interview with @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social
re: THE RED WIDOW is online, enfin.

Huge thanks to Sarah for this conversation - a pure delight! Listen…

newbooksnetwork.com/the-red-widow
Sarah Horowitz,
newbooksnetwork.com
April 6, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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'French History' is inviting contributions to a special issue on 'Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories'.
Initial proposals due July 2024.

'French History' invite des contributions pour un dossier spécial: propositions initiales, Juillet 2024.

academic.oup.com/fh/pages/cal...

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Call for Papers: Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories
Historical research has changed in the age of big data. Thanks to the labour of archivists, librarians, and other researchers to catalogue, digitize and analyse
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March 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Join us on May 5 @ 3pm!
April 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
November 1, 2023 at 12:44 PM
I am going to be discussing my book, Drugging France, this Sunday with the wonderful Hannah Frydman. If you are interested in drug history, please join us! @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social
Sunday Nov 5, 3 pm EST French Presse: TWO prize-winning historians: Sara Black and Hannah Frydman will be talking about Sara's book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
November 1, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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Congratulations Hannah!
October 25, 2023 at 9:04 AM
I am delighted to announce that Drugging France
won the J. Russell Major Prize from the AHA! Thank you so much to Bonnie Smith and to all of my friends and colleagues who provided feedback and advice over the years. I am so grateful for your support! @ahahistorians.bsky.social
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2023 awardees! 🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2023 Prize Winners
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes.
www.historians.org
October 24, 2023 at 11:44 PM
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The program for #AHA24 is available to browse! This year’s annual meeting will feature more than 450 sessions and over 60 posters. 🗃️
AHA24 Program
Presenting opportunities for connecting, a hub of scholarship, resources for educators, career development, and local history
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October 5, 2023 at 3:37 PM
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This fantastic collection of bibliographic essays is not just a narrative guide to scholarship about past epidemics but a collective reckoning with the limitations of #histmed #histsci in the face of a pandemic.

All #openaccess and highly recommended.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202...
October 2, 2023 at 9:41 AM
Excited to be in the other place! Thanks for the invite @rebeccapscales.bsky.social !
October 6, 2023 at 1:49 AM