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New FHS curated issue on Incarceration and Race. Read the articles here: #skystorians read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Incarceration and Race | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
This curated collection presents an opportunity to showcase French Historical Studies articles that treat questions of race and incarceration in French his
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Suzanne K. Kaufman “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisa.” FHS 46 no 3 (2025) has won the FCHS article prize. CONGRATULATIONS! #historians #skystorians read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Article Prize: Suzanne Kaufman, “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, & the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia.” Honorable Mention: Wallace Teska, "Arbitrating Abolition: Women's Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907."
Got the new issue of @sfhs.bsky.social in the mail today. Very excited for these articles on the theme of incarceration.
Disappointed to learn of the cancellation of this Fall’s @thewsfh.bsky.social conference in Memphis, TN. Sending my respect & gratitude to the Society’s officers & local organizers for all their efforts Hope to see many of you at the @sfhs.bsky.social here in PDX next April. And in Memphis in 2030!
The new issue of French Historical Studies is out! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Volume 49 Issue 1 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes and Awards. Congratulations to all!
This year's David Pinkney Prize goes to Miranda Spieler for Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Congratulations!
Our next French Presse is this Sunday at 3pm ET! Join Alice Conklin and Dan Sherman in conversation about Dan's new book Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 2025). Register at Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/french-pre...
French Presse: Dan Sherman and Alice Conklin on Sensations!
Alice Conklin in conversation with Dan Sherman about his book Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940
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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." read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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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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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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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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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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
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 www.eventbrite.com/e/frenchpres...
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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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! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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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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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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...
FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS “Children and Childhood in the French-Speaking World” Please submit article manuscripts by August 15! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
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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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.
