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Founded in 1954, the Society for French Historical Studies promotes scholarship focused on the history of France from the medieval era to the twenty-first century. The Society also champions research into history beyond France itself, to include the hexagon’s historical relationships with the rest of the world, including North America, Africa, and Asia, as well as other societies on the European continent.
The SFHS is very proud to publish the quarterly, French Historical Studies, long recognized internationally as one of the premier journals in the discipline of history.
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The annual meetings hosted by the SFHS have been particularly important venues for the dissemination of the highest quality research on French history in both English and French, and have offered countless opportunities for productive interchange and collaboration among scholars from the United States and Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and beyond.
Society for French Historical Studies
Invites submissions to the
Deadline: May 15, 2024
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The Society for French Historical Studies confers the Natalie Zemon Davis Award on the best paper presented at the annual meeting of SFHS at Hofstra University by a graduate student enrolled in a doctoral program in the United States or Canada. The award honors Professor Natalie Zemon Davis for her outstanding work as a mentor of graduate students and was established through donations from students and colleagues of Professor Davis and from other members of SFHS.
Submissions should not exceed 14 pages, should be double-spaced, and must include all appropriate citation and bibliographical information. Please send your paper as a Microsoft Word or PDF attachment to the chair of the committee on or before May 15, 2024.
Please submit your paper to the 2024 chair of the SFHS Prizes & Awards Committee, Rachel Gillett (r.a.gillett@uu.nl) and for administrative purposes, please copy Tabetha Ewing (sfhsexecdir@gmail.com)
2024 PRIZES & AWARDS ANNOUNCED!
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The David H. Pinkney Prize
Winner: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, Citizenship. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention: H.B. Callaway, The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.
The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize
Winner: Katlyn Marie Carter, Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.
Honorable mention: Sara E. Johnson, Encyclopédie noire : The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World. The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
The William Koren Jr. Prize
Winner: Lauren R. Clay, “Liberty, Equality, Slavery: Debating the Slave Trade in Revolutionary France,” The American Historical Review 128, no. 1 (2023): 89-119.
Honorable Mention: Brett Bowles, “Fragmentary, Censored, Indispensable: The Audiovisual Archive of October 17, 1961,” French Historical Studies 46, no. 2 (2023): 177-212.
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey S. Ravel, "On the Playing Cards of the Dulac Brothers in the Year II," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 52, no. 1 (2023): 325-367.
The Farrar Memorial Awards
Winner: Olivia Cocking, "Droits assurés, droits bafoués: Race, Nationality, and the Right to Living Well in France After Empire."
Winner: Richard Todd Yoder, “Unorthodox Flesh: Gender, Religious Convulsions, and Charismatic Knowledge in Early Modern France”
The Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowships
Winner, Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship: Jillian Kruse, “Printing Utopia: Experimentation, Collaboration, and Anarchy in the Prints of Camille Pissarro”
Winner, Catherine Maley Fellowship: Chanelle Dupuis. “Loss of smell: Absence and Extinction in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature”
The Laurie M. Wood Research Travel Award
Winner: Merve Fejzula, “Negritude and the Afro-Black Public Sphere 1947-77”
The Natalie Zemon Davis Award
Winner: Patrick Travens, “Jacobinism, Commerce, and Empire in Revolutionary Bordeaux.” (2023 SFHS-WSFH Detroit conference paper)
Society for French Historical Studies Defends Tenure
On January 12, 2023, Manhattan College terminated twenty-three faculty members, many of whom hold tenure, including two historians. Among the historians is Dr. Jeff Horn, Co-President of the Society for French Historical Studies. In Jeff’s case, this termination comes after more than two decades of committed service to the institution and its students. Many of you know Jeff as a highly accomplished, widely published historian of the French Revolution. His presidency of the SFHS is just one example of his generosity to the historical profession and to the field of French history, more specifically. This dismissal is, in academic terms, summary. The faculty members will be unemployed as of June 15, 2024. The college cites financial duress. However, without much more transparency about the process for deciding which departments and faculty members were targeted to be let go, the extreme solution of breaking tenure contracts cannot be justified. In fact, the nature of the trust between faculty member and institution on the matter of tenure is such that it should never be broken without the institution making every effort to retain the faculty member through the crisis or, in the worst case, support them in finding new employment or in re-professionalization and in a timely transition that respects the academic job calendar. These are ethical considerations. There are legal guidelines spelled out in the Manhattan College faculty handbook, especially around this short timeframe and severance package, which the college has disregarded. Manhattan College is attempting to censor the affected faculty from speaking “disparagingly” about the college in exchange for a minimal severance package. We wish to express our unwavering support for Jeff and our colleagues at Manhattan College.
Many of you have asked how you might offer material support for our colleagues as they negotiate with Manhattan College to reestablish their contract or establish fair severance. Jeff has shared this link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-defend-tenure-at-manhattan-college
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