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ACTIVITIES French Historical Studies (SFHS Journal, site at University of South Carolina) GOVERNANCE
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The David Pinkney Prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book on French history published by a North American scholar. 2015 John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter, A World of Paper: Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State (McGill-Queens, 2014) 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 Benjamin Claude Brower, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin, for A DESERT NAMED PEACE: THE VIOLENCE OF FRANCE'S EMPIRE IN THE ALGERIAN SAHARA, 1844-1902 (Columbia University Press, 2009). 2008 Jennifer Popiel, Assistant Professor of HIstory, St. Louis University, for Rousseau's Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France University of New Hampshire Press, 2008. 2007 Prof. Carol Symes, Dept. of History, University of Illinois, for A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2007). 2006 Hans J. Hummer, Wayne State University for Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Gregory Mann, Columbia University, for Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006). 2005 Jan Goldstein, Dept of History, University of Chicago, for The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and the Psyche in France, 1750-1850 (Harvard University Press). 2004 Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University, for A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 2003 Ronald Schechter, College of William and Mary, for Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Honorable
Mention: 2002 Paul Friedland, Bowdoin College, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2002) 2001 Frederic L. Cheyette, Emengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell University Press, 2001) 2000 Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France (Cambridge University Press, 2000) 1999 Ruth Harris, Lourdes: Body and Spirit in a Secular Age (New York: Viking, 1999). 1998 John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de doléances of 1789 (Stanford University Press, 1998) 1997 Thomas Brennan, Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997). 1996 John Markoff, The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) 1995 Laura Lee Downs, Manufacturing Inequality: gender division in the French and British metalworking industries, 1914-1939 (Cornell University Press, 1995) 1994 David Bell (Yale University), Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France (Oxford University Press, 1994) 1993 Sarah Maza (Northwestern University), Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Prerevolutionary France (University of California Press, 1993) Lester Little (Smith College), Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (Cornell University Press) 1991 and 1992 Raymond Grew and Patrick Harrigan, Schools, State, and Society (University of Michigan Press, 1991) 1989 and 1990 Jo Burr Margandant, Madame Le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic (Princeton University Press, 1990) Elizabeth Rapley, The Devotées: Women and Church in Seventeenth Century France (Queen's University Press, 1990) Honorable
Mention: 1987 and 1988 Robert M. Schwartz, Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France (University of North Carolina Press, 1988) Honorable
Mention: The Gilbert Chinard Prize is an annual award made jointly by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français de Washington for the best book on the history of themes shared by France and the Americas. 2015 Michael Kwass [Johns Hopkins University], Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground (Harvard, 2014) 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Rachel Hope Cleves, Assistant Professor of History, University of Victoria, for THE REIGN OF TERROR IN AMERICA: VISIONS OF VIOLENCE FROM ANTI-JACOBINISM TO ANTISLAVERY (Cambridge University Press, 2009). 2009 Neil Safier, Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia, for Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America University of Chicago Press, 2008 2008 Prof. Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 2007 John Garrigus, University of Texas-Arlington, for Before Haiti Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). 2006 Stacy Schiff, for A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Brith of America (Henry Holt and Co.). 2005 Allan Greer, University of Toronto, for Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 2004 Brent Hayes Edwards, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003). 2003 Mark Hulliung, Brandeis University, Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2002). 2002 Irwin M. Wall, University of California, Riverside, France, the United States, and the Algerian War (Univ. of California Press, 2001) 2001 Jacques Portes, Université de Paris VIII, Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914. Translated by Elborg Forster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). 2000 Samuel Scott, History Department, Wayne State University, From Yorktown to Valmy (University of Colorado Press, 1999) . 1999 Philip Katz, N.Y. Council for the Humanities, From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune (Harvard University Press, 1998). 1998 Nancy Green, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Ready to Wear, Ready to Work: A Century of Industrialization and Immigration in New York and Paris 1997 Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Culture and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (UNC Press, 1996). 1996 Laura Meixner, Cornell University, French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society, 1856-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). 1995 Elisa C. Klaus, Every Child a Lion: The Origins of maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890-1920 (Cornell University Press, 1993). 1994 No prize awarded 1993 Richard Kuisel, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (Universtiy of California Press, 1993). 1992 No prize awarded 1991 Irwin M. Wall, University of California-Riverside, The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 (Cambridge University Press, 1991). 1990 No prize awarded 1989 Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University, Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism (Harvard University Press, 1988). 1988 No prize awarded 1987 Robert S. Weddle, Editor, La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf: Three Primary Documents (Texas A&M University Press, 1987). 1986 Carl J. Ekberg, Illinois State University, Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier (Patrice Press, 1985). 1985 James Axtell, College of William and Mary, The Invasion Within: The Contect of Cultures in Colonial North America (Oxford University Press, 1985). 1984 Patricia Kay Galloway, Mississippi Department Archives, Editor for volumes IV and V of Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, 1729-1748, 1749-1763 (LSU Press, 1984). 1983 Jon Butler, Yale, The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (Harvard University Press, 1983) 1982 Orville T. Murphy, State University of New York at Buffalo, Charles Fravier, Comte de Vergennes: French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787 (State University of New York Press, 1982). 1981 John G. Reid, Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland: Marginal Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 1981). 1980 James H. Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution, (University of Kentucky Press) G.C. Incentive Prize: Robert R. Crout, "The Diplomacy of Trade: The Influence of Commercial Considerations on French Involvement in the Anglo-American War of Independence, 1775-1778" (dissertation). 1979 Stanley J. Idzerda, Editor-in-chief of the Lafayette Papers, Cornell University Library, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790 (Cornell University Press, 1983). G.C. Incentive Prize: Edward Angel, "James Monroe's Mission to Paris, 1794-1796" (dissertation). 1978 Jay Higginbotham, Local History Section of the Mobile Public Library, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977). G.C. Incentive Prize: Thomas A. Sancton, Oxford University, "Red, White, and Blue: A Study of the American Image in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871." 1977 Lee Kennett, University of Georgia, The French Forces in America 1780-1783 (Greenwood Press, 1977). 1976 No prize awarded Honorable Mention: Howard C. Rice, Thomas Jefferson's Paris (Princeton University Press, 1976). 1975 Jonathan A. Dull, University of Texas, The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787 (Princeton University Press, 1976). Stephen A. Schuker, Cambridge, Massachusettes, The End of French Dominance in Europe (UNC Press) Honorable Mention:
Henry Blumenthal, Rutgers University, American and French Culture, 1800 to 1900:
Interchanges of Arts, Science, Literature, and Society (LSU Press, 1976). 1974 Albert Hall Bowman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Struggle for Neutrality: Franco-American Diplomacy in the Federalist Era (University of Tennessee Press, 1974). G.C. Incentive Prize: Melvin B. Leffler, Vanderbilt University, "The Struggle for Stability: America Policy toward France, 1921-1933." 1973 William J. Eccles, University of Toronto, France in America (Harper & Row, 1972). Jacob Price, University of Michigan, France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1574-1791, and Its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades (University of Michigan Press, 1973, 2 vols). G.C. Incentive Prize: James T. Schlefer, College of New Rochelle, "The Making of Tocqueville's American (manuscript). 1972 Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown, The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1780-1783 (Princetown University Press and Brown University Press). 1971 Nancy Nichols Barker, The French Legation in Texas (Texas State Historical Association, 2 vols). 1970 Laura V. Monti, chair of special collections section of University of Florida library, to support the publication of a detailed inventory of the Rochambeau Papers. 1969 No prize awarded 1968 Daniel Carroll, Villanova University, "Henri Mercier's Diplomatic Mission to Washington" (manuscript, subsequently published as Henri Mercier and the American Civil War). 1967 William C. Stinchcombe, Syracuse University, "French-American Alliance in American Politics, 1778-1783" (manuscript, subsequently published as The American Revolution and the French Alliance). This prize of $1,000 is awarded to the outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar in an American, European, or Canadian journal during 2008. The committee will seek out the entries and announce the recipient of the award at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies. 2015 Jennifer Edwards [Manhattan College], "My Sister for Abbess: Fifteenth-Century Disputes over the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers," Journal of Medieval History 40 no. 1 (2014): 85-107 2014 2013 2012 Prof. Thomas Dodman,
Department of History, George Mason University, for “Un pays pour la
colonie: Mourir de nostalgie en Algérie française, 1830-1880,” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales no. 3 (Sept. 2011): 743-84. 2011
Rafe Blaufarb, Professor of History, Florida State University, for 2010 Michel de Waele,
Professor of History, Universite Laval, Quebec, for "'Paris est libre,'
Entries as Reconciliations: From Charles VII to Charles de Gaulle," FRENCH HISTORY 23.4 (December 2009): 425-45. Honorable Mention:
Christopher Hodson, Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young
University, for "Colonizing the Patrie: An Experiment Gone Wrong in Old
Regime France," FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES 32.2 (Spring 2009): 193-222. 2009 Caroline Ford, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles, for "Reforestation, Landscape Conservation, and the Anxieties of Empire in French Colonial Algeria," American Historical Review 113.2 (April 2008): 341-62 Honorable Mention Dan Edelstein, Dept. of French, Stanford University, for "War and Terror" The Law of Nations from Grotius to the French Revolution," French Historical Studies 31.2 (Spring 2008): 229-62 2008 Prof. Lenard Berlanstein, Dept. of History, University of Virginia, for “Selling Modern Feminity: Femina, a Forgotten Feminist Publishing Success in Belle Epoque France,” French Historical Studies 30 (2007), 623-49. Allan Tulchin, "Same-sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Use of the Affrèrement," Journal of Modern History 79.3 (September 2007): 613-47 2007 Natalie Lozovsky, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California for “Roman Geography and Ethnography in the Carolingian Empire,” Speculum 81 (2006), 325-364. 2006 Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa, for "The Book that Never Was: Montesquieu's 'Considerations on the Romans' in Historical Context," The History of Political Thought 26, no. 1 (Spring 2005): pp. 43-89. 2005 Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico, for "Putting History to Use: Three Crusade Chronicles in Context," Viator 35 (2004): pp. 131-168. Honorable Mention goes to Neil Safier, Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, for "'To Collect and Abridge& Without Changing Anything Essential:' Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi," Book History 7 (2004): 63-96. 2004 Richard I. Jobs, (Pacific University, Forest Grove, for "Tarzan under Attack: Youth, Comics, and Cultural Reconstruction in Postwar France," French Historical Studies 26:4 (Fall 2003): 687-725. Honorable Mention: Jolle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, for "The Politics of Body Parts: Contested Topographies in Late-Medieval Avignon," Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 78:1 (2003): 66-98. 2003 Patricia Lorcin, Texas Tech University, "Rome and France in Africa: Recovering Colonial Algeria's Latin Past," French Historical Studies 25 (Spring 2002): 295-330. Honorable Mention: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, "L'ortografe des dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime," French Historical Studies 25 (Spring 2002): 191-224. 2002 Jotham Parsons, "Money and Sovereignty in Early Modern France." Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (no. 1, January 2001): 59-79. 2001 Stéphane Gerson, "Town, Nation, or Humanity? Festival Delineation of Place and Past in Northern France, ca. 1825-65," Journal of Modern History 72 (September 2000): 628-82. Distinguished designation to Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, "Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept," American Historical Review, 105 (5). 2000 Suzanne Desan, "Reconstituting the Social after the Terror: Family, Property, and Law in Popular Politics," Past and Present no. 164 (August 1999): 81-121. Distingished designation to Jo Burr Margadant, "Gender, Vice and the Political Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century France: Reinterpreting the Failure of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848", American Historical Review, 1999. 1999 Alice Conklin, "Colonialism and Human Rights: The French Case in West Africa," American Historical Review 103:2 (1998). Distinguished designation to Michael Kwass, "A Kingdom of Taxpayers: State Formation, Privilege, and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century France," The Journal of Modern History 70 (June 1998): 295-339. 1998 Daniel Lord Smail, "Telling Tales in Angevin Courts," French Historical Studies 20 (Spring 1997): 183-215. 1997 Bonnie Smith, "History and Genius: The Narcotic, Erotic, and Baroque Life of Germaine de Stael," French Historical Studies 19 (Fall, 1996): 1059-1081. 1996 Elizabeth Rapley, "The Shaping of Things to Come: The Commission des Secours, 1727-1788," French History 8:4 (1994):420-442. 1995 Harry Liebersohn, "Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso, and Romantic Travel Writing," American Historical Review 99 (1994):746-766. 1994 Liana Vardi, "Constructing the Harvest: Gleaners, Farmers, and Officials in Early Modern France," American Historical Review (1993). 1993 Judith Miller, "Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises: Bakers, Police, and Parlements in France, 1750-1793," Journal of Modern History 64:2 (1992). 1992 C. Stephen Jaeger, "L'Amour des rois: structure sociale d'une forme de sensibilité aristocratique," Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 46 (1991). Honorable Mention: Gay Gullickson, "Le Pétroleuse: Representing Revolution," Feminist Studies 17 (1991). 1991 Carla Hesse, "Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793," Representations 30 (1990). 1990 Sarah Hanley, "Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France," French Historical Studies 16:1 (1989). 1989 Ruth Harris, "Melodrama, Hysteria, and Feminine Crimes of Passion in the Fin de Siecle," History Workshop 25 (1988): 31-63. Honorable Mention: William Sewell, "Uneven Development, the Autonomy of Politics, and the Dockworkers of Nineteenth-Century Marseille," American Historical Review 93 (1988): 604-637. 1988 J. Russell Major "`Bastard Feudalism' and the Kiss: Changing Social Mores in Late Medieval and Early Modern France," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17:3 (1987). Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "Social Change and Literary Language: The Textualization of the Past in 13th-century Old French Historiography," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17 (1987, no. 2): 129-148. 1987 Nancy Fitch, "Les petits parisiens en province: the Silent Revolution in the Allier, 1860-1900," Journal of Family History 11 (1986). The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offer an annual award of $2,000 for research conducted outside North America on any aspect of the history of France. This award is granted to an outstanding American or Canadian scholar who has received the doctorate in history in the five-year period prior to the award (since January 2004 for the 2009 award.) The award must be spent no more than one year after the fellowship is awarded. In no more than two pages (single-spaced), the applicant should outline the nature and scope of the project and the archives and libraries to be consulted. The applicant must submit three copies of the proposal and a curriculum vitae. In addition, the applicant must send or have sent two confidential letters of recommendation supporting the proposal. The deadline is 1 February 2009. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies. Please send applications and direct inquiries to the chair of the committee. 2015 Laurie M. Wood [Florida State University] for book project “Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire” 2014 2013 2012 Dr.
Alexia Yates, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Center
for History and Economics, Harvard University, for the project “Selling
Paris: Real Estate and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle
Metropolis” 2011
Christina Firpo, Assistant Professor of History, California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo, for “’Abandoned Children’: The
Crises of Racial Patriarchy and the Forcible Removal of Mixed-Race
Children in Colonial Indochina, 1890-1956” 2010 Jennifer
Palmer, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, for project, "An
Ocean between Them: Race, Gender and the Family in France and Its
Colonies." 2009 Jonathyne Briggs, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Northwest, for "Anarchie en France: Hypermodernity and French Popular Music, 1958-1981" 2008 Claire
Salinas, Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College, for 2007 Junko Tankeda, Syracuse University, for “Between France and the Mediterranean: Absolutism and Commercial Humanism in Marseille, 1660-1720.” 2006 Rebecca Pulju, Kent State University, for "The Woman's Paradise: Gender and Consumer Culture in France, 1944-1965." 2005 Sara Beam, University of Victoria, for "The Body of the Criminal in Europe, 1500 - 1750." 2004 Richard Keyser, assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University, for "From Gift to Contract: The Transformation of Medieval Property Dealings, Champagne 1100-1350." 2003 Richard C. Keller, assistant professor of medical history and history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Developing Madness: The Psychiatrist's Civilizing Mission in French North Africa, 1900-1962" 2002 Sean Kennedy (University of New Brunswick) for his project entitled "The Croix de Few and the Parti Social Français in Algeria." 2001 Nancy Locklin, Assistant Professor, Maryville College (TN). Ph.D, Emory University. Project: "Women in Early Modern Brittany: Rethinking Work and Identity in a Traditional Economy" 2000 Patrick R. Young, Fordham University, "The Consumer as National Subject: Bourgeois Tourism in the French Third Republic, 1880-1914" 1999 Michael Lynn, "Popular Science in the French Enlightenment: The Dissemination of Natural Philosophy and the Creation of an Urban Scientific Culture" 1998 Nancy Edwards, lecturer Bowdoin College, for her project, "Regendering the Nation: the Role of the Housewife in French Indentity Formation from 1918 to Vichy" (Dissertation at UC Berkeley) 1997 Mathew S. Kuefler, Rice University. JOHN B. AND THETA H. WOLF TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP (No longer active as of 2016) The John B. and Theta H. Wolf Travel Fellowship is a memorial to John B. Wolf, distinguished historian and teacher and onetime president of the Society for French Historical Studies, and to his wife, Theta H. Wolf, professor of psychology and author of the well-received biography of Alfred Binet, a French pioneer in the development of IQ tests. Fully as significant as their scholarly achievements were the warm hospitality, advice, and encouragement John and Theta Wolf provided to countless graduate students over the course of five decades. Their generous bequest makes possible an award of $2,000 to be given annually to a doctoral student at a university in the United States or Canada for dissertation research in French history (any period) that reflects the Wolfs' interest in and contributions to the study of European history. The award is administered by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies. 2015 Noah Ziggy Gentile [Yale University] for “Napoleon and the Timelines of Modernity” 2014 Ralph Patrello (University of Florida) for "Social Transformation in Southern Gaul, 400-600" 2013 Katherine Godwin, University of Illinois, for research on 2012 Terrence Peterson,
Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for the project
“Pacifying the Muslim Body: The French Military and Social Engineering
in the Algerian War” 2011
Lauren Mancia, doctoral candidate, Yale University, for “John of
Fécamp, Spirituality in the Eleventh Century, and the Origins of a
Devotion to a Human God” 2010 Nimisha Barton, Graduate student, Princeton University, for "Immigrant Communities of Paris: Gender and Acculturation in 2009 Carolyn Purnell, graduate student, University of Chicago, for "Refining the Body: Sensory Experimentation in the French Enlightenment" Honorable mention to Jamie Wadowiec, graduate student, SUNY Binghamton, for "The Afterlives of Empire: Immigration and the Politics of Difference in Decolonized France, 1962-1974) 2008 Ethan
Katz, PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin, for 2007 Jeannette E. Miller, Ph.D. candidate, The Pennsylvania State University, for “The French State’s Policies toward the Harkis from the End of the Algerian War to the Present: Shifts, Stagnations, and Contradictions.” 2006 Edward Kolla, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University 2005 Cynthia Kreisel, Rutgers University, for "Breaking the Silence between War and Revolution: French Women's Sexuality and the Morés of Daily Life, 1953 - 1967." 2004 Camille Robcis, Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, for "Rethinking the Family: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, and the Problem of Kinship in France." 2003 Benjamin Kafka, Stanford University, "The Imaginary State: Paperwork and Political Thought in France, 1789-1860." 2002 Andrew Jainchill, UC Berkeley, "Republicanism and the Origins of French Liberalism, 1794-1817." 2001 Ronald Hass, Rice University, "Maoism in French Politics During the 1960s and 1970s." 2000 Nicole Herz, University of Virginia, University of Virginia "A Social and Cultural History of Photography in Lille, France (1839-1914)." 1999 Tracy Neal Leavalle, Arizona State University, "Religion, Encounter, and Community in French and Indian North America." 1998 Paul Schue, University of California, Irvine, "And all their Heros Spoke Spanish: Conceptions of Spanish Civil War Heroism in Contemporary France." MARJORIE M. and LANCELOT L. FARRAR MEMORIAL AWARDSThe Farrar fellowships honor Marjorie M. Farrar and Lancelot L. Farrar. Marjorie M. Farrar, esteemed historyian of modern France, was the author of books on the political career of Alexadre Millerand and on the strategy, politics, and diplomacy of the French blockade, 1914-1918. Lancelot L. Farrar, esteemed historian of modern Europe, was the author of books on the foreign and domestic policies of Germany and other European nations during World War I. The generous donations of the Farrars' family, friends, and colleagues make possible two awards of $2500 each for doctoral students in French history at North American universities to support work on outstanding dissertations projects in progress. In selecting the winner of ONE of the TWO awards, the awards committee will give strong preference to studies that relate French history to that of another European country or part of the world. The awards are administered by the Society for French Historical Studies and announced at the Society's annual meeting. 2015 Joanna Fiduccia for her dissertation project, “Hollow Man: Alberto Giacometti and the Crisis of the Monument, 1935-1946” Étienne Stockland for his dissertation, “The Insect Wars: Practical Entomology and Agricultural Improvement in Enlightenment France (1750-1815)” 2014 Robert Isaacson (George Washington University) for "Alliance and Ideology: French-Israeli Relations, 1945-1968" Elise Franklin (Boston College) for "Associational Life, Social Aid, and Decolonization: France and Algeria (1954-1973)" 2013 Alexander Bevilacqua, Princeton University, for research on
Christina Carroll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for research on 2012 Stephanie
McBride-Schreiner, Graduate Student, Arizona State University, for the
project “Medicalizing Childhood: The Convergence of Medicine, Public
Health, and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France and Great
Britain” 2011
Elena Napolitano, doctoral candidate, University of Toronto, for “Come
una Cittadella: Urban Strategy and the Vision of French Nationhood in
Rome, 1660-1700” Jessie Hewitt,
doctoral candidate, University of California at Davis, for
“Domesticating Madness: Psychiatric Authority and Familial Order in
Nineteenth-Century France” 2010 Katie Jarvis, Graduate student, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for "Political Poissardes: The Popular Activism 2009 Micah Alpaugh, graduate student, University of California, Irvine, for "The Emergence of the Parisian Political Demonstration: Developing Nonviolent Protest in the French Revolution, 1787-1795" Honorable mention to Venus Bivar, graduate student, University of Chicago, for "The Ground Beneath Their Feet: Agricultural Industrialization and the Politics of Remapping Rural France, 1954-1973" 2008 Joy Crosby, PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, for "Theological Space and Making Belief: The King, the Church and the Theater in Seventeenth-Century France." 2007 Thomas Dodman, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, for “Nostalgia as Alienation in Post-Revolutionary France.” 2006 Brigitte Jelen, Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Irvine for "Culturally Different: Immigrant In/Visibility in Post-Colonial France." 2005 Katrin Sjursen, Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara for "'The Heart of a Man and a Lion': Northern French Noblewomen as Medieval Military Commanders." 2004 William Max Nelson, Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, for "The Weapon of Time: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year I." 2003 Charly Coleman, Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, for "Dispossession and Subjectivity: The Self in Enlightenment and Illuminism in Eighteenth-Century France." 2002 Nicole Rudolph, Ph.D candidate at Institute for French Studies, NYU, for "At Home in Postwar France. The Design and Construction of Domestic Space, 1945-1975." THE NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD Awarded for outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the SFHS annual meeting. 2009 Alexia Yates, University of Chicago, for "The Business of Housing: Real Estate in Turn-of-the Century Paris." 2010 Marie-Eve Chagnon,
Concordia University, “L’internationalisme scientifique face à la
Grande Guerre : la rupture des relations de la science française et
allemande (1914-1919)" 2011 James Naus, Saint Louis University, for "Dynastic Legitimization in 2012 2014 2016
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