Volume 49 Issue 1 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

The new issue of French Historical Studies is out!
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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!

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

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:
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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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Awards for New/ Ongoing Research — SFHS

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...

Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Philly 2026 of course!

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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 =>

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
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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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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...

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!
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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.

Check out this new curated issue - "Atlantic Antecedents: Before the "Haitian Turn""- in FHS. Congratulations @drsepinwall.bsky.social! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Text: Special Feature: JWSFH Mixtape 50th Anniversary Edition (black type on white image of cassette tape)

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!

Volume 47 Issue 4 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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...

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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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. ⬇️

The deadline is TODAY!