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...

Last FHS issue of 2025! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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...

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...

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

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 www.eventbrite.com/e/frenchpres...

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...

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! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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...

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!

New issue of FHS! Forum: Framing Muslims in the Making of France, 1300–1800 read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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. read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

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!

Bonsoir à tous! I created a French/Francophone history Starter Pack (with some lit/culture France, Haiti && folks too) to help find people in the @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @jwsfh.bsky.social communities & nos collègues en France. If I forgot you, please 👋 go.bsky.app/Uf5.5iT

THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15! Apply to present in Paris this summer. It's not too late!

Do you have questions about Paris 2025? Here are a few answers: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

Thanks to the brilliant editing work of @rpanchasi.bsky.social, you can now watch this interview with Sara Rahnama on her vital new book The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change on Interwar Algeria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjkF...

Deadline is approaching! Apply to present in Paris this summer! Theme of the conference is RESISTANCE

French Historical Studies has a new curated issue on Reproductive Rights in France! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Join us in Paris! The submission platform is now LIVE. Apply by November 1, 2024 => www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

Join us in Paris! The submission platform is now LIVE. Apply by November 1, 2024 => www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

Read our Call for Papers (in English et en français) - The portal for submission of proposals will open on August 19, 2024 societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

Congratulations to Guy Erez (NYU) who won the Natalie Zemon Davis award!

Are you a graduate student? Did you present a paper at the latest SFHS conference at Hofstra University? Please apply by May 15!

It's happening this Sunday!

Join us on May 5 @ 3pm!

The William Koren, Jr. Prize goes to Lauren R. Clay for her article: “Liberty, Equality, Slavery: Debating the Slave Trade in Revolutionary France,” published in The American Historical Review 128, no. 1 (2023): 89-119. Congratulations! www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-...

SFHS invites submissions to the Natalie Zemon Davis Award www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

SFHS invites submissions to the Natalie Zemon Davis Award www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net

Prizes and Awards officially announced on our website! Click here for descriptions: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes

The David H. Pinkney Prize goes to Rachel Jean-Baptiste for Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, Citizenship. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. CONGRATULATIONS! societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/pinkney-prize

The new issue  of FHS is out! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

See you at the conference! And don't forget to register: www.sfhsconference.org

Join us later today!

Coming this Sunday! @sfhs.bsky.social will feature 5 grad students, talking about topics from Huguenot childhood to Iranian students in France to books & decolonization in Africa. Come hear what's NEW & support emerging scholars with encouragement & feedback! www.eventbrite.com/e/sfhs-frenc...