Public credit, its uses and its perils, was the subject of intense debate among French reformers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While historians have…
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Thomas Lalevée, The Australian National University, Canberra
Rebecca Glasberg, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University
During my time as a France-Stanford Center Visiting Junior Scholar, I will conduct research for my book addressing the ways in which French-language Algerian literature…
Théo Besson, Université Paris Cité, Boulogne-Billancourt
This research project explores how tastes and preferences, primarily acquired over the course of life, are formed and modified. To study this, we focus on evaluative…
Mariana Calvo, Department of History, Stanford University
Mariana Calvo, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History Department, is currently pursuing a research project titled “Cables of Collaboration: How the Telegraph Remade the…
Gabrielle Hecht, Department of History, Stanford University, Véronique Yoboué, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Cathy Léal-Liousse, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse
Air pollution is the biggest single environmental cause of premature death worldwide, accounting for up to one million premature deaths on the African continent alone. Some…
Amaia Cabranes Rubio, Iberian and Latin American Studies, Sorbonne University
Whereas it has been widely agreed that maps are an essential source for historians, there is no doubt that cartographic representations also constitute a means and a medium…
William Parish, Department of History, Stanford University
My project, which I will conduct at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, explores historical questions at the intersection of…
Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, CUNY, New York
My current book project, Invisible Empires: Colonial Commodities, Capitalism, and the Making of the Modern French Self, 1750-1970…
Florence Lienhard, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris
The Homeric scholia to the Iliad …
Angélique Lemarchand, Nantes University, Nantes
Ancient philosophers significantly contributed to build a rational discourse on water, which in many ways is still in use today. This new approach would obviously stir…
Chloe Edmondson, Department of French and Italian, Stanford University
Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson specializes in the literature and history of early modern France. She holds the position of Acting Assistant Professor of French at Stanford…
Lloyd May, Department of Music, CCRMA, Stanford University
This project aims to improve accessibility for D/deaf and/or Disabled individuals in online media experiences by: (1) designing and…
Lydia Kamenoff, EHESS, Paris
Lydia Kamenoff’s doctoral thesis focuses on the history and memory of the Cossacks in France (1924-1945), an original and central theme…
Deniz Demir, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
France has a long history of political involvement in the Middle East, not only at the state level but also at the individual level. Furthermore, such socio-political…
Thomas Mullaney, Department of History, Stanford University, Fabien Simon, Université Paris Cité, Paris
The “Oriental impressions: Printing Oriental Languages between West and East, 16th-19th centuries” conference, to be held in Paris in December 2023, will bring together an…