“The feminist revolution will be international, or it won’t be,” wrote the renowned Senegalese anthropologist and feminist Awa Thiam in her seminal 1978 book La parole aux…
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Fatoumata Seck, Pascale Barthélémy
Teddy Paikin
My dissertation examines the political economy of the French developmental state during the Second Empire by advancing a novel contextualist reading of the regime's official…
Thibaut Bagory
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) does not cease being a geometer. He does not end up leaving science definitively for religion, as often thought. On the contrary, less than two…
Pauline Bureau
In a context of escalating environmental pressures, a growing body of work has put forward paradigms and measures where economic growth is deprioritized, arguing that the…
Thomas Lalevée, The Australian National University, Canberra
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…
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…