Gustave Gimon Fellowship

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…

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…

Nicole Bauer, The University of Tulsa

By the French Revolution, the drive for transparency was a defining feature of the political culture. Conspiracies and the fear of conspiracies were common and…