French Colonial Historical Society
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New Book Alert: "Conquest and Resistance in West Africa" by Ruth Ginio (Manchester University Press, 2025)
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September 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
New Book Alert: "Conquest and Resistance in West Africa" by Ruth Ginio (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Use code "EVENT30" at checkout for 30% off
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All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
July 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
July 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
July 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
July 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
All of us at FCHS are delighted to announce this year’s slate of our annual prize winners:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Nous sommes tous ravis, à la SHCF, d'annoncer la liste des lauréats de nos prix annuels de cette année:
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Shorrock Awards:
Felicitations aux lauréats des 2025 Shorrock Awards:
Yannick Etoundi (Brown University), Patrick Travens (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Dieu Ly Hoang (Technische Universität Berlin), and Alexander Young (Johns Hopkins University)
Felicitations aux lauréats des 2025 Shorrock Awards:
Yannick Etoundi (Brown University), Patrick Travens (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Dieu Ly Hoang (Technische Universität Berlin), and Alexander Young (Johns Hopkins University)
June 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Shorrock Awards:
Felicitations aux lauréats des 2025 Shorrock Awards:
Yannick Etoundi (Brown University), Patrick Travens (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Dieu Ly Hoang (Technische Universität Berlin), and Alexander Young (Johns Hopkins University)
Felicitations aux lauréats des 2025 Shorrock Awards:
Yannick Etoundi (Brown University), Patrick Travens (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Dieu Ly Hoang (Technische Universität Berlin), and Alexander Young (Johns Hopkins University)
🎉🥳👏🏽A huge congrats to Sara E. Johnson whose _Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World_ won the 2024 J. Russell Major prize for the best book in French History from the AHA 🗃️🎉🥳👏🏽
October 21, 2024 at 5:20 PM
🎉🥳👏🏽A huge congrats to Sara E. Johnson whose _Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World_ won the 2024 J. Russell Major prize for the best book in French History from the AHA 🗃️🎉🥳👏🏽
🗃️🚨Appel: 2025 Congrès annuel: "Représentations de l’Empire : art, musées, expositions internationales" 🚨 🗃️
Nous invitons les communications maintenant jusqu'a Nov 1! Il y a des prix pour les doctorant.e.s aussi! Plus d'information: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Nous invitons les communications maintenant jusqu'a Nov 1! Il y a des prix pour les doctorant.e.s aussi! Plus d'information: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
September 27, 2024 at 1:28 PM
🗃️🚨Appel: 2025 Congrès annuel: "Représentations de l’Empire : art, musées, expositions internationales" 🚨 🗃️
Nous invitons les communications maintenant jusqu'a Nov 1! Il y a des prix pour les doctorant.e.s aussi! Plus d'information: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Nous invitons les communications maintenant jusqu'a Nov 1! Il y a des prix pour les doctorant.e.s aussi! Plus d'information: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
🗃️🚨CFP for 2025 Annual Conference: "Representations of Empire: Art, Museums, International Expos" 🚨 🗃️
We are now accepting proposals for our 2025 annual meeting in Buffalo this May!! Graduate Student Travel Awards Available! More info at: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting proposals for our 2025 annual meeting in Buffalo this May!! Graduate Student Travel Awards Available! More info at: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
September 27, 2024 at 1:24 PM
🗃️🚨CFP for 2025 Annual Conference: "Representations of Empire: Art, Museums, International Expos" 🚨 🗃️
We are now accepting proposals for our 2025 annual meeting in Buffalo this May!! Graduate Student Travel Awards Available! More info at: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting proposals for our 2025 annual meeting in Buffalo this May!! Graduate Student Travel Awards Available! More info at: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Congrats to the 2024 Honorable Mention for the Eccles Prize: Tayzhaun Glover, Duke University, for "Transmarine Marronage, Enslaved Women and Children, and the Abolition of Slavery in Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, 1824-1839"
July 8, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Congrats to the 2024 Honorable Mention for the Eccles Prize: Tayzhaun Glover, Duke University, for "Transmarine Marronage, Enslaved Women and Children, and the Abolition of Slavery in Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, 1824-1839"
Announcing Rachel Sarcevic-Tesanovic as the 2024 winner of the FCHS Eccles Prize, which is awarded for the Best Paper presented by a graduate student at the annual conference! Congrats, Rachel!!
July 8, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Announcing Rachel Sarcevic-Tesanovic as the 2024 winner of the FCHS Eccles Prize, which is awarded for the Best Paper presented by a graduate student at the annual conference! Congrats, Rachel!!
🚨New Book Alert🚨
You can pre-order @carolinesequin.bsky.social’s amazing new book, DESIRING WHITENESS, from @cornellupress.bsky.social now!! Use code “09BCARD” to save 30% at checkout
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June 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
🚨New Book Alert🚨
You can pre-order @carolinesequin.bsky.social’s amazing new book, DESIRING WHITENESS, from @cornellupress.bsky.social now!! Use code “09BCARD” to save 30% at checkout
You can pre-order @carolinesequin.bsky.social’s amazing new book, DESIRING WHITENESS, from @cornellupress.bsky.social now!! Use code “09BCARD” to save 30% at checkout
Shorrock Awards (to fund graduate student travel to the conference):
Camille Cordier, LARHRA, Université Lyon, Lumière
Zohar Sapir Dvir, Tel Aviv University
Keanu Heydari, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alanna Louks, Queen’s University
Abbey Warchol, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill
Camille Cordier, LARHRA, Université Lyon, Lumière
Zohar Sapir Dvir, Tel Aviv University
Keanu Heydari, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alanna Louks, Queen’s University
Abbey Warchol, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill
June 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Shorrock Awards (to fund graduate student travel to the conference):
Camille Cordier, LARHRA, Université Lyon, Lumière
Zohar Sapir Dvir, Tel Aviv University
Keanu Heydari, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alanna Louks, Queen’s University
Abbey Warchol, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill
Camille Cordier, LARHRA, Université Lyon, Lumière
Zohar Sapir Dvir, Tel Aviv University
Keanu Heydari, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alanna Louks, Queen’s University
Abbey Warchol, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill
The winner of this year’s Article Prize is Yevan Terrien for “Baptiste and Marianne’s Balbásha’: Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733–1748,” Journal of American History 110, no. 2 (2023): 230-257.
June 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM
The winner of this year’s Article Prize is Yevan Terrien for “Baptiste and Marianne’s Balbásha’: Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733–1748,” Journal of American History 110, no. 2 (2023): 230-257.
The winner of the 2024 Andrew Alf Heggoy prize is Sara Rahnama’s The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. Drawing together the voices, stories, and experiences of Muslim women in Algeria from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds,...
June 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
The winner of the 2024 Andrew Alf Heggoy prize is Sara Rahnama’s The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. Drawing together the voices, stories, and experiences of Muslim women in Algeria from a wide range of social and economic backgrounds,...
Yan Slobodkin’s, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) was awarded an honourable mention for the 2024 Andrew Alf Heggoy Prize.
June 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Yan Slobodkin’s, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies (Cornell University Press, 2023) was awarded an honourable mention for the 2024 Andrew Alf Heggoy Prize.
2024 Boucher Award for the best book in French colonial history (before 1815): Sara E. Johnson, Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). HM: Daut's Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution.
June 3, 2024 at 3:13 PM
2024 Boucher Award for the best book in French colonial history (before 1815): Sara E. Johnson, Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). HM: Daut's Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution.
Nous élisons un.e nouveau/elle président.e et vice-président.e pour les mandats de deux ans commençant à partir de juillet 2024. Veuillez vous connecter sur frenchcolonial.org pour trover une déclaration de candidature et un lien au scrutin sous "liens rapides." Il n'y a qu'une seule candidate... 1/
April 22, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Nous élisons un.e nouveau/elle président.e et vice-président.e pour les mandats de deux ans commençant à partir de juillet 2024. Veuillez vous connecter sur frenchcolonial.org pour trover une déclaration de candidature et un lien au scrutin sous "liens rapides." Il n'y a qu'une seule candidate... 1/
We are electing a new President and Vice-President for two-year terms beginning in July 2024. Please login at frenchcolonial.org to find candidate statements and links to the ballot under "Quick Links." There is only one candidate nominated for each position, but there is an opportunity... 1/
April 22, 2024 at 7:38 PM
We are electing a new President and Vice-President for two-year terms beginning in July 2024. Please login at frenchcolonial.org to find candidate statements and links to the ballot under "Quick Links." There is only one candidate nominated for each position, but there is an opportunity... 1/
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April 8, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Dear Colleagues, for those who missed our ANOM workshops, you can find a wonderfully detailed PPT about the ANOM digital collections on the resources page on our website.
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March 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Dear Colleagues, for those who missed our ANOM workshops, you can find a wonderfully detailed PPT about the ANOM digital collections on the resources page on our website.
frenchcolonial.org/resources/#t...
frenchcolonial.org/resources/#t...
Imperial Imaginaries: Visions of a Second French Colonial Empire
Presented by ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network
Co-sponsored by FCHS
Thurs 21 March 1600 (GMT) / 1700 (CET) / 1200 (EDT) / 0900 (PDT)
More details at www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-even...
Presented by ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network
Co-sponsored by FCHS
Thurs 21 March 1600 (GMT) / 1700 (CET) / 1200 (EDT) / 0900 (PDT)
More details at www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-even...
February 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Imperial Imaginaries: Visions of a Second French Colonial Empire
Presented by ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network
Co-sponsored by FCHS
Thurs 21 March 1600 (GMT) / 1700 (CET) / 1200 (EDT) / 0900 (PDT)
More details at www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-even...
Presented by ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network
Co-sponsored by FCHS
Thurs 21 March 1600 (GMT) / 1700 (CET) / 1200 (EDT) / 0900 (PDT)
More details at www.ecrfrenchart.com/network-even...
Join us this International Women's Day for a conversation with Sara Rahnama, the author of The Future is Feminist: Women & Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2023).
8 March, 10AM EST
sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
8 March, 10AM EST
sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 15, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Join us this International Women's Day for a conversation with Sara Rahnama, the author of The Future is Feminist: Women & Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2023).
8 March, 10AM EST
sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
8 March, 10AM EST
sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Appel à candidatures pour les dirigeants exécutifs de la SHCF: Les membres de la SHCF sont invité.e.s à proposer des candidatures, y compris des auto- nominations, pour les prochaines élections aux postes de président.e et de vice-président.e. Veuillez soumettre une candidature avant le 8 avril 2024
February 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Appel à candidatures pour les dirigeants exécutifs de la SHCF: Les membres de la SHCF sont invité.e.s à proposer des candidatures, y compris des auto- nominations, pour les prochaines élections aux postes de président.e et de vice-président.e. Veuillez soumettre une candidature avant le 8 avril 2024
Call for Nominations for Elected Offices: Members are invited to submit nominations, including self-nominations, for upcoming elections to the offices of President and Vice President. Deadline: 8 April 2024.
February 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Call for Nominations for Elected Offices: Members are invited to submit nominations, including self-nominations, for upcoming elections to the offices of President and Vice President. Deadline: 8 April 2024.