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Hannah Frydman

@hannahfrydman.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France shipping now from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something that has troubled me over and over in these AI years is how we seem to need to redraw every line to accommodate AI. It is possible for writing to have value for thinking and for oral exams and discussions to have value. We don't need to remake the world to eliminate writing/5
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Mélodie Simard-Houde @mshoude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pour le plaisir, et pour rendre quelques «histoires vraies» sentimentales plus accessibles aujourd'hui, j'ai édité, avec trois étudiant.es de l'UQTR, une petite anthologie du genre, maintenant disponible en libre accès sur Médias 19 ! www.medias19.org/textes-du-19...
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚨 Our double issue of Dix-Neuf is now up!! TO THE PASSERSBY: BEFORE & AFTER BAUDELAIRE has 8 stunning articles that center the passante herself through cultural, visual, and literary history, ecocritical, feminist, and queer perspectives
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Céline Bessière @celinebessiere.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
J'espère que ce texte donnera envie de lire ces deux merveilleux livres de @clairelisegaillard.bsky.social et A. Limbada et aussi de plonger dans la thèse de @paulinemortas.bsky.sl, notamment celleux qui s'intéressent au féminisme, sexualité, conjugalité (et pas que en histoire)
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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This project was a real struggle to bring over the finish line (we began it before Covid), but thanks to my amazing contributors, most of whom aren't on here but @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @nmw1.bsky.social are!
Table of contents of A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire:

Introduction by Andrew Israel Ross
1. Prostitution and the State by Philip Howell
2. Prostitution and Identity by Sandy F. Chang
3 Prostitution and the Market by Hannah Frydman
4 Prostitution Religion and Morality by Sara E. Lampert and Andrew Israel Ross
5 Prostitution, Medicine, Health and the Body by Nancy Wingfield
6 Prostitution and the Visual and Performing Arts by Sara E. Lampert
7 Prostitution and Literature by Jacob Meister
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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Coming soon! 🗃️
Cover page of "A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire."
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Check what's between the sheets at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page - praise for her bright, beautiful, and important book, interviews with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social about book-building, and details on ordering your *medal-winning* copy: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (2/2)
A bright magenta book cover, with newspaper clipping at center with a black text box shaped as a sideways heart with subtitle in yellow text. At top is the book title "Between the Sheets" in yellow text, and at bottom is the author name "Hannah Frydman" in yellow text.
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Great news, #SkyStorians! The IPPY Awards have given @hannahfrydman.bsky.social a Bronze medal for "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France"! See the full cool list of cool medalists here: ippyawards.com/blog/2026-me... (1/2) Then...
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2026 Medalists - General Categories | IPPY Book Awards
Congratulations and sincere thanks to the independent authors and publishers who participated in our 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. Here are the medalists in each of our categories.
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Hilary Buxton @hbuxton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Shamelessly getting back on the social media to say that my imperial history of military medicine is imminently about to be published: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Disabled Empire
Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health.  Disabled Empire exami...
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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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differences @differences.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
This image is a poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: History under Siege." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "How does critical history address the impasse between conventional history, on the one hand, and aggressive authoritarian rewriting of history, on the other? Given critical history’s theoretical critique of the positivist understanding of facts, what is its response to the assertion of 'alternative facts'? And what impact, if any, can it have on current battles as to what counts as history?" Below this description is a list of participants: Joan W. Scott (Insitute for Advanced Study), Omnia El Shakry (Yale University), Gary Wilder (CUNY Grad Center), and Korey Williams (University of Chicago). The event will take place on March 6th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.
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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
THE MUNBY FELLOWSHIP IS NOW 12 MONTHS!!!! If you're thinking about applying, do it. As well as the blissful research time and independence to explore unparalleled collections across Cambridge, you get supportive mentorship, great colleagues and a college environment to boot. I loved it.
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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...
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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France
Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It was very fun to grapple with a source that I've found challenging to interpret (Thanks for all your help with this, @rpanchasi.bsky.social)!
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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London Lives
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online
Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Farquad mafia
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Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:
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The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If you’re near @harvard.edu this afternoon, join us for a discussion of @hannahfrydman.bsky.social’s fabulous new book, in conversation with yours truly. ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...
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Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press…
Join us for a discussion of Hannah Frydman's recently published book Between the Sheets (Cornell University Press, 2025) with CES Resident Faculty Mary D.…
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If you’re in the Boston area this Wednesday I’d love for you to come on out! This talk is free and open to the public. as.tufts.edu/art-architec...
A poster for the talk, “The AI heist: how the tech industry exploits the history of art and what we can do to stop it.” Details of the time and location are in the link in the post. The abstract is as follows: 

Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art-can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms' offers?
This talk responds to this question by providing an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. However, the main focus of this talk is not what computer vision does. Rather, I consider the culture of the AI industry, its main objectives, and the dangerous vision for the future that it promises-and whether those promises are credible or even in good faith. This vision for the future has relied on an exploitation of history, and art history in particular, and I argue that it is our responsibility as art historians to be knowledgeable about the forms this exploitation takes. I conclude with suggestions about what we can do to protect the subjects and practitioners of our discipline, as well as education in the humanities more broadly, against this incursion. I do not intend an intransigent rejection of a given technology; rather this talk articulates a challenge that is grounded in knowledge of the historical origins and corporate practices of the AI industry today.
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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
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LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography – SHARP NEWS
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"As sex worker, queer, and, more recently, abortion activists continue to remind us, the rights infringements oppressed communities are experiencing [on the internet] will not stop on the margins." www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...
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Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History
Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.
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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hannah Frydman, author of BETWEEN THE SHEETS, discusses the history of sexual #advertising and the modern ways we see #media and #FreeSpeech grapple with sexual content. @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Now on the #SageHouseBlog: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...
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Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History
Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If you read "Between the Sheets," I wouldn't recommend starting with page 99, but, if you do, this blog post might help! page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/hann... @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social
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Hannah Frydman's "Between the Sheets"
Hannah Frydman is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures (French) at Harvard University. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” ...
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"'Between the Sheets' reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed... That space was the newspaper..." - @hannahfrydman.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-histor...
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Media and the History of Sexual Advertising in Between the Sheets
Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.
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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Be sure to read this new review of FIVE recent books on Algerian History (@tgpeterson.bsky.social, @elisefranklin.bsky.social, Sara Rahnama, Elizabeth Perego, and Susan Slyomovics) by @anaisfaurt.bsky.social in Contemporary European History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Copy of the book Between the Sheets sitting on a cafe table in Paris
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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
BETWEEN THE SHEETS by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social reveals a space where deviant sexualities + lives could be experimented with and financed, despite attempts at norming the population through the heterosexual family. #NewBooks #CornellUniversityPress www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Between the Sheets by Hannah Frydman | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at growing...
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Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My book, among many others, is currently at 50% off on @cornellupress.bsky.social website with the code 095000. Don’t miss out!
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️
A pale yellow book cover with a caricature of a dumpy white man in a black frock coat and white trousers holding a top hat with an umbrella over his shoulder facing a dark-skinned man in a long dark blue haik and white trousers with a turban on his head and a curved sword over his shoulder. The title reads: By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria, Jennifer E. Sessions
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/06/2025
@hannahfrydman.bsky.social looks at the “infinite archive” and its search capability in “In Defense of the Search Bar,” and demonstrates how the “anarchy of the mass digitization and its search bar” can push researchers to “think outside of long-established classifications.” #AHR 🗃️
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In Defense of the Search Bar
Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Really excited that my "In Defense of the Search Bar," which argues that keyword search allows us to queer the archive and how we see the past, is out now in the #AHR! doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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In Defense of the Search Bar
Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com re: the 30th anniversary (this Fri) of President Jacques Chirac's June 13th, 1995 announcement that France would be resuming nuclear testing in the Pacific. 210 detonations in Algeria & Mā'ohi Nui (French Polynesia) from 1960-1996. Thousands of victims.
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France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on
Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.
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Anne O’Neil-Henry @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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Current Table of Contents | ncfs
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Good mail day! (Too camera shy for an unboxing video, so just imagine me opening this much-needed infusion of pink joy with delight)
A stack of copies of Between the Sheets, a hot pink book by Hannah Frydman
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Team #BlueSkyStorians & @sfhs.bsky.social, I have awesome news... @hannahfrydman.bsky.social's cleverly titled "Between the Sheets" is shipping! Intrigued? Find your copy at @cornellupress.bsky.social's page, add to your cart, and anxiously await arrival: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network @ecrfrenchart.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Happening this Tuesday! Do join us and sign up via the link below.
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
My advanced copy of Between the Sheets is competing with my rhododendrons now, but spring blooms probably won't last much longer. You can pre-order my book for an infusion of color in the summer www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (use code 09BCARD for 30% off)
Hot pink book with pink rhododendron flowers
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/03/2025
Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️
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“Living Fossils”: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt
Abstract. This article traces the scientific afterlife of the mummy Queen Henhenit from excavation and circulation to examination and display in twentieth-
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm really excited to be able to share the cover of my new book, "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France," coming out in July with @cornellupress.bsky.social and available for pre-order at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Book cover of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France with an illustration of a woman reading the newspaper set in a torn out excerpt from the classified page.
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Patricia Tilburg @proftilburg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Excited that my article "Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, & Fashion in Belle Époque France," is in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society. Find out how ladies' hats became a matter of environmental policy! 🗃️ nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Image of the cover page of a journal article by Patricia Tilburg in the latest issue of French Politics, Culture & Society titled, “Feathered Foes: Bird Preservation, National Identity, and Fashion in Belle Époque France.” the image includes the abstract: "When turn-of-the-century environmentalists in the U.S. and Europe began to promote legislative action against the use of exotic bird feathers in women’s fashion, French naturalists stood apart from their Anglo-American colleagues in offering an ecological program that emphasized the needs of the French feather trade. This article explores the particular French cultural investment in fashion not only by feather tradesmen but also by conservationists from the 1890s through the 1920s."
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our Zoom book series NCFS Unbound resumes this Friday at 2:30 EST with Helen Craske in conversation with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature Register below #academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 2: Helen Craske with Hannah Frydman. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Helen Craske discusses her new book "Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature" with Hannah Frydman
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Super news for the #BlueSkyStorians, @sfhs.bsky.social, & historically-minded matchmaking fans! @andreamansker.bsky.social's "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" is ready to order now at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Graduate advisors have a responsibility to support doctoral students who increasingly pursue non-professorial careers. Join us for "More than a Safety Net--A Bridge," a @WestFrenchHist event on 11/9 at 10am EST. Link to registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-...
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More than a Safety Net--A Bridge: Mentoring Beyond Academia
A flipped conversation with current PhD students moderating a panel of faculty on supporting those with non-professorial careers.
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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
I am going to be discussing my book, Drugging France, this Sunday with the wonderful Hannah Frydman. If you are interested in drug history, please join us! @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social
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