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Sara Black

@sarablack.bsky.social
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I am a historian of medicine in modern France. My research focuses on the normalization of drugs like opium, cocaine, and hashish in French medical practice. www.saraeblack.com

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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Looking forward to the SFHS conference in Philadelphia this weekend! @sfhs.bsky.social
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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Share widely!! Grinnell College is hiring a TT-Asst Prof (ABD welcome) in Francophone Caribbean! Esp interested in ecocriticism, film/media studies, gender/sex, or theatre and performance studies Exp work in Creole is a +++ Applications due Oct 15th!! apply.interfolio.com/148246
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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Virginia friends: I will be giving a lecture on my book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century at a brewery in Richmond tonight. If you like beer and are interested in the history of drugs and medicine, come check it out! profsandpints.ticketleap.com/opioids/
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Profs & Pints Richmond: Pain Relief's Reckless Pioneers
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “Pain Relief’s Reckless Pioneers,” a look at how self-medicating 19th century physicians changed attitudes toward suffering and laid the foundations for today's glo…
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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Virginia friends! I will be giving a lecture on my book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century at a brewery in Richmond on June 26. If you like beer and are interested in the history of drugs and medicine, come check it out! profsandpints.ticketleap.com/opioids/
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Profs & Pints Richmond: Pain Relief's Reckless Pioneers
Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “Pain Relief’s Reckless Pioneers,” a look at how self-medicating 19th century physicians changed attitudes toward suffering and laid the foundations for today's glo…
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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
New Article: Josephine Butler in Paris www.andrewisraelross.com/blog/2024/06... #history #publication
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New Article: Josephine Butler in Paris
I’ve been working on an article examining Josephine Butler’s campaign against morals policing in Paris for quite a while now and it’s finally out. This article, the first publishe…
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
🗃️Deadline extended for the JWH Best Doctoral Student Research Paper in the history of women, gender, and sexualities!!! Submit papers electronically by Friday, June 28, 2024, to Jennifer Nelson, chair: jennifer_nelson@redlands.edu. See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for eligibility.
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Announcements – journal of women’s history
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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Gave a short radio interview about my book Drugging France, last week on With Good Reason! You can check it out here: www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/drug...
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Drugging France - With Good Reason
Addiction isn't a one-size-fits-all disease. Women experience it differently than men.
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
My New Books in French Studies interview with @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social re: THE RED WIDOW is online, enfin. Huge thanks to Sarah for this conversation - a pure delight! Listen… newbooksnetwork.com/the-red-widow
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Sarah Horowitz,
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French History (Journal) @frenchhistory.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
'French History' is inviting contributions to a special issue on 'Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories'. Initial proposals due July 2024. 'French History' invite des contributions pour un dossier spécial: propositions initiales, Juillet 2024. academic.oup.com/fh/pages/cal... 🗃️
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Call for Papers: Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories
Historical research has changed in the age of big data. Thanks to the labour of archivists, librarians, and other researchers to catalogue, digitize and analyse
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Join us on May 5 @ 3pm!
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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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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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Congratulations Hannah!
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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
I am delighted to announce that Drugging France won the J. Russell Major Prize from the AHA! Thank you so much to Bonnie Smith and to all of my friends and colleagues who provided feedback and advice over the years. I am so grateful for your support! @ahahistorians.bsky.social
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Call for papers: please share sslh.org.uk/2023/10/05/t...
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Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nine...
A one-day conference on ‘Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nineteenth century’ will take place at the University of Tours, France, 8-9...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 05/10/2023
The program for #AHA24 is available to browse! This year’s annual meeting will feature more than 450 sessions and over 60 posters. 🗃️
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AHA24 Program
Presenting opportunities for connecting, a hub of scholarship, resources for educators, career development, and local history
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
This fantastic collection of bibliographic essays is not just a narrative guide to scholarship about past epidemics but a collective reckoning with the limitations of #histmed #histsci in the face of a pandemic. All #openaccess and highly recommended. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202...
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Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Excited to be in the other place! Thanks for the invite @rebeccapscales.bsky.social !
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