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Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy: Gimon Fellowship Recipients

A brief description of the Gimon Collection, with links to materials in the collection and information about the short-term fellowship

Gimon Fellowship Recipients

Institutional affiliations at time of application

2024

Elizabeth Heath (Baruch College: CUNY): "Invisible Empires: Colonial Commodities, Capitalism, and the Making of the Modern French Self, 1750-1970"

Alyse Muller (Columbia University): "Between Land and Sea: French Maritime Imagery in the Long Eighteenth Century”

Giulio Talini (University of Naples Federico II): "The Political Economy of Colonial Development: Chambers of Commerce, Chambers of Agriculture, and the Practices of Economic Knowledge in the French Atlantic, 1759-1791"

2023

Arielle Alterwaite (University of Pennsylvania): "Empire of Death: Haiti and France in the Nineteenth-Century World"

Nicole Bauer (University of Oklahoma): "Not-so-clandestine Conspirators: Jacobin Ideas of Secrecy and Property and their Legacies"

Netta Green (Princeton University): "Before Kinship: Inheritance, Families, and the Social Sciences in France, 1789-1830"

2020 (visits in 2022-2023)

Auguste Bertholet (Université de Lausanne) : “Les Théories de réformes économiques et politiques dans le Pays de Vaud au XVIIIe siècle”

Julia Nicholls (King’s College London) : “Slavery and Labour in Nineteenth-Century French Thought”

2019

Erika Vause (St. John’s University): “Imagining Disaster: Prévoyance and Precarity in Nineteenth-Century France.”

Rachel Waxman (Johns Hopkins University): “The Political Economy of Sugar in the Age of Revolution” 

2018

Arnaud Orain (Université de Paris 8) : “Writing Economics in Early Modern France: Language, Rhetoric and Genre in the Elaboration of Political Economy, c1600–1800”

Álvaro Santana-Acuña (Whitman College): “Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Intellectual Origins of France’s National Cadastre”

2017

Elizabeth Cross (Harvard University/Florida State University): “The French East India Company and the Politics of Commerce in the Revolutionary Era”

Gregory Mole (Albion College): “Monarchy on the Margins: Empire, Scandal, and the Making of Modern France”

2016

Simon MacDonald (European University Institute, Florence): “French Connections: Expatriation and Political Economy between Britain and France in the Eighteenth-Century” 

Niccolò Valmori (European University Institute, Florence): Political economy under the Directory: Jean Herrenschwand and Pierre-Louis Roederer’s Journal de Paris.

2015

Kevin Duong (Cornell University): “Social Republicanism: Revolutionary Citizenship in French Economic Thought, 1830-1871”

2014

Julia Abramson (University of Oklahoma): “Financier, Lawyer, Priest: Power and the Professions in Enlightenment France”

Christine Zabel (University of Duisburg-Essen): Missed Chances and Bad Bets: Speculation and Bankruptcy in Early Modern Europe

2013

International Conference: “Between Theory and Practice: The 19th Century French Socialist Press at the Stanford University Libraries"

2012

Raymond Jonas (University of Washington): “Before Empire”

Mark Greengrass  (University of Warwick): “Making News in Renaissance France”

Jared Holley (Cambridge University): “Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

Arnault Skornicki (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre): “From Necker to Saint-Simonism: The Making of an Alternative Political Economy”

Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia): “The Influence of French Political Economy on the Formation of Colombian Economic Thought in the Second Half of the XIXth century”

2011

Vincent Bruyere (Pennsylvania State University): “How Many of Us?  Planetary Narratives in the French Atlantic World”

Emily Pfiefer (University of California, Riverside): “Bodies of Luxury:  The Body in 18th Century French Luxury Debates”

2010

Edward Castleton (Université de Franche-Comté): “Proudhon and the Atlas historique de l’économie politique”

2009

Michael Drolet (Oxford University): “Poles of the Globe:  Geology and the Clash of Civilisations in the Thought of Michel Chevalier”

Bertie Mandelblatt (Université de Montréal): “Rum and Molasses: Commodity Culture and Colonial Trade Networks in the Eighteenth Century French Atlantic”

David Woodworth (Johns Hopkins University): “Public Credit and Plutocracy:  War Finance and the nouveau riches of the French Revolution and Empire, 1789-1815”

2008

Jotham Parsons (Duquesne University): “Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the Modern State”

Ludovic Frobert (Ecole normale supérieure, Lyon/CNRS): “L’Echo de la fabrique. Naissance de la presse ouvrière à Lyon 1831-1834 and La voix des canuts. Une démocratie turbulente 1831-1834 »

Pierre Merkle (Ecole normale supérieure, Lyon): « La réception de l’oeuvre de Charles Fourier et de ses disciples par les tenants des doctrines sociales et politiques concurrentes du fouriérisme au XIXe siècle”

2007

Sophie Delvallez (Université Paris VIII): “Parcours de femmes saint-simoniennes au XIXème siècle” 

Pernille Røge (Cambridge University): “The ‘perfectibility’ of France’s colonial system:  French Physiocracy and African rêverie 1763-1793”