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Sarah Horowitz Professor of History
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Education
Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
M.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
B.A. in History and Art History, summe cum laude, Wellesley College, 1999
Teaching
I teach classes on French history since the seventeenth century to the present, as well as the history of gender and sexuality in modern Europe. I also teach courses on crime and scandal and Parisian life and history.
Selected Publications
"The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris - and the Woman Behind it All," (Sourcebooks, forthcoming in 2022)
“Scandalous Friendships: The Dangers of Intimacy in the Steinheil Affair of 1908-1909,” Romanic Review, 101, no. 1-4 (May 2019)
“The End of Love: Politics, Emotions and Domestic Violence in the Choiseul-Praslin Affair,” Journal of Family History, vol. 42, no. 4 (October 2017)
“Foucault’s Panopticon — A Model for NSA Surveillance?” in Privacy and Power: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the Shadow of the NSA-Affair, ed. Russell Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
with Brandon Walsh, Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook, 2016
“Luxe, amour et transactions: La Culture des bijoux dans l’Ancien Régime,” Sociétés et Représentations, no. 38 (Fall 2014)
"Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France" (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2013)
"Policing and the Problem of Privacy in Restoration-Era France, 1815-30," French History 27, no. 1 (January 2013)
"The Bonds of Concord and the Guardians of Trust: Women, Emotion, and Political Life, 1815-1848," French Historical Studies 35, no. 3 (Summer 2012)
Current Research
I am writing a biography of Marguerite Steinheil (1869-1954), a famous courtesan who was tried for murdering her husband and mother in 1909. She lived a fascinating life, one that reveals a great deal about the nature of celebrity, scandal, crime, gender and sexuality in Belle Époque France.