French Historical Studies

Editorial Office:
Christine Haynes, Coeditor
Department of History
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
french.historical.studies@gmail.com

The journal does not accept books for review.

Editors:
Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Managing Editor:
Laura Foxworth

Editorial Board:
Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University
Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles
Rachel Anne Gillet, Utrecht University
Ruth Ginio, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Gillian Glaes, University of Montana
Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley
Emma Kuby, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Guillaume Mazeau, Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne
William Max Nelson, University of Toronto
Christopher Parsons, Northeastern University
Dominique Rogers, Université des Antilles, Martinique
Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology
Caroline Séquin, Lafayette College
Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University
Sarah Sussman, Stanford University
Junko Takeda, Syracuse University
Elizabeth Tingle, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Michael Vann, California State University, Sacramento
Clémentine Vidal-Naquet, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University
 

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous relations in the French Americas.
Submit by August 31, 2026. View the full call for papers in English or French.

Special issue of French Historical Studies on environmental history with a thematic emphasis on exploiting and commodifying the natural world.
Submit by August 31, 2027. View the full call for papers in English or French.

Submission guidelines for general and special issues:
To submit an article for the special issue or for any other issue, please visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-fhs. If this is your first time using ScholarOne, you will need to create an account.  Submit your manuscript, following the instructions on the site. Articles may be submitted in English or French and should be typed double-spaced, including footnotes (not endnotes), block quotes, and tables. To ensure anonymity, the author's name should not appear on the title page or in the body of the manuscript. Please follow The Chicago Manual of Style, eighteenth edition, and the journal's style guide. Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words in length (excluding footnotes). The journal asks authors to cite a diverse range of authors wherever possible, particularly women and scholars of color whose work may have been historically overlooked. Please address any questions or other editorial correspondence to the editors, Christine Haynes and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, at french.historical.studies@gmail.com.

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Please note that the journal does not publish book reviews.

Information for authors:
• Style guide

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