Sue Peabody

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Susan Lee Peabody (born September 6, 1960 in Omak , Washington, DC ) is an American historian . Her research focus is on the history of colonialism , slavery and legal history in the French Empire from 1600–1850.

Life

Sue Peabody graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1983 with a bachelor's degree . Five years later, she completed a Master of Arts in history at the University of Iowa , where she also received her PhD in 1993. She then worked for two years as a research fellow at Amherst College in Massachusetts on African American religions .

In 1996, Peabody published the revised version of her dissertation entitled There Are No Slaves in France: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime . Due to her outstanding doctorate and extraordinary qualifications, Peabody received the junior professorship in history at Washington State University Vancouver (WSU) in the same year . After only four years she rose to extraordinary professor with the prospect of a permanent position ( tenure track ).

Since 2007 Peabody has been officially employed as a professor of history and humanities at WSU. In 2017 she received the honorary title Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and History for life from the WSU .

reception

With her publication There Are No Slaves in France , which deals with the notion of freedom and slavery in the Ancien Régime , Sue Peabody first drew attention to herself in historical studies . The work was chosen by Choice as "outstanding academic book" of 1997 and has been reviewed by several historians, such as Alice L. Conklin and Ruth F. Necheles-Jansyn . According to Conklin, Sue Peabody's work is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the “Genealogy of Racism and the Idea of ​​Freedom in Modern France”. According to Necheles-Jansyn, Sue Peabody's work merely follows the tradition of cultural historians such as Natalie Zemon Davis and Robert Darnton , without really getting a general readership. Like Davis and Darnton, Sue Peabody specializes in 18th-century French history, examining the question of how certain ideas arise in a society, how they later develop and are perceived by actors. Similar to the two cultural historians, Peabody is extremely close to the sources and includes archive material in her work.

In Peabody's latest work, microstory , Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies, she deals with Madeleine, who was sold into slavery as a child in India and, after Madeleine's demise, follows her three children Fought for their freedom in the Mascarene Mountains in the 19th century . Peabody earned a lot of critical acclaim and received multiple awards for her monograph . Nigel Worden, for example, praised the work as a “careful and exclusive study”, which “gives an insight into more far-reaching topics such as race, abolitionism and rule in the French colonial world”. According to Virginie Ems-Bléneau , Peabody's book is of interest not only to those who wish to better understand the historian's craft, but also to those concerned with "the construction of race and identity in relation to slavery and freedom." .

Awards

Sue Peabody received the following awards for her monograph Madeleine's Children in 2018:

  • David H. Pinkney Prize , The Society For French Historical Studies
  • Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize , The Western Association of Women Historians
  • Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Prize , The French Colonial Historical Society

Publications (selection)

  • Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies. Oxford University Press, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-023388-4 .
  • With Pierre H. Boulle: Le droit des noirs en France au temps de l'esclavage. L'Harmattan, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-343-04823-9 .
  • With Keila Grinberg: Escravidão e Liberdade nas Américas. Editora FGV, Rio de Janeiro 2013, ISBN 978-85-225-1456-4 .
  • With Keila Grinberg: Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World. A Brief History with Documents. Bedford / St. Martin's, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0312411763 .
  • “There Are No Slaves in France”: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime. Oxford University Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-19-510198-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sue Peabody - Education. Washington State University Vancouver website. Accessed July 31, 2019
  2. ^ A b Sue Peabody - Curriculum Vitae. Accessed July 31, 2019
  3. ^ There Are No Slaves in France - Reviews and Awards. Oxford University Press website. Accessed July 31, 2019
  4. ↑ Review by Alice L. Conklin: There Are No Slaves in France . , in: Social History, 1998. Retrieved July 31, 2019
  5. ↑ Review by Ruth F. Necheles-Jansyn: There Are No Slaves in France . , in: History, Reviews of New Books, 1997. Retrieved August 1, 2019
  6. ↑ Review by Nigel Worden: Madeleine's Children. , inn: The American Historical Review, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2019
  7. ^ Madeleine's Children - Reviews and Awards. Oxford University Press website. Retrieved August 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Peabody, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peabody, Susan Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Omak