Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessie
- Last Name
- Hewitt
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- jessie_hewitt@redlands.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Redlands
- Website URL
- http://www.jessiehewitt.com/
- Keywords
- France, nineteenth century, gender, psychiatry, disability, sexuality, medicine, culture
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I study and teach Modern European history, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century France. My research focuses on the gender and class dimensions of psychiatric treatment from the French Revolution until World War I.
I received my Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2012 and am now an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Redlands in Southern California. I’ve previously taught at Marymount University, the University of Mississippi, and the University of San Francisco.
- Recent Publications
Articles:
“Married to the ‘Living Dead’: Madness as a Cause for Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2015).
“Women Working ‘Amidst the Mad’: Domesticity as Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” French Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2015).
Blog Post:
“The Baroness: Imagining Madness, Marriage, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” on Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality (April 25, 2017).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- jessie_hewitt
- Country Focus
- France
- Expertise by Geography
- France, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Disability, Family, Gender, Medicine, Sexuality, Women
