Janine Lanza

Janine Lanza

Research

• France
• Women/gender
• Legal history
• History of work

Education

• Ph.D. in History, Cornell University, 1996
• M.A. in History, Cornell University, 1990
• A.B. in History, University of Chicago, 1987

Awards and grants

• 2023-2024 Academic Year - Cameron Fellow, St. Andrews University, Scotland UK (in residence January-April 2024)
• April 2012: Career Development Chair Award, Wayne State University
• April 2009: Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University
• January 2008: Resident Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• April 2007: University Research Grant, Wayne State University
• August 1999 - August 2000: NEH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, held at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
• January 1998: Bernadotte E. Schmidt Research Fellowship, American Historical Association
• September 1992-July 1993: Bourse Chateaubriand, French Cultural Attaché

News mentions

• Kamala Harris is redefining how a woman runs for president

Selected publications

Book

• From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris: Gender, Economy and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)

Articles and essays

• “Women Minding the Store in Eighteenth Century France,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10, no. 1 (2015)
• “Women and Work,” Ashgate Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate: April 2013)
• “La veuve et l’atelier: le cas de Paris au dix-huitième siècle,” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 56, no. 3 (2009)
• “What is the Law if not the Expression of the Rights of Man and Reason? The Champ de Mars Massacre and the Language of Law,” Law and History Review 19, no. 2 (2001): 283-310

Courses taught by Janine Lanza

Fall Term 2023

• HIS5996 - Junior or Senior Research Seminar

Winter Term 2023

• HIS5410 - France's Global Revolutions
• HIS7410 - Readings in the French Revolution and Napoleon
• HIS8235 - Seminar in Early Modern European History

Fall Term 2022

• HIS2605 - History of Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Modern World
• HIS3995 - Special Topics in History
• HIS6000 - Studies in Comparative History
• GSW2600 - History of Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Modern World

Winter Term 2022

• HIS8150 - Seminar in the History of Gender, Women and Sexuality
• HIS8240 - Seminar in Modern European History