Faculty and Staff
Clare Crowston
Associate Professor of History
Professor Crowston specializes in the social and cultural history of early modern France, the history of women and gender, and the history of work, economic exchange, and consumption. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791(Duke University Press, 2001), winner of the Berkshire Prize and the Hagley Prize. Her articles have appeared in scholarly journals including Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales; Gender and History, and French Historical Studies, as well as several edited volumes. She is co-author of A History of Western Society, 9th edition (Houghton-Mifflin, 2007) and A History of World Societies, 8th edition (forthcoming 2008). She is currently engaged in two book projects: one focuses on the intersection of credit, fashion, and sex in eighteenth-century France and the other is a co-authored study of apprenticeship in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Clare Crowston received her BA from McGill University in 1988 and her doctorate from Cornell University in 1996. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern Europe, women and gender, work, material culture and the creation of a consumer society.