Faculty and Staff

Clare Haru Crowston

Department of History
309 Gregory Hall, 466-MC
810 S. Wright St.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois
61801

Work Telephone: (217) 333-1155
Home Telephone: (217) 344-5591
Fax: (217) 333-2297
E-mail: crowston@illinois.edu

Employment

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2002-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1996 -
Lecturer, Department of History, Cornell University, Spring 1996

Education

Ph.D., History, Cornell University, 1996
M.A., History, Cornell University, 1990
B.A., English Literature and European History, McGill University, 1988

Publication

Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)
"From Moral Economies to Rational Actors: Theory and the Interpretation of Economy and Material Life," Approaching Early Modern History, edited by Garthine Walker (Arnold, 2005)
« La reine et sa ‘ministre des modes’ : Genre, crédit et politique dans la France pré-révolutionnaire, » Travail, genre et sociétés 13 (2005).
“L'apprentissage hors des corporations. Les formations professionnelles alternatives á Paris sous l'Ancien Régime,” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales v. 60, no. 2 (2005): 409-442.
"An Industrious Revolution in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris: New Vocational Training for Adolescent Girls and the Creation of Female Labor Markets," Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in Modern European History, edited by M. J. Maynes, Birgitte Soland and Christina Benninghaus, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005)
“Du corps des couturières à l’Union de l’Aiguille: les continuités imaginaires d’un corporatisme au féminin, 1675-1895” In La France malade du corporatisme? edited by Steven L. Kaplan and Philippe Minard. (Paris: Belin, 2004)
"The Queen and her 'Minister of Fashion': Gender, Credit and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France," Gender and History vol. 14, no. 1 (April 2002): 92-116.
"Women and the Multiple Meanings of Credit: The Financial Records of the Fashion Merchant, Rose Bertin," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (2000) vol. 28 (2002): 335-344.
“Engendering the Guilds: Seamstresses, Tailors and the Clash of Corporate Identities in Old Regime France,” French Historical Studies vol. 23, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 335-392.
"Le travail féminin en France vu par l'historiographie américaine,"Revue d‘histoire moderne et contemporaine 45, 4 (October-December, 1998): 837-853

Publications in Progress

“Pilgrim’s Progress: From Suburban Canada to Paris, via Tokyo, Tehran and Montreal” solicited essay for Why France? (a collection of autobiographical essays by French historians), Laura Lee Downs and Stephane Gerson, eds.; under review with Cornell University Press
“Family Affairs: Wives, Credit, Consumption and the Law in Old Regime France,” solicited essay for a volume on Old Regime Family and Law, edited by Suzanne Desan and Jeffrey Merrick. The final draft of the essay has been submitted to editors; it will go to readers shortly
“From School to Workshop: Pre-Training and Apprenticeship in Old Regime France,” solicited essay for a volume on early modern European work, edited by Hugo Soly. The final draft of the essay has been submitted to the editor.
I am currently editing a special issue of the Journal of Women’s History on material culture and consumption, which will appear in 2007.

Reprints

James Collins and Karen Taylor, eds. Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretations (Blackwell, 2005), chapter 24: “The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normany, and Provence” (reprint of portion of Fabricating Women)

Awards

Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for the best essay published in 2002 for "The Queen and her 'Minister of Fashion': Gender, Credit and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France".
Hagley Prize for the best book in Business History, 2003 for Fabricating Women
Berkshire Prize for the best first book in history written by a woman in North America, 2001 for Fabricating Women.

Grants and Fellowships

NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, January 2002-December 2002
Summer Travel Support and Research Assistant, UIUC Research Board, summer 1999 and AY 1999-2000
Humanities Released Time. UIUC Research Board, Fall 1997
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1993 - 1994
Doctoral Fellowship. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 1990 - 1993
Chateaubriand Fellowship, Government of France, 1991 - 1992
Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Council of European Studies, Summer 1990
Research Travel Grant, Einaudi Foundation, Summer 1989

Papers

"Two Sides of the Same Coin? Fashion and Credit in Eighteenth-Century France," Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Paris, France, June 2004
“Femininity, Fashion and Power in France from the Old Regime through the French Revolution,” Keynote speaker, Missouri Valley History Conference, March 5, 2004
“Femininity, Fashion and Power in Old Regime France,” Annual Burkhardt Lecture, Ball State University, February 27, 2004
"Le Commerce du Monde: Credit, Fashion and Gender in 18th C. France" Invited Lecture, History Department, McGill University, February 9, 2004
"Trade Skill, Gender and Sexuality: The Cultural and Social Role of Apprenticeship in Eighteenth-Century Paris," Conference on Female Adolescence: Work and Sexuality, Ohio State University, October 2000.
"From School to Workshop: Pre-Training and Apprenticeship in Old Regime France," FWO Research Network, Labour 1500-2000, Conference on Apprenticeship (Middle Ages-2000), Bilzen, Belgium, December 8, 2000.
"Gender and Credit: The Financial Records of Rose Bertin, 'Minister of Fashion,'" Western Society for French History, Los Angeles, California, November 11, 2000.
“Apprenticeship and the Gendering of Trade Skill in Eighteenth-Century France,” Society for French Historical Studies Conferences, Tempe, Arizona, April 1, 2000.
“Femininity, Fashion and Power,” invited presentation to the Feminist Scholarship Series, UIUC, March 8, 2000.
“Women as Breadwinner: The Seamstresses of Eighteenth-Century Paris,”
invited presentation to Conference on Women, Work and the Breadwinner Ideology, Salzburg, Austria, December 6-8, 1999.
“From the Seamstresses’ Guild to the Union of the Needle: Women’s Corporate History in France in the Longue Durée,” Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., March 20, 1999.
“Career Paths in the Parisian Seamstresses’ Guild: Apprenticesh and Mistress-Ship,” Workshop on Economic History, University of Chicago, December 11, 1999.
“Women’s Work Outside of the (Patriarchal) Family Economy?:  The Seamstresses of Eighteenth-Century Paris” Conference on Family History, Ottawa, Ontario, May 15-17, 1997
“Engendering the Guild System: The Tailors and Seamstresses of Eighteenth-Century France,” Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, March 20-22, 1997.
"Le Marché du travail féminin :  Les ouvrières couturières de Paris et Aix-en-Provence au XVIIIe siècle."  Seminar of Maurice Aymard, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales  in Paris, France, February 1993

Book Reviews

Review of Marcel van der Linden and Lex Heerma van Voss, eds. Class and Other Identities: Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History. (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002) Journal of Social History.
Review of Christine Adams, A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000) H-France, February 2002
Review of Leonard N. Rosenband, Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution in the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) Journal of Economic History.
Review of Martha Howell, The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) Social History, vol. 25, no. 1 (January 2000).
Review of Alan Hunt, Governance of the Consuming Passions,  (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) American Journal of Sociology, March 1998.

Scholarly Service

Co-President, Society for French Historical Studies, 2005-2006
Pinkney Prize Committee, Society for French Historical Studies, 2002-2005 (Committee Chair 2005)
Reviewed articles for publication for French Historical Studies (November 1999, June 2002); Gender and History (March 2000), Enterprise and History (June 2000);
Reviewed book manuscripts for publication: Pennsylvania State University Press (November 2005), Ashgate (April 2005), Stanford University Press (June 2004), University of North Carolina Press (September 2004); Berg Press (April 2004); Harvard University Press (April 2003); Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. (August 2000).
Tenure review: for University of Richmond (August 2005)

Departmental and Campus Service and Awards

History Department Queen Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2004
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Advisory Council, 2003-2004
Graduate College Career Center Advisory Committee, 2003- 2004
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair, History Department 2002-2005
Departmental Executive Committee, 2002-2004
TA Coordinator, 2000-2002
Chair, Academic Programming Committee, 2000-2002
History Department Alumni Discretionary Support Award for outstanding departmental service, July 1997
Search Committee for Randall Chair, Fall 2004, Fall 2005; American Colonial History, Fall 1996
External Review Committee 2005-2006