Contact

email: eeferg@unm.edu

office: 2099 Mesa Vista Hall

office phone: (505) 277-4308

Profile

Dr. Ferguson teaches introductory courses in western civilization, as well as upper-level classes in European women's history, French history, the history of sexuality, and topics in modern European social and cultural history. Dr. Ferguson's first book is a historical ethnography of the lives of the laboring poor in Paris in the late nineteenth century. Her research explores practices of violence in intimate relationships – what used to be called “crimes of passion” and would now be termed domestic violence.

Education

B.A. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993

History and International Studies Majors with Distinction and Honors  

Université de Montpellier III, 1991-1992

M.A. in History, 1996, Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, 1995

Ph.D. in History, Duke University, 2000

Research

Dr. Ferguson's new research project focuses on girls in the belle epoque.

Selected Publications

Book

Gender and Justice: Violence, Intimacy, and Community in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2010

Articles

“Domestic Violence by Another Name:  Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris" Journal of Women’s History 19 (Winter 2007): 12-34. (Winner of the 2009 Stanley Hoffman Best Article Prize from the French Politics Section of the American Political Science Association)

"Judicial Authority and Popular Justice in the Fin-de-Siecle Assize Court" Journal of Social History 40 (Winter 2006): 293-315.

"Reciprocity and Retribution: Negotiating Gender and Power in Fin-de-Siecle Paris." Journal of Family History 30 (July 2005):287-303.

Awards

Stanley Hoffman Best Article Prize from the French Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, 2009

Research Allocations Committee Grant, UNM, 2007

Frederik B. M. Hollyday Instructor in History, Duke University, 1998-1999

Ernestine Friedl Research Fellowship, Duke Program in Women's Studies, 1997

Gilbert Chinard Fellowship, Institut Français de Washington, 1997

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1996-1997

Morehead Scholarship, John Motley Morehead Foundation, 1988-1993

Phi Beta Kappa, 1993

Courses

Undergraduate: Western Civ to 1648, Western Civ Since 1648, Modern European Women's History, Modern France, Modern European Imperialism, City Life

Gradatue: Advanced Historiography, History of Sexuality