Contact

email: eeferg@unm.edu

office: 2099 Mesa Vista Hall

office phone: (505) 277-4308

Profile

Professor 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. Professor Ferguson's current research project 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. This is the focus of her monograph in preparation, Vengeance! Gender and Intimate Violence in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.

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

Selected Publications

“Reciprocity and Retribution: Negotiating Gender and Power in Fin-de-Siècle Paris”

Journal of Family History 30 (July 2005):287-303.

“Judicial Authority and Popular Justice in the Fin-de-Siècle Assize Court”

Forthcoming, Journal of Social History (December 2006)

“Domestic Violence By Another Name: Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris”

Forthcoming, The Journal of Women's History (Spring 2006)

Awards

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

Western Civilization to 1648; European.