Eliza Ferguson, assistant professor of history, is the winner of the Stanley Hoffmann Best Article Award of the French Politics Group of the American Political Science Meeting. Ferguson’s article, "Domestic Violence by Another Name: Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris," was the lead article published in the Winter 2007 issue of the prestigious Journal of Women’s History.
Photo: Eliza Ferguson
The award, given out every two years, is sponsored by Sciences Science Po-Paris and is administered by the French Politics Group, in collaboration with the Association Française de Science Politique. This is the second prize that has been awarded for the best English-language article on French politics. Under award consideration were 181 articles published in 2007 and 2008 in 99 journals.
Prize money of $2,000 will be given at the FPG’s reception at the American Political Science Meeting in September in Toronto.
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