Janine Marie Lanza (ao1605)

University information

Title: Department Chair
Unit: History
Department: College of Liberal Arts & Science

Contact information

313-577-2525
3094 FAB
Detroit, 48202

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department:

History

Title: Associate professor
Secondary Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office:

3115 Faculty/Administration Building (FAB)

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Research:
  • France
  • Women/gender
  • Legal history
  • History of work
Education:
  • Ph.D. in History, Cornell University, 1996
  • M.A. in History, Cornell University, 1990
  • A.B. in History, University of Chicago, 1987
Awards and grants:
  • 2023-2024 Academic Year - Cameron Fellow, St. Andrews University, Scotland UK (in residence January-April 2024)
  • April 2012: Career Development Chair Award, Wayne State University
  • April 2009: Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University
  • January 2008: Resident Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • April 2007: University Research Grant, Wayne State University
  • August 1999 - August 2000: NEH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, held at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
  • January 1998: Bernadotte E. Schmidt Research Fellowship, American Historical Association
  • September 1992-July 1993: Bourse Chateaubriand, French Cultural Attaché
Selected publications:

Book

  • From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris: Gender, Economy and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)

Articles and essays

  • “Women Minding the Store in Eighteenth Century France,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10, no. 1 (2015)
  • “Women and Work,” Ashgate Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate: April 2013)
  • “La veuve et l’atelier: le cas de Paris au dix-huitième siècle,” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 56, no. 3 (2009)
  • “What is the Law if not the Expression of the Rights of Man and Reason? The Champ de Mars Massacre and the Language of Law,” Law and History Review 19, no. 2 (2001): 283-310
Janine Marie Lanza

Courses taught by Janine Marie Lanza

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Fall Term 2022

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