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Our Faculty:

Holly Grout
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2008

hlgrout@bama.ua.edu

Fall 2011 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.; by appointment.

Teaching and Research Interests:
History of Modern France
History of Women and Gender
Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Europe
History of the Body
History of Consumption and Consumer Culture
History of Beauty and Fashion

Courses Taught:
Western Civilization since 1648 (HY 102)
European Consumer Society 1700-present
Honors Western Civilization (1648-present)
History of Modern France (1760-present)
European Women and Gender History (1750-present)
European Gender History (graduate course)
Undergraduate Research Seminar: Long 19^th Century
Literature of European History (graduate course)

Recent Publications:
Book Reviews for: Feminist Collections, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and French Politics, Culture, and Society.

Article in Progress:

Current Project:

"Beauty Marks: the Production, Practice, and Performance of Femininity in France, 1880-1939” (book length project).
My current project explores the dynamic relationship between beauty and French feminine identity in the years 1880-1939. Specifically, I investigate how beauty products, practices, and discourses provided women with tools for both reinforcing and challenging established gender norms and for imagining new identities. The project has been supported by an Institut d'ėtudes politiques (Sciences Po)–University of Wisconsin exchange fellowship, a grant-in-aid from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, the Janet Hyde Award for studies in gender in the social sciences, the Mary Washburn Willets Award for women’s studies, the Martha L. Edwards Fellowship for gender studies, and a University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department – Minna Grotophorst Willis Scholarship, UA Research Grants Committee Award.

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