French Historical Studies

Editorial Office:
Christine Haynes, Coeditor
Department of History
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
french.historical.studies@gmail.com

The journal does not accept books for review.

Editors:
Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Managing Editor:
Laura Foxworth

Editorial Board:
Paul Cohen, University of Toronto
Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University
Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles
Gillian Glaes, University of Montana
Mette Harder, SUNY Oneonta
Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, CUNY
Johannes Heuman, Jönköping University, Sweden
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University
Ethan Katz, University of California, Berkeley
Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College
William Max Nelson, University of Toronto
Dominique Rogers, Université des Antilles, Martinique
Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology
Caroline Séquin, Lafayette College
Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University
Sarah Sussman, Stanford University
Junko Takeda, Syracuse University
Elizabeth Tingle, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Clémentine Vidal-Naquet, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous relations in the French Americas. Submit by August 31, 2026. View the full call for papers in English or French.

To submit an article for the special issue or for any other issue, please visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-fhs. If this is your first time using ScholarOne, you will need to create an account.  Submit your manuscript, following the instructions on the site. Articles may be submitted in English or French and should be typed double-spaced, including footnotes (not endnotes), block quotes, and tables. To ensure anonymity, the author's name should not appear on the title page or in the body of the manuscript. Please follow The Chicago Manual of Style, eighteenth edition, and the journal's style guide. Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words in length (excluding footnotes). The journal asks authors to cite a diverse range of authors wherever possible, particularly women and scholars of color whose work may have been historically overlooked. Please address any questions or other editorial correspondence to the editors, Christine Haynes and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, at french.historical.studies@gmail.com.

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Please note that the journal does not publish book reviews.

Information for authors:
• Style guide

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