Current Member
Hannah Frydman
Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Modern French History and Culture
Home institution
Harvard University
Website
Hannah Frydman is a cultural historian of modern France with a special interest in the ways textuality and sexuality intersect and interact. At the IAS, Frydman is working on a book exploring the relation between the circulation of "queer" fiction and the construction of queer lives in modern France.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Ph.D.
2020
Smith College
B.A.
2012
Honors
2026
Honorable Mention, 2024–2025 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, awarded every second year to an outstanding book in French social or cultural studies, NYU Institute of French Studies
2023-2024
American Council of Learned Societies Morton N. Cohen and Richard N. Swift Fellow
2023
Winner, Triennial Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize, New York State Association of European Historians
2022
Winner, Malcolm Bowie Prize, Society for French Studies
Appointments
Harvard University
2024
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Washington
2021–2024
Assistant Professor of French Studies
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University
2020–2021
Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender Studies