Carolyn Eichner
- Professor, History
- Professor, Women's & Gender Studies
Education
- PhD, Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA, Modern European History, Northern Illinois University
Teaching Schedule
| Course Num | Title | Meets |
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| HIST 850-001 | Colloquium on European History: France's Revolutionary Century | T 4pm-6:40pm |
| WGS 501-001 | Advanced Humanities Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies: Gender and Imperialism: Historical Perspectives | R 2:30pm-5:10pm |
| WGS 501G-001 | Advanced Humanities Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies: Gender and Imperialism: Historical Perspectives | R 2:30pm-5:10pm |
Courses Taught
- HST 242: Women and Gender in Europe – 1750-the Present
- HST 355: Modern & Contemporary France
- HST 468: The History of U.S. Feminisms
- HST 850: France’s Revolutionary Century
- HST 950: Women, Gender, & Sexuality in European Revolutions
- WGS 201: Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies
- WGS 303: Feminist Activism & Movements - The History of Feminism in the U.S.
- WGS 500: Advanced Social Science Seminar: Gender, Sexuality and Imperialism
- WGS 700: Feminist Issues and Scholarship: Power & Resistance
Research Interests
- Gender, Women & Sexuality in 19th-Century France & Empire
- Gender, Sexuality, & Imperialism
- Anti-Imperialisms
- Citizenship, Gender, & Race
- Histories of Feminisms
- The Paris Commune
- New Caledonia
- Politics of Names & Naming
Related Activities
Fellowships, Grants, & Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanitis (NEH) Public Scholar Award, 2025.
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Fulbright Research Scholar, France (Paris), 2022-2023
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Camargo Foundation Fellow, Spring 2023
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Research Team Member, The Politics of Reason (POLSON)
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4-year grant, funded by Convocatoria 2020—Proyectos de I+D+I, Ministry of Science & Innovation, Government of Spain, 2021-2025
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- Office of Research /UWM Foundation Research Award, UWM, 2021-2022
- Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, 2020-2021
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2015-2016
Professional Service
- International Federation for Research in Women’s & Gender History, Board Member, 2015-2020, 2020-2025
- Western Society for French History, President, 2014-2015; Vice-President, 2013-2014
- French Historical Studies, Editorial Board Member, 2013-2016
- Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820, Collaborating Editor, 2015-2018.
Biographical Sketch
Carolyn J. Eichner is a feminist historian specializing in modern France and the intersections of empire, gender, race, and political radicalism. A recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award, she was also a 2022-2023 Fulbright Research Scholar in France (Paris), and has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France; and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Eichner is the author of Feminism’s Empire (Cornell University Press, 2022), The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Rutgers University Press, 2022), and Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Indiana University Press, 2004), which, translated into French as Franchir les barricades: Les femmes dans la Commune de Paris (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 Prix Augustin Thierry. She is currently writing two books: Louise Michel: A Revolutionary Life, a spatial biography of the 19th-century revolutionary anarchist feminist, and The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship, examining the politics and cultures of personal names.