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‘It looks like a garter to me’: Students, slow research, and the long history of young couples’ intimacy

by JULIE HARDWICK This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? What can a pink silk ribbon with a beadwork message JE M’ELOIGNE SANS ME’EN SEPARER (translated, “I’m going away but not leaving you”) tell us about young people’s relationships in eighteenth-century French history? As an historian,… read more 

ABOUT JULIE HARDWICK

Julie Hardwick is the John E. Green Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. She grew up in the UK and has lived in Austin for over 25 years with her husband and daughters. Her new book is Sex and an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 (Oxford University Press, 2020).

ABOUT ESTER HARRISON

Ester Harrison is the Registrar for Art Loans and Exhibitions at the Harry Ransom Center, where she has served on several committees, including those tasked with renovation planning, deaccessioning, NAGPRA compliance, and updating procedures into modern standards and practices of collections and exhibits stewardship. She has a master’s degree in Anthropology and Museum studies from UW-Milwaukee, where she assisted with the NAGPRA initiative at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and continues to serve as an AAM-Museum Assessment Program Peer Reviewer where she has consults to smaller art museums in their efforts to attain national accreditation. She has worked as registrar for more than 700 exhibitions.

ABOUT JULIA ELSKY

Julia Elsky is Assistant Professor of French at Loyola University Chicago. A chapter of her book, Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France (Stanford University Press, 2020), focuses on Jean Malaquais and is based on her research at the Harry Ransom Center.