Jessie Hewitt Ph.D.
She/Her/HersAbout
Jessie Hewitt is a historian of Modern Europe. She teaches classes on a wide variety of topics, including disability history, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of madness. Professor Hewitt's research concerns the historical relationship between disability and gender, especially the ways in which normative perceptions of masculinity and femininity shaped the practice of medicine and the experiences of those who encountered the medical system in nineteenth-and twentieth-century France.
Personal website: www.jessiehewitt.com
Education
- Ph.D. in History, University of California, Davis (2012)
- B.A. in History, University of California, Santa Cruz (2003)
Publications
Book—
"Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France" (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020).
“Disability history in France: past, present and future,” with Rebecca P Scales, Jérôme Bas, Gildas Brégain, Jonathyne Briggs, Catherine J Kudlick, and Sun-Young Park, French History (March 2024).
“Married to the ‘Living Dead’: Madness as a Cause for Divorce in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2015).
"Women Working 'Amidst the Mad': Domesticity as Psychiatric Treatment in Nineteenth-Century Paris," French Historical Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2015).
“The Politics of Madness,” Cultural History of Madness (Vol. 4, The Age of Revolutions) edited by Jonathan Sadowski and Chiara Thumiger (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024).
“Sex, Secrets, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Histories of French Sexuality from the Enlightenment to the Present edited by Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross (University of Nebraska Press, 2023).
Awards and service
- Outstanding Faculty Research Award (University of Redlands) 2021.
- Graves Award in the Humanities (administered by the American Council of Learned Societies & Pomona College), 2020.
- IES Abroad Research Grant (Paris, France), 2018.
- Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award (Contemporary French Civilization), 2014.
- Edward T. Gargan Prize (Western Society for French History), 2012.
- Marjorie M. Farrar Memorial Award (Society for French Historical Studies), 2011.