Sarah Horowitz

Education

• Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
• M.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
• B.A. in History and Art History, summe cum laude, Wellesley College, 1999

Teaching

I teach classes on French history since the seventeenth century to the present, as well as the history of gender and sexuality in modern Europe. I also teach courses on crime and scandal and Parisian life and history.

Selected Publications

• “Sexing the Republic: The Sexual Politics of the Steinheil Affair of 1908-1909,” in Histories of French Sexuality: Enlightenment to the Present, ed. Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
  
  
• "The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris - and the Woman Behind it All," (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2022)
  
  
• “Scandalous Friendships: The Dangers of Intimacy in the Steinheil Affair of 1908-1909,” Romanic Review, 101, no. 1-4 (May 2019)
  
  
• “The End of Love: Politics, Emotions and Domestic Violence in the Choiseul-Praslin Affair,” Journal of Family History, vol. 42, no. 4 (October 2017) 
  
  
• “Foucault’s Panopticon — A Model for NSA Surveillance?” in Privacy and Power: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the Shadow of the NSA-Affair, ed. Russell Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
  
  
• with Brandon Walsh, Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook, 2016
  
  
• “Luxe, amour et transactions: La Culture des bijoux dans l’Ancien Régime,” Sociétés et Représentations, no. 38 (Fall 2014)
  
  
• "Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France" (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2013)
  
  
• "Policing and the Problem of Privacy in Restoration-Era France, 1815-30," French History 27, no. 1 (January 2013)
  
  
• "The Bonds of Concord and the Guardians of Trust: Women, Emotion, and Political Life, 1815-1848,"French Historical Studies 35, no. 3 (Summer 2012)