Deirdre Lyons

Deirdre Lyons

@deirdrelyons.bsky.social

Assistant Instructional Professor of History, University of Chicago. Historian of gender in the French Atlantic empire. Always seeking a cozy detective novel and a good 🍷

82 Followers 94 Following 2 Posts Joined Jun 2025
8 months ago

Delighted to announce that my most recent article, β€œβ€˜She Made Her Belly Disappear’: A Microhistory of Slavery and Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century Martinique” has just been published in the June 2025 issue of Critical Historical Studies (University of Chicago Press)

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9 months ago

Thank-you @robtaber.bsky.social for sharing my work for OI25!

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9 months ago

Ok, this is really cool: @deirdrelyons.bsky.social is looking at the family networks that (some) mixed race children had on their mother's side, which mattered as the French government liberalized laws regarding manumission in the 1830s and 1840s. #OI2025

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