In August 2022 we handed over the editorship of French Historical Studies to its ninth team in its sixty-five-year history. Christine Haynes (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Jennifer Heuer (University of Massachusetts Amherst) have taken the helm, bringing new expertise and energy to FHS. They will benefit from the experience of our managing editor, Laura Foxworth, and from the excellent staff at Duke University Press, especially the head of journals publishing, Rob Dilworth. FHS, then, is in good hands.
When we started in this role in 2014, we anticipated some of the priorities that have shaped FHS's last eight years. In our first editors' note, we wrote that we looked forward to expanding the “parameters of what it means to do ‘French’ history.”1 Certainly, FHS now has a more global orientation than it once did. Our tables of contents reflect a growing interest in...
