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Posthumus fellow Dr Charris Desmet receives FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) has awarded a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr Charris De Smet, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History as well as affiliated to the Centre for Political History (PoHis) of the University of Antwerp. This fellowship is awarded to selected researchers who have recently obtained their doctorate and aim to pursue an independent research career.
Charris’ research project revisits female political agency in the mainstream, non-militant Parisian women’s press, and questions how fashion journals functioned as a forum for women editors and writers as well as a disenfranchised female readership to engage with politics between 1815 and 1851. Through an in-depth and comparative discourse analysis of a representative corpus of Parisian women’s magazines, Charris will examine how they engaged in ‘political communication’ under the innocent cover offered by the French fashion magazine during the Restoration, the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, on topics as diverse as citizenship, the nature of political authority and women’s access to the public sphere.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Charris with this grant.
