Erik Braeden Lewis
Contact Information
Bio
Erik is a Doctoral Candidate under Dr. Rafe Blaufarb and a member of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. His dissertation, “The Émigré Homefront: The Gendered Politics of Migration to Spain during the French Revolution,” studies the French émigrés and their lived experience using microhistorical methods to nuance the narratives of the French Revolution and of migration. Specifically, the project handles French émigrés who migrated to Spain and the Spanish Empire during the fourth wave of French Revolution migration—as well as the family members who strategically chose to stay in France—looking at the intersection of gender and politics as a critical point for understanding decision-making and identity construction processes during the turmoil of migration, war, and family upheaval.
Fields
Major Field: French Revolution and Napoleon
Minor Fields: Early Modern Europe, Modern Middle East, Gender & Sexuality
Publications
Book Review
Hunt, Lynn and Jack R. Censer, The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World, for Nineteenth-Century French Studies, forthcoming.
Grants and Fellowships
2019
Archival Research and Conference Presentation Travel Grant
Masséna Society Dissertation Research Fellowship
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
FSU History Department
The Society for Military History, May
2018
INFR Fellowship, 2018-2019 Academic Funding
Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution
Archival Research and Conference Presentation Travel Grant
Masséna Society Dissertation Research Fellowship
2017
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
Congress of Graduate Students
Western Society for French History, November
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
FSU History Department
Western Society for French History, November
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
Congress of Graduate Students
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, February
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
FSU History Department
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, February
2016
Archival Research and Conference Presentation Travel Grant
Masséna Society Dissertation Research Fellowship
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
International Napoleonic Society
International Napoleonic Congress, July
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
Congress of Graduate Students
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, February
Conference Presentation Travel Grant
FSU History Department
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, February
2015
Ben Weider Fellowship, 2015-2016 Academic Funding
Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution
2011
Prothro-Perkins Foundation
General Academic Award
Prothro-Perkins Foundation
French Language Award
Conference Presentations
2017
Western Society for French History
Reno, Nevada, United States
“Citoyenne or Émigrée? The Countess du Barry in London, 1791-93”
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
Masséna Society Sponsored Panel
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
“Boarding School and Building an Empire: Napoleon and the Maisons d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur”
2016
International Napoleonic Society Congress
Dublin, Ireland
“Prostitution and the French Revolution: A Cultural and Legal Transformation”
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
“Sexual Regulation and the Legality of Prostitution in the Revolutionary Era”