Hannah Frydman, Assistant Professor of French Studies, has recently been awarded the triennial Bailey Prize for Best Journal Article by The New York State Association of European Historians. The Association held its 73rd annual meeting on October 13-14, 2023 and announced the award as part of this meeting.
Dr.Frydman won the award for “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and the Politics of Reading in Third Republic France,” which was published in French Historical Studies in 2021. In this article, Dr. Frydman analyzes the history of legislative efforts to stamp out classified ads for sex work and abortion in the Third Republic, and the long-term consequences of those efforts: on the 1920 prohibition of birth control, the 1939 Family Code, and more recent attempts to sanitize internet activity.
The New York State Association of European Historians awards the triennial Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize for the best article in history produced by a member of the Association and carries a $500 prize.The prize was established in the 1990s, and renamed in 2002 in memory of Charles Randall “Randy” Bailey (1938-2000), a past president of the Association. Bailey was a Distinguished Service Professor in the History Department of SUNY Geneseo from the late 1960s until his death in the early 2000s. His scholarship focused on the eighteenth century, and he published a number of articles on municipal government and education in France during the early Revolution.
More information about Hannah Frydman’s research can be found on her website profile.