Dr. Julie Hardwick

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Julie Hardwick is the John E. Green Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Distinguished Teaching Professor. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1991. Her research focuses on the intersections of legal, economic, and social family and gender history in early modern France. Her current book project explores the intimate history of racial capitalism in the context of an eighteenth-century French slaving port. Hardwick has published several significant works, including 'Sex in the Old Regime City: Young Workers’ Intimacy in France, 1660-1789', 'Practice Patriarchy: Gender Politics and Household Authority in Early Modern France' (1998), and 'Family Business: Litigation, Political Economy, and Daily Life in Early Modern France' (2009). She has contributed essays to numerous edited collections and articles in prestigious journals such as the American Historical Review and Journal of Social History. Julie has held distinguished fellowships, including a year-long research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a distinguished visiting research scholar at the University of Uppsala in 2014. She is the founding director of the Institute for Historical Studies at UT and is dedicated to integrating research with teaching, supporting a wide range of undergraduate research initiatives.

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