“Superbly researched, energetically argued, and extremely well written… One ends by admiring the quality and breadth of Pichichero's research, which has triumphantly placed the conduct of war squarely within the domain of the Enlightenment, and indeed turned 'military enlightenment' from an oxymoron into a truism.”

Colin Jones, review in French Studies

THE Military Enlightenment

Finalist for the Oscar Kenshur Book Prize

for best interdisciplinary book in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Available in ebook and paperback through Cornell University Press and other booksellers.

Translations:

Mandarin: China Renmin University Press (2023)

Russian: Academic Studies Press (2024)

Recent publications:

—“Race, Revolution, and Celebrity: the Case of the Chevalier de Saint-George,” French Revolutionary Lives, eds. David A. Bell and Colin Jones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

—“Images and Imaginaries of Black Atlantic History: Chevalier (2022) and Joseph Bologne, the chevalier de Saint-George,” Imaginaries: Films Fictions and Other Representations of French-Speaking Worlds, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2024).

—“Race, Ethnicity, and War,” Oxford Bibliographies in Military History (Oxford University Press, October 2024).

-“Public Opinion and Empire: a Black Epistemological Approach,” Power on Trial: Public Opinion and Political Legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Era and its Modern Implications, eds. Robert Morrissey and Maximilien Novak (Classiques Garnier, 2024).

—“Antiracism and Regimes of Truth in Eighteenth-Century Studies,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Volume 63, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022), 131-135. Issue published in 2024.

-“Computation, Cultures, and Communities: Critical Digital Humanities for a Decolonizing Age,” Historical Reflections / Réflexions historiques, vol. 49, no. 3 (2023), 37-47.

-“Afrofeminist Microhistories and the Making of Modern Black French Identities,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol. 26 (2022).

-“‘Ma France, c'est Joséphine’: The Crucible of Race in French and Francophone Studies,” with Jennifer Boittin, Journal of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 48, 2022.

-“‘Is God Still French?’: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation of l'Exception Française," PMLA, Vol. 137, No. 1 (2022).

-“Critical Race Theory and the Multicultural French Enlightenment," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 49 (2020).

Winner, 2021 Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence

Dr. Christy Pichichero is a public intellectual and Associate Professor of History, French, and African and African American Studies at George Mason University. She earned her A.B. in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, her B.M. in Applied Music (Voice - Opera) from the Eastman School of Music, and her Ph.D. in French Studies from Stanford University. She is the Special Advisor to the President on Internationalism at GMU, the Vice President the International Commission on the History of the French Revolution, President of the Board of Trustees of Tudor Place, and Past President of the Western Society for French History.  

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