Elizabeth Ann Heath

Education

Ph.D., Modern European History, University of Chicago Chicago USA

M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago Chicago USA

B.A., Political Science and Women's Studies, New College of Florida Sarasota USA

Books

Heath, E. (2014). Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France: Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870-1910. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

Heath, E. (2022). Marx, Frankenchickens, and the Logic of Capitalism: Rethinking Spellbound Histories in a Time of Crises. History of the Present, 12(2). 271-282.

(2022). If Objects Could Speak: Tales of Race and Empire at Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party. H-France Salon Special Issue on Rethinking Race and Representation in Art History and Material Culture of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Francosphere. , 14(8).

Heath, E. (2020). The Meaning of Freedom: Slave Self-Purchase and the Making of Free Labour in Martinique. French History, 34(3). 342-359.

Heath, E. (2019). "The Black Race's Dreyfus Affair": Hégésippe Jean Légitimus and the Dissimilation of Colonial Guadeloupe. French Historical Studies, 42(3). 261-294.

Heath, E. (2018). Sugarcoated Slavery: Colonial Commodities and the Education of the Senses in Early Modern France. Critical Historical Studies, 5(2). 169-207.

Heath, E. (2018). Shoot Out in the O.K. Corral: Revisiting the Méline Tariff in an Age of Global Trade War. Europe Now , ( 20).

Heath, E., & White, O. (2018). L'empire français: Histoire de la vie économique. Revue Juridique Politique et Économique de Nouvelle-Calédonie , 30(1). 201-216.

Heath, E. (2017). The Color of French Wine: Southern Wine Producers Respond to Competition from the Algerian Wine Industry in the Early Third Republic. French Politics, Culture, and Society, 35(2). 89-110.

Heath, E., & White, O. (2017). The French Empire and the History of Economic Life. Introduction for Dossier on Wine, Economy, and Empire. French Politics, Culture, and Society, 35(2). 76-88.

Heath, E. (2015). Albums of Empire: Photography, Collective Memory, and the British Raj. Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 27. 74-103.

Heath, E. (2014). Child's Play? Colonial Commodities, Ephemera, and the Construction of the Greater French Family. CLIO. Femmes, Genres, Historie. Objets et fabrication du genre, 40/2 English Edition. 69-87.

Heath, E. (2014). Apprendre l'Empire, un jeu d'enfants? (premier XXe siècle). CLIO. Femmes, Genres, Histories. Objets et fabrication du genre, 40/2. 69-87.

Heath, E. (2011). Creating Rural Citizens in Guadeloupe in the Early Third Republic. Slavery & Abolition, 32(2). 289-307.

Heath, E. A., & Landweber, J. Sea of Numbers: The Perils of Trusting Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean Censuses. French History (Special issue on Dirty Data), In Progress.

Book Chapters

(2024). Wine and Spaces of Consumption. A Cultural History of Wine in the Age of Empire

Heath, E. A. (2022). Apprendre l’Empire, un jeu d’enfants? (Premier XXe siècle). In Thomas, D., Bancel, N., Blanchard, P., & Lemaire, S. (Eds.), Histoire globale de la France coloniale Paris. Éditions Philippe Rey.

Heath, E. (2020). Toys. In Achille, E., Forsdick, C., & Moudileno, L. (Eds.), Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France (pp. 394-402). Liverpool. Liverpool University Press.

Heath, E. (2015). Citizens of Empire? Indentured Labor, Global Capitalism, and the Limits of Republicanism in Colonial Guadeloupe. In Donoghue, J., & Jennings, E. (Eds.), Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor, the State, and the Rise of Global Capitalism, 1500-1945 (pp. 160-179). Leiden,The Netherlands. Brill Publishers.

Heath, E. A. Visualizing Colonial Dispossession: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Imperial Impressionism and the Art of Empire. In Burns, E., & Price, A. M. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Art and Empire: Imperialism and Aesthetic Practices, 1800-1950

Economies. The Cambridge Companion to the French Empire In Progress.

Presentations

Heath, E. A. (2025, January 2). Economic Refugee: France, the United Nations, and a Troubled Concept. American Historical Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY: American Historical Association. In Progress.

Heath, E. A. (2025, September 2). Visualizing Dispossession: Renoir and the Art of Imperial Impressionism. Workshopping Future Directions in Impressionism. London, UK and online

Heath, E. A. Dressed in Blue Painted Handkerchiefs with Tiny Flowers: Slavery, Interstitial Spaces, and the Development of the French Cotton Industry. Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting. Hampstead, New York: Society for French Historical Studies.

Heath, E. A. (2025, May 2). An Intimacy Based on Invisibility: Food and Drink Ritual in Colonial Algeria. French Colonial Historical Society Annual Meeting. Charlottesville, VA: French Colonial Historical Society.

Heath, E. A. (2025, November 2). Future Imaginaries: Cocoa, Bean-Counters, and the End of Empire. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. A. (2025, March 2). Bridging the Economic, Social, and Cultural (with a little help from Emma Bovary): Food and the Study of the French Colonial Empire. From Text to Table: Borders and Boundaries in Food History. Online: UC-Santa Barbara.

Heath, E. A. (2025, November 2). Vanishing Points: Dispossession, Poverty, and the Unmaking of the Algerian Working Class. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. A. (2025, November 2). Visualizing the Data of the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. (2021, May 31). Imaging a Post-Imperial Future: Cocoa, Migration, and the Cultivation of the Post-War Order in French West Africa. Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics. Santa Barbara (via Zoom): University of California, Santa Barbara.

N/A, E., & Landweber, J. (2021, March 31). Visualizing the Data of the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. Society for French Historical Studies. Virtual Meeting

Heath, E. (2020, February 28). Guinée Cloth, Wage Slavery, and Colonial Commodities. New Political Economies of the French Empire, 19th-20th Centuries. New York City, NY: Columbia University.

Heath, E. (2025, October 2). Dressed in Gingham and Flowered Handkerchiefs, or Writing a Global History of French Caribbean Slave Clothing. History Workshop, University of Delaware. Newark, DE: History Department, University of Delaware.

Heath, E., & Landweber, J. (2019, December 31). Visualizing the Data of the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. New York Area French History Group.

Heath, E. (2019, October 31). Comment for Rethinking Rural France in the Nineteenth Century Panel. Western Society for French History. Bozeman, MT

Heath, E., & Landweber, J. (2019, October 31). Visualizing the Data of the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. Western Society for French HIstory. Bozeman, MT

Heath, E. (2018, March 31). Visualizing Erasure: Sugar, Slavery, and the Rise of Atlantic Capitalism. Weissman Global Seminar. : Baruch College.

Heath, E. (2018, March 31). Comment for Slavery and Economic Life in the French Atlantic World Panel. Society for French Historical Studies. Pittsburg

Heath, E. (2018, March 31). Using GIS for Historical Mapping Projects. GIS in the Humanities Seminar. : Montclair State University.

Heath, E. (2025, November 2). Rethinking the Cotton Revolution In Saint-Domingue. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Portland, ME: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. (2018, November 30). Comment for Hide and Seek: Uncovering the Politics of Playtime Panel. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Portland, ME: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. (2017, April 30). Between the Swastika and the Sickle: Reforming Rural Life in la Plus Grande France in an Age of New Global Empire. Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.: Society for French Historical Studies.

Heath, E. (2017, November 30). Sugarcoated Fantasies: Colonial Commodities and the Education of the Senses in Early Modern France. New York Area French History Group.

Heath, E. (2017, June 30). Indigo, Coffee, and Sugar: Visualizing Race Making in Colonial Saint Domingue through Shifting Commodity Frontiers. Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences GIS Institute. Providence, RI

Heath, E. (2017, May 31). Proximate Distance: Seeing Sugar and Slavery in Eighteenth Century France. Providence, RI: John Carter Brown Library.

Heath, E. (2016, February 28). Producing Empire, Consuming Empire: Colonial Commodities and Everyday Life in Modern France. NYU Institute of French Studies. New York: New York University.

Heath, E. (2016, April 30). Standardizing French Wine in an Age of Global Competition. Business History Conference Annual Meeting. Portland, OR: Business History Conference.

Heath, E. (2016, November 30). Visualizing Colonial Trade and Commodities in Early Modern Paris. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Cedar Rapids, IA

Heath, E. (2016, May 31). Andrew Alf Heggoy Prize Panel: A Conversation about Elizabeth Heath's Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France. French Colonial Historical Studies Annual Meeting. Ottawa, Canada: French Colonial Historical Studies.

Heath, E. (2015, December 31). From Wine and Sugar to Cultural Commodities. Seminar on European Imperialism. Beersheba, Israel: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Heath, E. (2015, August 31). Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century. History of Capitalism Workshop. : University of Georgia.

Heath, E. (2015, April 30). The Path That Led Me to Hybridization. Eighteenth Annual Teaching and Technology Conference. : Baruch College.

Heath, E. (2015, March 31). Cooking with the Colonies: Domestic Science, Empire, and the Making of the Modern French Home. Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Boston, MA

Heath, E. (2014, November 30). Turkey Talk: A History of Thanksgiving's Iconic Meal. History Club at Baruch College.

Heath, E. (2013, October 31). Whiteness Redefined: Descriptions of Sugar and the Production of Race in Saint-Domingue in the Eighteenth Century. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. (2013, April 30). The Color of French Wine: Metropolitan Wine Producers Respond to Competition from Algerian Viticulture. Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting. Boston, MA: Society for French Historical Studies.

Heath, E. (2013, March 31). The Celery Plate: Using Material Objects as Historical Sources. Wolfsonian-FIU Graduate Student Workshop on Visual and Material Culture. Miami Beach, FL: Wolfsonian Museum-Florida International University.

Heath, E. (2013, February 28). French Identity in the Interwar: How We Can Use Film and Fairs As Sources. European Studies Capstone Seminar. Miami, FL: Florida International University.

Heath, E. (2013, January 31). Bittersweet: Sugar Policy in France during the Great Depression of the Late Nineteenth Century. American Historical Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA: American Historical Association.

Heath, E. (2011, February 28). Negotiating Frenchness: The Méline Tariff in Guadeloupe and Martinique. Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting. Charleston, SC: Society for French Historical Studies.

Heath, E. (2011, June 30). Beet vs. Cane: Writing a Global History of a Sugar Island's Decline. Feeding and Clothing the World: Cash Crops and Global History. Washington D.C.: German Historical Institute.

Heath, E. (2011, November 30). Reclaiming French Roots in the Aftermath of the Midi Strikes of 1907. Western Society for French History Annual Meeting. Portland, OR: Western Society for French History.

Heath, E. (2010, November 30). ''The Best School for Our Antillean Population": The Struggle for Military Service in Colonial Guadeloupe, 1880-1914. Social Sciences History Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL: Social Sciences History Association.

Heath, E. (2010, June 30). The Doubled Nature of French Assimilation. Unfree Labor and the Atlantic Empires Conference. Chicago, IL: Loyola University-Chicago.

Heath, E. (2010, April 30). Forget the Siamese Cats: Lady and the Tramp and the Articulation of a New World Order. Peculiar Institutions. Chicago, IL: Society of Fellows, University of Chicago.

Heath, E. (2009, April 30). Defining Colonial Citizenship in Guadeloupe. Worldmaking. Chicago, IL: Society of Fellows, University of Chicago.

Heath, E. (2009, March 31). Agricultural Education and the Creation of Skilled Farmers in the Aude. Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO: Society for French Historical Studies.

Heath, E. (2008, September 30). Citizenship, Labor, and Assimilation in Colonial Guadeloupe. Commodities of Empire Workshop. London, United Kingdom: British Academy.

Heath, E. (2008, April 30). Contested Commemorations: Celebrating Victor Schoelcher in Guadeloupe during the early Third Republic. Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting. New Brunswick, NJ: Society for French Historical Studies.

Heath, E. (2007, October 31). Rethinking the Countryside in fin-de-siècle France. Seminar in Rural History. Chicago, IL: Newberry Library.

Heath, E., & Austen, R. (2007, May 31). Imperial Nations or Separate Spheres? The Significance of Colonialism in British and French Domestic History. Empires and their Contested Pasts: 28th Irish Conference of Historians. Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK: Queen's University.

Heath, E. (2007, January 31). Union Member and Citizen. American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA: American Historical Association.

Heath, E. (2006, November 30). Memory, Slavery, and Citizenship in Guadeloupe. Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting. Birmingham, AL: Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.

Reviews

Heath, E. A. (1970,January 1). Review of Coconut: A Global History by Mary Newman and Constance L. Kirker. H-Environment.

Heath, E. A. (2025,November 2). Review of The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies by Yan Slobodkin. Journal of Vietnamese History.

Heath, E. A. (2025,May 2). Review of A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by David Todd. Histoire sociale/Social History.

Heath, E. (2025,January 2). Review of Alternative Agriculture in Europe (sixteenth-twentieth centuries), edited by Gérard Béaur. H-France.

Heath, E. (2021,June 1). Review of Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti by Johnhenry Gonzalez. American Historical Review.

Heath, E. (2020,June 1). Review of The Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France by Joseph Bohling. Journal of Modern History.

Heath, E. (2019,June 1). Review of Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean by Christopher Church. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids.

Heath, E. (2018,April 1). Review of Why Europe Conquered the World by Philip Hoffman. H-France Review.

Heath, E. (2018,October 1). Review of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire by Lorelle Semley. American Historical Review.

Heath, E. (2018,June 1). Review of Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean by Kristen Stromberg Childers. Journal of Modern History.

Heath, E. (2017,December 1). Review of L’Autre citoyen. L’idéal républicain et les Antilles après l’esclavage by Silyane Larcher . Journal of Modern History.

Heath, E. (2017,July 1). Review of Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France by Dana Simmons. Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire.

Heath, E. (2016,September 1). Review of Colonial Food in Interwar Paris: The Taste of Empire by Lauren Janes. Global Food History.

Heath, E. A. (1970,January 1). Review of The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France by Catherine Dunlop. International Journal of Maritime History. In Progress.

Research Currently in Progess

Heath, E.(n.d.). Book-Length Manuscript: Invisible Empires: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Making of the Modern French Self, 1750-1950. In Progress.

Heath, E.(n.d.). Digital Project: Visualizing Colonial France in the Eighteenth Century. In Progress.

Heath, E., & Landweber, J.(n.d.). Digital Project: Visualizing the Data of the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean. In Progress.

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