Bibliographic record
Abstract
Preparing this issue, which marks the 50 th anniversary of the Western Society for French History's founding, provided our team with a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the past, present, and future of the Society, and the field more broadly.As we set the editorial direction for this volume, we developed features that highlight all that the Society has accomplished over the last five decades.We also wanted to connect that past to the many challenges faced by today's scholars of French and Francophone history in a political and professional landscape that is ever changing.As always, we seek to balance the journal's traditional mission to publish the work of the Society's members with our engagé.e.s editorial mission.Volume 50 features three articles that showcase the range of research conducted by WSFH members across themes and time periods.Jun Huang returns to an infamous poisoning plot that scandalized the musical establishment of Louis XIV's France.Shifting attention away from the principals to the mask maker Jacques Ducreux, Huang uses court records to provide insight into the world of the Parisian artisans who crafted masks, costumes, instruments, and other items for the Paris stage.E. Claire Cage also examines judicial records in her examination of legal debates over childhood and sexuality in colonial Algeria.Drawing on assize court cases of child sexual assault, Cage demonstrates how the courts sexualized North African children and denied them status as minors under the law.In her article on family planning in postcolonial Tunisia, Hannah Olsen compares two studies produced by French medical students employed at a natal health clinic in Sfax.Olsen demonstrates how these reports reflected the persistence of colonial ideologies in medical schools, and the ways these different perspectives aligned with the priorities of the Tunisian government.Taken together, these articles show the extraordinary archival breadth and methodological richness at work in contemporary French historical studies.In the last volume of JWSFH, we introduced new editorial features to provide space for scholars to address the institutional and political contexts that shape French and Francophone studies, and the larger professional terrain of humanistic research and teaching.For this volume's "Interventions" -a forum in which colleagues can respond to emerging and developing issues and events-our colleagues Sarah Horowitz, Jacqueline Couti, Corinne Gressang, Terrence Peterson, and Kristin Ringleberg have kindly permitted us to publish a written version of their 2023 virtual discussion, "The Politics of French History in Times of Crisis."Reflecting on teaching and researching French history
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.152 | 0.137 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".