Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Fields of Study
- Economy, Technology and Society
Areas of Interest
Environmental History
Early Modern Europe and France
Economy, Technology, and Society
Water Histories
Political Economy
Biography
Constance de Font-Réaulx is a scholar of environmental history and early modern France. She is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and holds her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University (2022). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at the University of Toronto for two years (2022-2024).
Her research focuses on the commercialization and commodification of drinking water in early modern Paris. She examines debates over the governance of the supply of water when commercial and financial capitalism had begun transforming nature into a commodity. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Power of Water: The Politics of the Parisian Waterworks (1660-1850). Her work was published in peer-review journals and edited volumes. She is an assistant editor for the H-France Forum.
Her work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Education
Awards
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Owen Scholars Fellowship
- Johns Hopkins University Fred A. & Annarie P. Cazel Endowed Fellowship Johns Hopkins University