Katie Jarvis

Katie Jarvis is the Carl E. Koch Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Her first book, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, integrates politics, economics, and gender to ask how Parisian market women, called the Dames des Halles, invented notions of citizenship through their everyday trade. Winner of the 2020 Louis Gottschalk Prize and Finalist for the Berkshire Conference First Book Award, this book analyzes how marketplace actors shaped nascent democracy and capitalism and, in doing so, challenges the idea that the French Revolution launched an inherently masculine trajectory for modern citizenship. Her current project, Democratizing Forgiveness in Revolutionary France, explores how the revolutionaries refashioned forgiveness through economic, judicial, gendered, and cultural venues.