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Lauren Jannette is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She earned her BA in International Affairs and French from Kalamazoo College (2012), MA in History and Literature from Columbia University (2014), MA in War, Media, and Society from the University of Kent (2015), and PhD in History from The George Washington University (2022). She previously held positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Kenyon College (2023-5) and as an Adjunct Professor at Cultural Experiences Abroad in Paris.

Her research focuses on France's cultural and material history during the interwar period (1919-1939). Her dissertation and subsequent publications examined motifs of women and veterans in French pacifist propaganda from the First World War to the outbreak of the Second World War, focusing on how fascist and communist ideologies shaped artistic motifs and production methods. Her next research project investigates how women’s labor in the French interwar haute couture industry shaped urban development. She plans to explore how communities of Italian, Spanish, and Eastern European immigrant women lived and moved around Paris, focusing on the expansion of public transportation lines, housing developments, the creation of community “third spaces” for leisure and family activities, and their interactions with French women and “true” Parisians. This new project sits at the intersection of material and cultural studies, urban studies, women and gender studies, and labor history. She is also an avid fan of digital history technologies and is constantly looking for ways to integrate them into her research and teaching practices.

Awards and service

• 2025-Present: Board Member, Peace History Society
• 2024: Faculty Research Grant, Faculty Development Committee, Kenyon College 
• 2020: Shirley H. and Robert L. Richards Endowment Scholarship, The George Washington University
• 2019: Cosmos Scholar, The Cosmos Club Foundation 
• 2018: Albert H. Small Normandy Scholar, The George Washington University
• 2018: Charles Herber Prize for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, Department of History, The George Washington University

Publications

Books

• Gender and the Aesthetics of Peace: Women and Veterans in French Pacifist Propaganda,1915-1939. Brill (Expected Jan 2027)

Articles

• “Between Mourning and Hope: A Matricultural Reading of French Interwar Pacifist Art” Matrix (expected Mar 2027). 
• "Writing a PhD Thesis (On French Pacifism) during a Global Pandemic,” Munitions of the Mind: The Centre for History of War, Media and Society (Feb 1, 2023)
• “Hyphenated Identities: Exploring Ideas of Hybridity in Canadian and Australian First World War Recruitment Posters.” In Space, Place and Hybridity in the National  (Nov 11, 2021)
• Imagination, edited by Christine Vandamme and André Dodeman, 95-114. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2021)
• “From Horrors Past to Horrors Future: Pacifist War Art (1919-1939).” Arts: Special Issue “World War, Art, and Memory: 1914-1945,” vol. 9.3 (Sep 2020)
• “The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective.” The History News Network. (Feb 2019)
• “Teaching the First World War: The French and British Perspective in Comparison.” Journal 
• of Studies in History & Culture 3, vol. 3 (Fall-Winter 2018)
• “Remembering the Honorable Dead: The Tumultuous History of Armistice Day.” The Activist History Review (Nov 2017)