Gülru Çakmak, Jennifer Heuer Co-edit H-France Salon Special Issue on Race and Representation

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In the wake of widespread calls to decolonize institutional narratives of cultural heritage, two faculty members in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts – Gülru Çakmak, associate professor of the history of art and architecture, and Jennifer Heuer, associate professor of history – have served as editors for a special issue of the online journal H-France Salon titled “Rethinking Race and Representation in Art History and Material Culture of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Francosphere.”

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Published this summer, the pieces gathered in this publication—eight articles, two poems and an interview—collectively examine art historical and historical narratives that reproduce racialized and imperialist ways of seeing and organizing the world and the past. They also offer alternative pathways to reclaiming historical agency as well as reflecting on the economic and commercial aspects of representing race and colonialism.

H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French studies, including history, literature, cinema, art history, theory and culture. The latest issue edited by Çakmak and Heuer is available to view now on the H-France Salon website.