Dr.
Morag Martin
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
(585) 395-5690; Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 122 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: mmartin@brockport.edu
- Phd University of California, Irvine, August 1999
Dissertation: “Consuming Beauty: The Commerce of Cosmetics in France,
1750-1800”
- BA Bates College, Maine, 1991, Magna cum laude University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1989-90
- Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, University of Warwick, 2001-2.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Warwick, 1999.
- Ardiste and Harold Ladin Fellowship in History, UC Irvine, 1998.
- Humanities Summer Dissertation Writing Grant, UC Irvine, 1996.
- Humanities Graduate Student Teaching Award, UC Irvine, 1996.
- Early Modern Europe
- Modern European History
- Modern World History
- Comparitive Imperialism
- French Revolution
- Culture History of Drugs
Articles:
- "Doctoring Beauty: The Medical Control of Women's Cosmetics in
France, 1750-1810," in Medical History (Forthcoming, July
2005)
- "Casanova e Mlle. Clarion: Pintando o Rosto em um Mundo de Moda
Natural," in Fashion Theory: A Revista da Moda, Corpo e Cultura,
edição brasileira (2003).
- "Entrepreneur or charlatan? The commerce of cosmetics, patents
and the medical profession in France 1750-1830" in Les chemins
de la nouveauté: innover, inventer au regard de l'histoire, eds.
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez and Anne-Françoise Garçon
(Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 2003).
- "Casanova and Mlle. Clarion: Painting the Face in a World of
Natural Fashion," Fashion Theory Journal (April 2003).
- Personal Services Entry, Oxford Economic History Encyclopedia
(April 2003).
- Cosmetics Entry, Oxford Economic History Encyclopedia (April
2003).
- “Il n’y à que Maille qui m’aille: Advertisements and the Development
of Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century France,” Proceedings of the
Western Society for French History, Vol. 23 (1996): 114-121.
- Book review: Liliane Hilaire Perez, L'invention Technique au siecle
des Lumieres, in Economic History Review (Fall 2002).
- Book review: Vincent Barras, Micheline Louis-Courvoisier (eds.), La
Medecine des lumieres: Tout autour de Tissot, in Medical History
(October 2002).
- Book review: Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical
Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880's-1930's in Medical History,
April 2003.
- Book review: Patrice Higonnet, Goodness Beyond Virtue,
in The Times Higher Education Supplement (August 25,2000).
- Book review: Daniel Roche, A History of Everyday Things,
in Economic History Review (August 2000), Vol. 53:3.
- Book review: Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation
in 18th-century France, in Economic History Review (May 2001),
Vol. 24:2.
| Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations |
- "Domestic Harems: Images of the Orient in Cosmetic Advertisements,
1750-1815," Western Society for French Studies Conference, Newport
Beach, October 2003.
- "Natural and Pure Fashions: The Politics of Advertising Luxury
in France 1760-1800,"
International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los
Angeles, August 2003.
- "La publicité inventée: la création de remèdes
publics dans les archives médicales (1750-1815)," Les archives
de l'invention. Ecrits, objets et images de l'activité inventive,
des origins a nos jours, Centre National des Arts et Metiers, Paris,
May 2003.
- Doctoring Beauty: The Medical Control of Women's Toilettes in France,
1750-
1810," Oxford Wellcome Unit Medicine and Culture Seminar, Oxford,
July 2002.
- "Mlle Clarion's Wrinkles: Facing the Mirror in an Age of Natural
Beauty, " NYSAEH meeting, Canisius College, September 21, 2002.
- "Doctoring Beauty: The Medical Control of Women's Toilettes in
France, 1750-1810," Oxford Wellcome Unit Medicine and Culture Seminar,
Oxford, June 10, 2002.
- "A Taste for Rouge: The Demise of Cosmetics and the Ascendancy
of the Natural in Late Eighteenth-Century France" American Society
for Eighteenth Century Studies, Colorado Springs, April 2002.
- "The Great Masculine Renunciation: Coming to Terms with Male
Hair Loss in France, 1770-1830," Leeds University Eighteenth-Century
Group Seminar, Leeds, January 24, 2002.
- “Erasing the Other: Depictions of the Orient in French Luxury Advertisements
1750-1830,” Society for the Study of French History Conference, Sheffield,
April 2000.
- “Entrepreneur ou Charlatan? Le commerce de cosmétiques,
les brevets et la profession médicale en France, 1750-1830,”
Pratiques historiques de l’innovation XVe-XXe siècle, CNAM,
Paris, March 20, 2000.
- “Towards a Theory of Taste: Cosmetics and their Critics in
Eighteenth Century France,” Social and Economic History of Early Modern
Britain Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, February
18, 2000.
- Martin is currently working on transforming her dissertation into a book
entitled Consuming Beauty: The History of French Cosmetics 1750-1830.
- She has recently completed and submitted for publication an article on
male hair loss in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. In it she argues
that grooming for men remained essential in a period of sexual and economic
instability after the Revolution of 1789, despite calls for more masculine
and unaffected fashions.
