Articles, & Other Scholarship
Book chapters
“Practicing Kindness and Building Community In A World on Fire” in Cate Denial, ed., The Kind Academy (under advance contract with University of Oklahoma Press) (in progress)
“Trust Your Gut (But Not Too Much)” in Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw, eds., The Pocket Instructor: Writing: 50 Exercises for the College Classroom, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024).
“French Feminisms: Patriarchy, Populationism, and Progress, 1870-1950” in David Andress, ed., The Routledge Handbook of French History, (Routledge: New York, 2023).
Introduction and Chapter 9, “Gender, Immigration, and Social Citizenship” in Barton and Hopkins, eds., Practiced Citizenship: Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 2019).
“Work and Migration in the West, 1920-Present” in Daniel Walkowitz, ed., A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age (co-author with Andrew Hazelton), (Bloomsbury Press: London, 2018). (WINNER: Association of American Publishers PROSE Award)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Examining Race in the Classroom: Multicultural Education as a Model for White Racial Identity Awareness” (with Barry Goldenberg, manuscript in progress)
“From Ego Histoire to Personal Turn: Genealogies, New Inflections, and Interventions,” French Historical Studies: Special Issue (with Mita Choudhury, special issue for French Historical Studies, revise and resubmit)
“One Step at a Time: Making the Case For Faculty Pedagogical Development and a Roadmap for Getting There,” (with Zitsi Mirakhur), About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience (January 2025).
“Pushing the Boundaries: Power, Privilege, and the Problem of Inclusion,” Gender and History (Fall 2022)
“‘French or Foreign, So Long as They Be Mothers’: Immigrant Women, Pronatalism, and the Politics of Welfare in Interwar Paris,” Journal of Women’s History 28, 4 (Winter 2016): 65-88. (WINNER: Bi-Annual Graduate Student Article Prize from the Journal of Women’s History)
“Marrying Into the Nation: Immigrant Bachelors, French Bureaucrats and the Conjugal Politics of Naturalization During the Third Republic,” French Politics, Culture and Society (Winter 2016): 23-43.
Book Reviews
“Disintegrating Empire by Elise Franklin” for American Historical Studies (forthcoming 2025)
“Feminism’s Empire by Carolyn J. Eichner,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 42, 1 (August 2024).
“Rester catholique en France: L’encadrement religieux destiné aux migrants belgo-flamands du Lillois, de Paris et des campagnes françaises, 1850-1960 by Henk Byls,” H-France 20, 199 (November 2020).
“The Colonial Legacy in France: Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid edited by Nicolas Bancel, Pascale Blanchard, Dominic Thomas,” H-France 18, 136 (July 2018).
“L’Immigration ou les paradoxes de l’altérité, Vol. 3: La Fabrication des identités culturelles by Abdelmalek Sayad,” French Politics, Culture and Society: Between France and Algeria: The Social History of Algerians in the Twentieth Century 34, 2 (fall 2016): 142-146.
Public Humanities
Public History
“Educating Women: A History of Elevation – And Backlash,” Ms. Magazine: Special Issue on Higher Education (forthcoming April 2026)
“The DEI Debacle: How University Leaders Are Making the Same Mistakes” The Teaching Professor Special Issue: The Best of the 2025 Teaching Professor Conferences, October 2025. Reprinted in AAUP Academe Blog, February 2026.
“The Immigrant Dilemma: Between Carceral State and Welfare State,” Cornell University Press Blog, September 2020.
Online Resources and Research Databases
An Online Companion to A Just Future, https://www.drnimishabarton.com/just-future-companion, published July 2024, last revised October 2025.
“The Job Market in French and Francophone History (2015-2024),” (with Nick Underwood, Christina Carroll, and Meredith Scott) Western Society for French History, June 2024.
An Online Statistical Appendix to Reproductive Citizens, https://www.drnimishabarton.com/reproductive-citizens-appendices, published October 2020.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education
“Resilient Resistance: Sustaining DEI Efforts During A Time of Crisis” (with Katherine Penn), Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, July 23, 2024.
“Op-Ed: What We’re Missing in the Harm and Trauma Discourse,” Inside Higher Ed, August 17, 2023.
“Is Momentum for Equity and Justice Work Waning?”(with Regan Galvan) National Association for Independent Schools (NAIS) Independent School Magazine (Winter 2022).
“Whiteness at Work: On the Use and Abuse of ‘Radical Candor’ in K-12 Schools,” Teaching While White, February 26, 2021.
“Online Exclusive: No Time for Healing: Decentering Whiteness in Multiracial Community Dialogues,” National Association for Independent Schools (NAIS) Independent School Magazine, Winter 2021. *Top 50 most read magazine articles since Winter 2020
“Talking About Inclusive Teaching,” French History Network (FHN), August 2021. *#1 most read blog post in the FHN Inclusive Pedagogy series
“On Students, Diversity, and Mentorship,” H-France Salon, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and the Study of France and the Francophone World 12, 1 (January 2020): 1-4.
Reviewer, Scholarly Journals & Presses
Berghahn Books
French History
Gender and History
International Labor and Working-Class History