Steven Zdatny
Professor
Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1982
Teaching Fields:
Modern France, modern Europe, social history, Holocaust, World War I.
Research Fields:
Modern French social and cultural history
Research:
Having recently finished a history of the French hairdressing profession, a study of the links among work, business, and culture, and a lesson in the development of a modern consumer society, I am now in the opening stages of research on a history of public and personal hygiene, which will examine evolving practices and sensibilities of cleanliness in twentieth-century France.
Selected publications:
Books: The Politics of Survival: Artisans in Twentieth-Century France (1990) ed., Hairstyles and Fashion: A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920 (1999); Fashion, Work, and Politics in Modern France (Palgrave, 2006)
Selected Articles:
“Le comité d’organisation de la coiffure et la réorganisation de la profession, 1940-1945,” in Hervé Joly, ed., Les comités d’organisation et l’économie dirigée du régime de Vichy (Caen: Centre de recherche d’histoire quantitative, 2004), 121-34.
“Les artisans et le mirage corporatiste,” in Philippe Minard, ed., La France, malade du corporatisme? (Paris: Editions Belin, 2004), 327-54.
"Collaboration or Resistance: French Hairdressers and Vichy's Labor Charter," French Historical Studies 20:4 (Fall 1997): 737-72.
"The Boyish Look and the Liberated Woman: The Politics and Aesthetics of Women's Hairstyles," Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 1:4 (December 1997): 367-97.
Coiffeurs in Vichy France : Artisans and the 'National Revolution'," Contemporary European History 5:3 (November 1996): 371-99.
