Professor of History Christine Adams was a guest on “The Royal Studies Podcast” on Feb. 9 in a roundtable discussion on royal mistresses and the important part they played in the French and English monarchies. Adams was joined by Tracy Adams, professor in European Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, her sister and co-author of “The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry" (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). Mirabelle Field, a PhD student at the University of Auckland, was also a participant in the discussion.
Christine Adams was a 2020–2021 fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and a 2021 Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Her current book project is titled “The Merveilleuses and their Impact on the French Social Imaginary, 1794-1799 and Beyond."
