Cynthia A. Bouton

Cynthia A. Bouton is a Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. She specializes in early modern and Revolutionary Europe, with a focus on the Atlantic World and its interconnected histories. Her research examines how inequities in subsistence access, shaped by class, gender, race, and colonial dynamics, influenced societal responses to suffering and social violence.

Education: Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1985.

Research Interests: Atlantic World, French History, European Women and Gender Studies, European Social History, Revolutions, and Digital Humanities. She explores themes such as staple food production, marketplace interactions, colonial policies, and the cultural and political dimensions of food security. Her work bridges historical analysis with collaborative digital projects, such as aggregating data on food riots across the Atlantic World.

Publications reflect a sustained focus on food-related social conflicts, including studies on the 1775 French subsistence crisis and 19th-century French social violence. These works analyze how food shortages intersected with gender, class, and colonialism in shaping societal resilience and unrest.

Scientific Awards: None explicitly mentioned in the provided texts.

Advising/Grants: No student advisees or grant details are listed. She contributes to an international Digital Humanities Project on social conflict, aggregating datasets from the 17th century to the French Revolution era.

Labs/Teams: Active in an international collaborative Digital Humanities Project focused on creating a global database of food riots and social conflict.