Darcie Fontaine

Darcie Fontaine is a historian of the French Empire.

Diary: Florida under DeSantis

Darcie Fontaine, 19 October 2023

In​ the summer of 2011, I moved with my husband from New York City to Tampa, Florida. We had just finished graduate school and there were very few jobs going for academics. I was resigned to going back home to Wyoming, when I got a call offering me a two-year position as a visiting assistant professor at the University of South Florida, a large public university. I had never been to Florida,...

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