Review of Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Leslie A. Wade, Robin Roberts, and Frank de Caro and Walking Raddy: The New Orleans Baby Dolls edited by Kim Vaz-Deville

Aurélie Godet is associate professor of US history at the Université de Paris (formerly Paris Diderot University). Since releasing a book on the Tea Party movement in 2012 (Le Tea Party: Portrait d’une Amérique désorientée), she has been working on the history of Louisiana and of festive practices in the United States. Her next volume will be a political history of New Orleans Mardi Gras from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. She was a Fulbright visiting researcher at Tulane University in 2018.