University Of Birmingham

Faculty Member, Modern History

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

College of Arts and Law

About

I am Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham.

I graduated in Political Studies (Sciences Po) from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon and in Modern History from the University of Toulouse. A former Lavoisier Fellow at the Maison Française d’Oxford, I also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Prior to my arrival at Birmingham I worked as a Junior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Toulouse. I subsequently taught a range of European and World History papers at the University of Oxford. I was also a Visiting Lecturer (Maître de conférences) at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.

My teaching, research, and editorial undertakings have similarly been driven by a strong commitment to the comparative study of the French and European societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

My research to date has focused on the comparative history of the First World War and especially on the experience of the French, British, and Belgian populations. I have researched and published on wartime social mobilization, the experience of refugees, and pictorial humour.

I am currently writing on the process of nationalization and political mobilization in Britain and France in the early Twentieth Century, on the historiography of the First World War, on the reconstruction of belligerent societies after the conflict, and on resource mobilization in both world wars. .

I am also working on a monography which will be published in 2011. This book will build on my doctoral research and supplement a comparative history of social mobilisation with an investigation into the post-war stabilisation of the British and French societies. It will combine a study of the social impact of the conflict with an analysis of the local dimensions of the process of political demobilisation in both countries.

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