I am Reader in Modern European History at the University of Warwick. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
I grew up on a small farm in Béziers, southern France, where my parents still live and work.
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 Research Fellow at the Maison Française d’Oxford, I also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
I suppose I am a good illustration of the inanity of the distinction between “somewheres” and “anywheres”…
Prior to my arrival at Warwick, 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 Visiting Lecturer (Maître de conférences) at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham.
From 2013 to 2016, I was Marie Curie Fellow at Yale University and Trinity College Dublin.
