Activities

Professional Affiliations

• President and co-founder of the International Society for First World War Studies

The society gathers together over 280 scholars at every academic level in 27 countries worldwide. It runs a website and a discussion list (for further information see www.firstworldwarstudies.org). The Society has held five international conferences (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon in 2001; Oxford University, 2003; Trinity College, Dublin, 2005; Georgetown University / German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C, 2007; Imperial War Museum, London, 2009) and will hold its next biennial conference in Innsbrück, Austria in September 2011.

In 2001 and 2003, I took on the responsibility for organizing, funding and managing our gatherings that assembled over 50 scholars from Europe, North America and Australia.

In September 2009, the Society launched First World War Studies, a peer-refereed journal published by Taylor & Francis and whose first issue came out in 2010. I serve on its editorial board as an Associate Editor.

• American Historical Association
• Society for the Study of French History
• North American Conference for British Studies
• Society for Military History
• Group for War and Culture Studies

Research Groups

• Partner & Executive Board Member, Collaborative EuropeaN Digital/Archival Infrastructure, European Consortium coordinated by the Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin.

• Member of the Editorial Board/Strategic Partner, 1914-1918 Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War, coordinated by Professor Oliver Janz (Freie Universität Berlin) and Professor Alan Kramer (Trinity College, Dublin)

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France)

• Member of the “Mémoires Combattantes” international research group (France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Australia), coordinated by Professor Olivier Wieviorka (ENS Cachan) and Professor Antoine Prost (University of Paris I ‑ Sorbonne) – Project funded by the French Ministry of Defence

• Associate Member, British Studies, Interdisciplinary Research Group, E.H.E.S.S., Paris

• Member of the “Capital cities at war. Paris, London, Berlin. 1914-1919” research group, coordinated by Prof. Jay Winter, Yale University, and Prof.  Jean-Louis Robert, University of Paris I – Sorbonne. Organiser of the final meeting of the group at the Maison Française, University of Oxford, 12-14 December 2003.

Conference Organization

• “Future Wars, Imagined Wars: Towards a Cultural History of the pre-1914 period” Conference organized at the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France) by the Historial’s Research Centre, the German Historical Institute (Paris), the Institut Universitaire de France and the Centre for First World War Studies, 9-10 November 2011
• “World War I as a Global Conflict: New Directions in Cultural, Social, and Military History” Panel organized by the International Society for First World War Studies, Society for Military History Conference, Lisle (IL), USA, 9-12 June 2011
• “Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918-1945-1989” Conference organized at the University of Birmingham by the Graduate Centre for Europe, the European Research Institute and the Centre for First World War Studies, on 23-24 September 2010
• “Sarkozy’s France. A Year On” Conference organized by the University of Birmingham and Demo
  French Institute, London, on 5-6 May 2008 (www.sarkozysfrance.bham.ac.uk)

• 2^nd Biennial Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies
  University of Oxford, 23-24 June 2003

• Inaugural Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies
  Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon, 7-8 September 2001

Editorial experiences

• Associate Editor, First World War Studies
• Member of the Editorial Assistants Board of the Journal of War and Culture Studies (2006-2009)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Histoire et Sociétés, a quarterly journal of European social history, Paris, edited by Alternatives Economiques and the Groupe d’Histoire sociale (2001-2003)
• Co-editor of “Guerres et changement social”, special issue of Histoire et Sociétés. Revue européenne d’histoire sociale, n°8, October 2003. This volume addresses the problematic relations between military conflicts and social change, wartime state and local social policies, the urban experience of war, women’s work in Word War I, literary and cinematographic representations of warfare as well as the memory of both World Wars and the Holocaust.

Peer Review Evaluation

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom) – Modern History
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) – Modern History
• Editorial Peer Review for First World War Studies
• Editorial Peer Review for War in History
• Editorial Peer Review for Social and Cultural History
• Editorial Peer Review for Histoire et Sociétés (France)
• Editorial Peer Review for Cultures & Conflits (France)
• Manuscript Reviewer, Brill Academic Publishing (Leiden-Boston)