Sep 2013 – Present
Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Warwick
- Undergraduate courses taught:
- Farewells to arms? War in Modern European History (1815-2015) [Year 1]
- Urban catastrophes. Disasters and urban reconstruction from 1906 to the present [Year 2]
- Special Subject: A comparative history of the First World War, 1912-1923 [Year 3]
- Team-taught modules: Making History; Making of the Modern World [Year 1]
- Postgraduate courses:
- Historical Research: Theory, Skills and Method
- Research supervision:
PhD in Modern History
Ms Camille Mahé, Children’s experiences of occupation and post-war demobilization in Western Europe: France, Germany, Italy (1940-1949)
Joint PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Guillaume Piketty, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. Warwick History full studentship – Contrat doctoral, Sciences Po. Start date: October 2016
Ms R. Crites, The continuation of war by other means: domestic violence in Britain, 1914-1936
AHRC Studentship – Successfully defended January 2017
- PhD Examination
Internal examiner, History, University of Warwick (2016)
External examiner, War Studies, King’s College, London (2017)
- Administrative roles:
Admissions Tutor; Second-Year Examination Tutor
University Institutional Teaching and Learning Review, Panel Member (2016-17)
Athena SWAN Award Committee
- External duties:
External Examiner, MA in Modern European History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2016-2020)
External Institutional Review Group, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin (2015)
Fall 2014 –
Marcel Bataillon Visiting Chair in French Historiography, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University
- Undergraduate courses taught: HIST 236Ja – A comparative history of the First World War, 1912-1923
Jan 2013 – April 2016
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Yale University (2013-2014) / Trinity College, Dublin (2015-2016)
Oct 2009 – Aug 2013
Senior Lecturer in History, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham (Promoted from Lecturer in 2011)
- Undergraduate courses taught:
“War, Armed Forces, and Society”; “Practising History”; “Group Research”; “Reviewing History”; “Historical Reflections”; Special Subjects: “A Comparative History of the First World War, 1912-1923”; “The British Army on the Western Front”; Optional Unit: “France. From the Popular Front to the Liberation”
* Nominated for Outstanding Personal Tutor Award, 2011-2012*
- Postgraduate courses:
“Research Skills”, “Bullets and Billets”, MA in First World War Studies
Guest Lecturer, Europaeum M.A. Programme in European History, Universities of Leiden, Oxford and Paris I –Sorbonne
Visiting Lecturer, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, Masters Programme (2009-2010) – “A cultural history of contemporary warfare, 20th & 21st centuries.”
- Research supervision
PhD in Modern History
Mrs C. Morelon, Imperial mobilization and national upheaval: the war experience in Prague, 1914-1920 (AHRC Studentship & College Scholarship)
Joint PhD, co-supervised with Prof Guillaume Piketty, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. – Successfully defended May 2015.
MA in Modern and Contemporary History
MA in Social Research
- Administrative duties:
Admissions Tutor ; Member of the School Executive Committee ; Research Committee; Learning & Teaching Committee (2011-2012)
Programme Convenor, MA in First World War Studies (2009-11)
Director, Centre for First World War Studies (2009-2011)
Primary Appeals Committee (UoB)
- External duties:
PhD Examiner, University of Exeter (2012)
Sep 2007 – Aug 2009
Lecturer in History, Department of French Studies, University of Birmingham
- Undergraduate courses taught:
“Modern France 1 & 2”; “Historical Images of Europe”
Final-Year Modules: Special Subject “Marianne en guerre, 1914-1918. The French experience of the Great War” / “Fascism in Western Europe”; “English – French Translation”
* Nominated for Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008-2009 *
- Postgraduate courses:
“Research Skills”, MA – MPhil Modern European Cultures
Guest Lecturer, Europaeum M.A. Programme in European History, Universities of Leiden, Oxford and Paris I –Sorbonne – February 2009
- Administrative duties:
Module Convenor (Modern France 2) / Erasmus Tutor (Incoming Students) / Year Abroad Assessment Tutor
Sep 2007 – Jan 2007
Senior Research Scholar, Modern European History Research Centre & Tutor in Modern History, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford
- Undergraduate courses taught: “A comparative history of the First World War, 1914-1920”; “Origins of the welfare state”
- Postgraduate courses:
Guest Lecturer, Université de Paris III – Sorbonne-Nouvelle, M.A. Programme – March 2007
Apr 2006 – Oct 2005
Stipendiary Lecturer in Modern History, Jesus College, Oxford
- Courses taught:
General (European) History IV: “Society, Empire, Nation, 1815-1914”; General (World) History XIV (1941-1973); Approaches to History: Max Weber; Historiography (Foreign Texts): Tocqueville; Discipline of History: Comparative History; Further Subject: “A comparative history of the First World War, 1914-1920”; Special Subject: “French literature and the First World War”
- Other academic duties:
Undergraduate thesis supervision; Undergraduate admissions (selection and interviews)
Oct 2005 – Oct 2004
Research Scholar, Pembroke College & Tutor in Modern History, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford
- Courses taught:
Further Subject: “A comparative history of the First World War, 1914-1920”; Special Subject: “French literature and the First World War” ; Disciplines of History: Comparative History
Sep 2004 – Oct 2003
Besse Research Scholar, Pembroke College & Tutor in Modern History, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford
- Courses taught:
Further Subject: “A comparative history of the First World War, 1914-1920”; Special Subject: “French literature and the First World War”; Undergraduate thesis supervision
Sep 2003 – Oct 2002
Lavoisier Research Fellow, Maison Française d’Oxford & Visiting Research Scholar, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford
Sept 2002- Sept 1998
Junior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Toulouse II
- Courses taught:
Lectures and classes “Modern European History, 1815-1939”