Elizabeth MARCUS | MaCI - Université Grenoble Alpes

Elizabeth MARCUS

is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Newcastle (UK). She is a scholar of the 19th and 20th century French and Francophone worlds, with particular research interests in colonial and postcolonial history and theory, intellectual and legal history, and the afterlives of empire. Elizabeth received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2017. Before joining Newcastle as a Lecturer, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds, a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT. She has held fellowship in Paris, Beirut, Cassis, and her work has been supported by (among others) the Bourse Chateaubriand, the Leverhulme Foundation, the British Academy, the Council for British Research in the Levant, the Mellon Foundation, and the Camargo Foundation.

Project at the MaCI

France’s Global University: Education, Empire and Transnational Entanglements

April - June 2024

While at MaCI, she will be at work on her second monograph, France’s Global University: Education, Empire and Transnational Entanglements. This book examines left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975) at the Cité international universitaire de Paris, a residential campus built in the spirit of international humanism in the wake of World War I. In this thirty-year period, the Cité U was more than a simple dormitory: it came to represent and act as a hub of the global life of the city, an early locus of global migration, and a new model of global education. This interdisciplinary project brings to light unexpected connections between social anthropology, postcolonial studies, and global and cultural history and offers a new window onto the post-war and post-colonial moment. France’s Global University ultimately shows how a hybrid groups of migrants led to the production of novel orders of knowledge, fields of action and cultural imaginaries of the mid-century.

« The fellowship will allow me the time and resources to begin the writing of my manuscript. During my residential stay, I will participate in the seminars held at the l’Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, and in broader networks associated with the axe Migrations, frontières et relations internationales and Création culturelle et territoire(s), along with the broader network of researchers associated with le pôle Sciences humaines et sociales.»

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