Benoit VAILLOT

Department of History and Civilization French citizenship

European University Institute benoit.vaillot@ehess.fr

Via Bolognese 156 – Villa Salviati benoit.vaillot@eui.eu

50139 Firenze – Italy +33(0)6 32 16 47 57

Personal webpage Arche EA 3400 (French): www.ea3400.unistra.fr/equipe/doctorants/benoit-vaillot

Personal webpage European University Institute (English): www.me.eui.eu/benoit-vaillot

RESEARCH FIELDS

• Borders and borderlands (19th-20th centuries)

• France and Germanic spaces (19th-20th centuries)

• State-building and sovereignty history

• Nation, nationalities, nationalism

• Odonymy, public monuments

EDUCATION Since 2016 PhD Researcher

Under the supervision of Prof. Pieter M. JUDSON and Prof. Catherine

MAURER : The French-German Border (1871-1914). Territories, Sovereignties and

Identities. European University Institute (Florence, Italy) / École des Hautes Études

en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France).

Associate Researcher Arche EA 3400, Université de Strasbourg (Strasbourg,

France).

2016-2017 Master of Research

Doctoral training, European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

2013-2014 Agrégation externe d’histoire

Professeur agrégé d’histoire.

2012-2013 CAPES externe d’histoire-géographie

Professeur certifié d’histoire-géographie.

Master of Arts (2nd year) in Modern History

Master’s thesis under the supervision of Prof. Bruno BENOIT: Auguste Burdeau

(1851-1894). Du métier à tisser à la chambre des deputes., Université

Lyon 2 / Université Lyon 3 / École Normale Supérieure Lyon (Lyon, France).

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2011-2012 Master of Arts (1st year) in Modern History

Master’s thesis under the supervision of Prof. Bruno BENOIT: La mémoire

retrouvée d'Auguste Burdeau. Construction et déconstruction d'une postérité,

Institut des Sciences Politiques de Lyon (Lyon, France).

2007-2013 Sciences Po Lyon

Graduated (equivalent to Bachelor of Arts) in Political Science from the Institut

d’Études Politiques de Lyon (Lyon, France).

2006-2007 Classe préparatoire (Training for competitive entrance exam)

André Boulloche upper secondary school in Livry-Gargan/ Albert Schweitzer

upper secondary school in Le Raincy/ Université Paris-Est-Marne-La-Vallée

(Paris, France).

2006 Baccalauréat (High school leaving diploma)

Série ES (Economics major), Mention Très Bien (highest distinction).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

HIGH SCHOOL

2014-2016 Professor of History, France.

UNIVERSITY

2013-2016 Université Lyon 2 (Lyon, France), BA level (final year), 48-hour lecture course on

Modern History.

Université Lyon 2 (Lyon, France), BA level (final year), 36-hour lecture course in

« Humanities.

2015-2016 Université Lyon 3 (Lyon, France), BA level (final year) 4-hour lecture course on

“The regimes of relations between politics and religion”.

PRESENTATIONS COLLOQUIUM

2019 “The Alsace-Lorraine Landesausschuß in the German Empire, 1874–1918:

Integration of a borderland into an empire through provincial parliament?”

International colloquium “Parliaments and Political Transformations in Europe and

Asia: Diversity and Representation in the 20th and 21st Century” of the European

Research Council Programme “Entangled Parliamentarisms”, Internationales

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Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany),

12-13 February 2019.

2019 « Les Alsaciens-Lorrains face à l’option (1871-1918). »

Colloquium “L’Alsace et le tournant de 1918. Expulsions, migrations, mobilités“

organzed by Archives départementales du Bas-Rhin and Université de Strasbourg

(Strasbourg, France), 16-18 January 2019.

2018 “Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire. An exceptional status in a an

assymmetric federalism.”

Colloquium “Political transitions and federal projects (late 18th-early 21st

centuries)” organized by the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po and The American

University of Paris (Paris, France), 24-25 Mai 2018.

2018 “France facing its slavery and colonial past. Should slavery and colonial traces

be removed from public space ?”

Conference “Metti la Storia al Lavoro” organized by the Associazione Italiana di

Public History (AIPH), panel “Monumenti e statue: una lotta globale per il

controllo del passato nello spazio pubblico”, Universita di Pisa (Pisa, Italy), 11-15

June 2018.

2017 « Le “liseré vert”. Cartographier la frontière franco-allemande (1870-1877). »

Colloquium “Clio en cartes : cartographier la frontière, hier et aujourd’hui”

organized by the Centre de recherches sur les économies, les sociétés, les arts et

les techniques (EA 3436), Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse, France), 13

November 2017.

2016 « Tracer une frontière. La frontière franco-allemande de 1871 »

Colloquium “Les frontières dans tous leurs états” organized by the laboratoire

lorrain de sciences sociales (2L2S, EA 3478), Université de Lorraine (Nancy,

France), 20-21 October 2016.

« Auguste Burdeau, du panthéon lyonnais à l’oubli. Les vicissitudes d’une

mémoire urbaine (fin XIXe–XXe siècles). »

Colloquium “La ville et ses personnages illustres” organized by the French Urban

History Society, Université de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France), 21-22 January

2016.

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2015 « Redéfinir la nationalité après une annexion. L’option des Alsaciens-Lorrains

(1871-1873). »

International colloquium “Nationality at War” organized by the Musée national de

l’histoire de l’Immigration and Archives nationales de France (Paris, France) 3-4

December 2015.

WINTER AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

2018 Border Studies Summer School

Kyushu university (Kyushu, Japan) and Hokkaidō university (Sapporo, Japan), 2-5

July 2018.

Recipient of the Hokkaidō University Scholarship.

2017 Varieties of Citizenship in a Globalized World

“Global Governance Programme”, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies,

European University Institute (Florence, Italy), 27-28 November 2017.

Global Frontiers – An interdisciplinary Winter School

Eberhard Karls Universität (Tübingen, Germany), 15-17 November 2017.

Presentation: “Reshaping Borders, Reshaping Nationality. The nationality option in

Modern History”.

La frontière – Die Grenze

Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA),

Moulin d’Andé (Andé, France), 3-7 July 2017.

Article: “Sources et méthodologie de l’histoire des frontières. La frontière franco-

allemande de 1871”.

RESEARCH SEMINARS

2019 “The French-German border from below (1871-1914).” in the research seminar

“Gender, Social Action and Politics in European Borderlands, 1880s to the present”

organized by Prof. Laura LEE DOWNS and Dominika GRUZIEL, European

University Institute (Florence, Italy), 19 February 2019.

2018 « La frontière franco-allemande (1871-1914). Territoires, souverainetés et

identités. » in the research seminars “Frontières et itinéraires en Europe du Moyen

Âge au XXe siècle” organized by Prof. Hervé DOUCET and Associate Prof.

Ségolène PLYER, and “Mondes Germaniques” organized by Prof. Catherine

MAURER, Université de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France), 14 November 2018.

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2017 “The French-German border along history. A general perspective.” in the

“Core Introductory Seminar” organized by Prof. Pieter JUDSON, European

university Institute, 9 March 2017.

PUBLICATIONS

CHAPTERS

2019[forthcoming]“La guerre franco-allemande de 1870-1871 en Alsace et en Lorraine”, in Odile KAMMERER (dir.), Atlas historique transfrontalier du Rhin supérieur.

2019[forthcoming]“La fabrication d’une frontière. La délimitation de la frontière franco-allemande

de 1871”, in Les frontières dans tous leurs états, Presses universitaires de Nancy,

Éditions universitaires de Lorraine, 2018.

2018 “Témoigner d’une évasion. Les souvenirs d’un sergent français de la guerre de

1870-1871”, Roland SAUSSAC and Gilles VERGNON (dir.) Histoire(s) de Lyon et

d’ailleurs. Mélanges en l’honneur de Bruno Benoit, Éditions du Poutan, 2018.

ARTICLES

2018 “Un monument sur la frontière. Commémorer la guerre de 1870 à Mars-la-Tour

(1871-1914)”, In Situ. Revue des patrimoines, special issue: « Architecture et

patrimoine des frontières. Entre identités nationales et héritage partagé ».

RESEARCH BLOG

Histoire(s) de frontière(s), hypotheses research blog: www.border1871.hypotheses.org

REVIEWS

2015 Francia-Recensio 2015/3, septembre 2015 : Laëtitia BRASSEUR-WILD & Rainer

BRÜNNING, Vivre en temps de guerre des deux côtés du Rhin 1914–1918, 2015.

2013 Revue Émulations, online, avril 2013 : Philippe DELISLE, BD franco-belge et

imaginaire colonial, Paris, Karthala, 2008.

2010 Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, n° 107, juillet-septembre 2010, p. 166-168 :

Colloque « Identités confrontées à mai-juin 1968 ».

RESEARCH COORDINATION

Since 2018 Organizing Member of the Nineteenth Century Young Researchers Workshop

(Société d'histoire de la révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle &

Société de 1848).

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Since 2018 Author of the website Deutsche Paläographie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

(http://www.palaographie.hypotheses.org). Resources and typographical exercises

in German, French and English for German palaeography of the 19th and 20th

centuries.

Since 2017 Coordinator of the Nationalism Working Group (www.nwg.hypotheses.org),

conference and workshop organization in partnership with the Max Weber

Programme, hosted by the European University Institute.

Since 2012 Founding Member of Collectif Confluence (www.confluence.hypotheses.org),

association for the promotion of human and social sciences. Organization of

scientific events in collaboration with higher education and research stakeholders

and public authorities.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Memory Studies Association.

Association des historiens contemporanéistes de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la

recherche (AHCESR).

Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA).

Association of Borderlands Studies (ABS).

Association des Jeunes chercheurs en histoire (AJCH).

Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Allemagne-France / Interdisziplinäre

Forschungsgemeinschaft Frankreich-Deutschland.

TRAINING SEMINARS

PALAEOGRAPHY

2017 Paläographie-Kurs, workshop organized by Niels F. MAY, Deutsches Historische

Institut (Paris, France), 12-13 June 2017.

2015 Paléographie allemande des XIXe et XXe siècles, training organized by Johan

LANGE, Deutsches Historische Institut (Paris, France), 23-24 Mai 2015.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

2018 “Histoire et systèmes d’informations géographique”s, training seminar “Histoire &

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humanités numériques” organized by Nicolas MARQUÉ and Sébastien POUBLANC,

Université Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France), 5 February 2018.

2017 “Workshop, Data analysis with R”, data workshop organized by the European

University Institute Data Clinic, European University Institute (Florence, Italy), 23-

24 November 2017.

“Méthodes et outils numériques : les bases de données en histoire”, workshop

organized by Pascal BASTIEN, Benjamin DERUELLE and Stéphane LAMASSÉ,

Université du Québec à Montréal et Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

(Paris, France), 22-26 Mai 2017.

2016 “Training Seminar, Digital History”, of Serge NOIRET, European University

Institute (Florence, Italy), 4-9 November 2016.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English

Written, read and spoken in a scientific context.

French

Native speaker

German

Written, read and spoken in a scientific context.

Italian

Read and spoken.