The Sciences Po Centre for History
The Sciences Po Centre for History was founded in 1984 and brings together all research and teaching in history at Sciences Po, doctoral studies included. The CHSP is primarily concerned with political history, understood in the broadest sense and approached from a transnational and comparative perspective.
The CHSP has implemented several changes in recent years. We have increased and internationalised our staff, broadened our fields of research on a European and global scale, extended our chronological range back to the early modern period, and stepped up multidisciplinary collaboration. We have fully integrated our PhD students into our research activities, placed greater emphasis on their professional training, and regularly host post-doctoral fellows and visiting researchers.
At the CHSP, research and teaching are closely linked and geared towards a multidisciplinary, international outlook. We have 26 permanent faculty members, 50 PhD students, several post-doctoral fellows and 32 affiliated researchers, accompanied by a research support team.
We maintain several partnerships for academic collaboration with research centres, networks, and associations at the international level, such as with the London School of Economics and King’s College. The CHSP is active in the CIVICA network, established in 2019 by several major European universities including Sciences Po.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Individual or collective research projects conducted within the Center are part of the intense research activity of the Center. The Center assists any member of its research community in the application procedure to national, European or international calls, as well as in the conduct of any granted research project (ANR, ERC, etc...).
FACULTY
The Center for History gathers some thirty scholars, all members of Sciences Po permanent faculty, as well as some fifty doctoral students. Post-doctoral fellows are involved in specific research projects. In addition, around thirty French and international scholars are affiliated to the Center.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY ARCHIVES
The Contemporary History Archives service was established in 1971 by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP) and has been attached to the Sciences Po Centre for History (CHSP) since 1989. It holds more than 100 collections donated by French political, cultural, and media figures. The Contemporary History Archives has two main missions: to provide research assistance and to promote the collections. To fulfil these missions, the service collects, classifies, inventories, and informs researchers about the collections placed in its care.
HISTOIRE@POLITIQUE (FR)
The latest publications
Lévi-Strauss, Monique, and Emmanuelle Loyer. L’Abécédaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss. Abédédaires des Lumières. Les Editions de l’Observatoire, 2021.
Nicolas Barreyre, Nicolas Delalande (dir.), A World of Public Debts. A Political History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Pour en finir avec la nature morte, Gallimard, nov. 2020
Mario Del Pero et Justine Faure (dir.), Décentrer la Guerrre froide, Monde(s) n°18, nov. 2020
Brigitte Gilardet, Paroles de commissaires - Histoires. Institutions. Pratiques, Les Presses du réel, Œuvres en société, nov. 2020
Simon Perego, Pleurons-les. Les Juifs de Paris et la commémoration de la Shoah (1944-1967), Editions Champ Vallon, oct. 2020, 392 p. "Préface" de Claire Andrieu
Etienne Peyrat, Histoire du Caucase au XXe siècle, Fayard, oct. 2020
Yves Léonard, Mario Soares (Préface), Salazarisme et fascisme, Editions Chandeigne, oct. 2020
