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Sibylle Fourcaud

Associate Researcher

Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Atlantic history, new imperial history, history of the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, history of refugees, history of welfare policies, history of the state and public administration.

Discipline(s): History

Biography

Professional Background and Education

2025–2026: Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) at the University of Western Brittany (UBO)
2025: PhD in History, qualified for appointment as University Lecturer (Section 22). Thesis: ‘The Empire’s Beneficiaries: A Political and Administrative History of Aid to Dominican Refugees in France (1793–1911)’ (supervised by Nicolas Delalande and Jakob Vogel)
2024–2025: Member of the ERC project ‘Atlantic Exiles’ at the University of Tübingen (Germany)
2023–2024: Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) at Sciences Po
2020–2023: PhD student on a fixed-term contract at the Centre for History at Sciences Po (CHSP) under the supervision of Jakob Vogel and Nicolas Delalande.
2019–2020: Teacher at Lucie Aubrac Secondary School (Collège), Livry-Gargan, France
2019: Agrégation in History (22nd)
2018: Master's degree in History from Sciences Po

publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Forthcoming. « Les ayants droit de l’empire. Une histoire politique et administrative des secours aux Domingois réfugiés en France (1793-1911) », position de thèse, Annales historiques de la Révolution française.
« The Nation and the Deserving Refugees: Granting Relief to the Saint-Dominguans in France, 1793-1802 ». Itinerario, 1-16, 2026.
with Shandiva Banerjee, « Après l’égalité : les personnes de couleur face à l’administration des secours aux réfugiés des colonies, 1794-1802 », Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, vol. 72, n°2, 2025.

Other articles

Forthcoming. « Exils et circulations révolutionnaires (années 1770-années 1800) », Historiens et géographes.
« ‘Colons de Saint-Domingue réfugiés en France’: State Relief and the Making of an Administrative Label, 1793-1831 », Age of Revolutions, 1er juin 2023.

Book chapters

Forthcoming. « Séparations familiales impériales et administration métropolitaine : les secours aux réfugiés et déportés de Saint-Domingue en métropole (1792-1802) » in Antonin Durand et Romy Sanchez (dir.), Exils et séparations familiales au XIXe siècle (1789-1914), éditions de la Sorbonne.
Forthcoming. With Patrick Travens, « A ‘Colourblind’ Revolution? The French Revolution and the Policing of Black Presences in the Metropole », in Shandiva Banerjee, Ian Coller et Vincent Denis (dir.), Policing Black Presence in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Reviews

« Sudhir Hazareesingh, Toussaint Louverture, Paris, Flammarion, 2020 », La Vie des Idées, 31 mars 2021.