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Elodie Charié

PhD Candidate

Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Medical, social and cultural history of colonial and military psychiatry, History of First Indochina War, History of French Empire, History of colonization and decolonization

Discipline(s): History

Biography

My thesis examines psychiatric disorders during the First Indochina war from 1945 to 1954. Its objective is to write a medical, social and cultural history of psychiatry in war and colonial context. It aims at understanding the experiences of men and women hospitalized in psychiatric services during this conflict of decolonization. In doing so, an epistemological line of inquiry allows to deepen the understanding of psychiatry as a science, both in colonial situation and wartime. Given the sociology of patients coming from the whole French Empire, this research contributes to a cultural history of scientific and colonial representations. Theses three dimensions offer a fresh perspective on the First Indochina war, by means of both quantitative and qualitative methods.

EXPERIENCE

  • Since 2023: Doctoral candidate at Sciences Po (CHSP),
  • 2019 : Agrégation in history,
  • 2017 :  Graduated from Sciences Po in history. Master thesis supervised by Guillaume Piketty : « L’hôpital de Choquan et ses patients dans la guerre d’Indochine. La prise en charge des troubles psychiatriques par le Service de Santé des F.T.E.O. (1945-1954) »,
  • 2016-2017 : Research assistant for Claire Lemercier (CSO), Clare Crowston (University of Illinois) and Steven Kaplan (Cornell University). Project: Learning How. Apprenticeship in 18th and 19th France,
  • 2015 :  Bachelor’s degree in History, mention très bien, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne,
  • 2012 à 2015 : hypokhâgne and khâgne, lycée Henri IV, Paris.

TEACHING

  • 2023
    - Conférences de méthode "Récits, représentations et usages du passé" (Sciences Po, campus de Paris, bachelor level),
    - Teaching assistant auprès d'Emmanuelle Loyer, "Récits, représentations et usages du passé" (Sciences Po, campus de Paris, bachelor level),
  • 2019-2023 : History and Geography teacher in secondary education (Académie de Créteil).

Thesis Supervision

Guillaume Piketty (Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po) et Claire Edington (Université de San Diego)

"Psychiatric disorders during the First Indochina War (1945-1954): a medical, social and cultural history of psychiatry in war and colonial context"