Guillaume Piketty

Guillaume Piketty is a Full Professor of History at Sciences Po. He was a Visiting Research Scholar at Yale University (2010-2012), then a Visiting Fellow at Worcester College, a Senior Visiting Research Associate to the Modern European History Research Centre (MEHRC) and an Associate member of the Faculty of History at Oxford University (2012-2018).

He was Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies (1995-1999) and Vice-President (1999-2003) of Sciences Po.

His research focuses on the social and cultural history of World War II in France and in Europe, and, more broadly, on war, resistance, coming out of war and society since the beginning of the US Civil War. He notably borrows from the history of sensitivities, the history of emotions and the history of intimacy.

At Sciences Po, he convenes with Géraud Létang (Service historique de la Défense), Claire Miot (Sciences Po Aix, CHERPA) and Thomas Vaisset (Université Le Havre Normandie, UMR IDEES), the seminar « Mondes militaires et Seconde Guerre mondiale », within the broader research theme « Experiences / Social Actors, Movements & Groups ». 

He teaches on 19th century European history (“The Long European 19th Century (1780-1914). Revolutions, Modernity and Rise to Power”, 1st year lecture within the Europe-North America Programme, College, Reims campus), the social uses of the past (“Narratives, Uses and Representations of the Past”, 2nd year lecture within the “Political Humanities” major of the Europe-North America Programme, College, Reims campus), and the history of war as it is showed and used in cinema (“War on Screens” elective seminar, 2nd year of the Europe-North America Programme, College, Reims campus). He also organizes and coordinates the collective Historiography seminar within the 1st year of the Masters in History.

Last Publications

• Guillaume Piketty, "Le long chemin vers la résistance active aux dictatures. Pierre Brossolette et la Guerre d'Espagne", p. 122-130 in Europe, "Écrivains et reporters dans la Guerre d'Espagne", n° 118-119-120, June-July-August 2022
• Steven O'Connor and Guillaume Piketty (eds.), Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies. From Civil Conflicts to Coalition Wars, 1848-2015 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022).
• Guillaume Piketty, Français, libre. Pierre de Chevigné, Tallandier, May 2022.
• Winston Churchill, Guillaume Piketty (ed.), Discours de guerre, Tallandier, Edition bilingue, April 2022.
• Piketty, Guillaume. 2020. "Français libres entre traditions et innovation (1940 - ...)." In Symbolique, traditions et identités militaires, ed. Hervé Drévillon and Édouard Ebel, 198-213. Vincennes: Service Historique de la Défense.
• Miot, Claire, Guillaume Piketty and Thomas Vaisset, ed(s). 2020. Militaires en résistances en France et en Europe. War Studies. 1. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
• Piketty, Guillaume. 2020. "Conclusion. Pour une histoire sensible des militaires en résistances." In Militaires en résistances en France et en Europe, ed. Claire Miot, Guillaume Piketty and Thomas Vaisset, 247-266. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. War Studies.
• Piketty, Guillaume. 2020. "Les États-Unis en 1940." In Comme en 40..., ed. Christophe Bertrand, Jordan Gaspin, Vincent Giraudier, Carine Lachèvre and François Lagrange, 250-254. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.

▸ Extract of scientific CV (PDF, 514 Ko) (EN)