Romain Fathi

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Biography

Dr Romain Fathi is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University and a Chercheur Associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po in Paris. From 2024, he will be Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian National University (ANU), in Canberra. Dr Fathi was born and educated in France, where he gratuated from Sciences Po, and he now lives in Australia.

Dr Fathi is an award-winning cultural historian who focuses on the transnational dimension of war and its aftermath, in both the European and Australian contexts. The First World War, Australian History, humanitarism and the Red Cross are his primary research interests. His lastest book, Our Corner of the Somme, was published with Cambridge University Press. A selected list of his publications is available there: https://romainfathi.com/publications.

Dr Fathi is currently investigating the handling of human remains during and after the First World War. He is one of Resilient Humanitarism's (DP190101171) Chief Investigators, an Australian Research Council-funded project (2019-2024).

Dr Fathi publishes in French and in English, and he has taught at several universities including Sciences Po in Paris (France), Yale in the United States, and the University of Queensland in Australia.

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Qualifications and latest positions

• 2024 – ongoing. The Australian National University (ANU)
  Senior Lecturer, Level C, full time, faculty. Teaching and Research position.
• 2017 - 2024 Flinders University
  Senior Lecturer, Level C, full time, faculty. Teaching and Research position.
• 2016 - Associated Researcher, Sciences Po
  Associated Researcher at the Centre for History (CHSP), Sciences Po, Paris, France.
• 2015-2016 Post Thesis Fellow, The University of Queensland Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, UQ.
• 2015 Jointly-awarded PhD (Cotutelle), The University of Queensland - Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).
  Thesis title: “‘DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA’. Australian war memorialisation at Villers-Bretonneux”. Unanimously awarded the distinction “Très honorable avec félicitations du jury”.
• 2010 Professional Master and Master by Research in History (top 5%). Two-year double masters degrees at Sciences Po, Paris.
• 2008 Sciences Po’s Undergraduate Degree (Bachelor). Program in politics, economics, history and law.

Last Publications

• Fathi, Romain and Oppenheimer, Melanie. “The Shôken Fund and the evolution of the Red Cross movement”, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2023.
• Fathi, Romain. “Conceptualising the ‘Administration of the Dead’: Cadavers, war and public health in the early 20th century”, History Compass, 2023.
• Fathi, Romain. “Suppressing an ‘undesirable public controversy’: Corpses, the Department of Defence, and the Australian Graves Services, 1919–1921”, History Australia, 19:3 (2022), 487-505.
• Fathi, Romain. “Sovereignty, Democracy and Neutrality: French Foreign Policy and the National-Patriotic Humanitarianism of the French Red Cross, 1919–1928”, Contemporary European History 32, no. 2 (2023): 305–23.
• Fathi, Romain. “Centenary (Battlefield Tourism)”, in: 1914- 1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 5 Jan 2021.
• Oppenheimer, Melanie; Schech, Susanne; Fathi, Romain; Wylie, Neville; Cresswell, Rosemary. “Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies”, The International History Review, 43:3 (2021), 579-597.

A selected list of Romain Fathi’s publications is available here: https://romainfathi.com/publications