Stanford University

Visiting scholar / postdoc, History

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I am currently a Visiting Scholar at the History Department of Stanford University. I hold a B.A. from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris IV), an M.A. from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and a bi-national PhD from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (E.H.E.S.S.) in Paris, where my respective supervisors have been Prof. Dr. Ronald G. Asch and Prof. Dr. Jean Boutier. Before coming to Stanford, I was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
I am a specialist of seventeenth-century Europe, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany. In my dissertation, I have analyzed the role and functioning of political friendship at the French court in the seventeenth century.
Topics I am interested in include the political and cultural history of early modern France; the history of friendship and patronage; the history of everyday life in court society; early modern European nobilities, especially under the perspective of comparative and entangled history; the reception of Antiquity in early modern Europe, and the application of social and cultural theory to early modern European history.

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