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| Centre de Recherches Historiques | |
|---|---|
| Name | Centre de Recherches Historiques |
| Established | 20th century |
| Type | Research institute |
| City | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Affiliations | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CNRS, Université Paris |
Centre de Recherches Historiques The Centre de Recherches Historiques is a Paris-based research institute affiliated with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, devoted to historical scholarship spanning medieval to modern periods. It brings together scholars working on comparative history, intellectual history, social history, and cultural history, engaging with archives, libraries, and international collaborations across Europe and the Americas. The Centre has contributed to debates alongside institutions such as the Collège de France, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Institut d'Études Avancées.
Founded in the milieu of postwar academic renewal, the Centre emerged amid transformations involving École Pratique des Hautes Études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Its early development intersected with figures associated with Annales School such as Fernand Braudel, Marc Bloch, and Lucien Febvre, and with contemporaries at Institut Français, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. Cold War intellectual networks linked the Centre to exchanges with Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Princeton University. During the late 20th century, collaborations expanded to include Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Max Planck Institute for History, École Normale Supérieure, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique initiatives. The Centre navigated reforms that involved the French Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Higher Education, and European Research Council funding schemes.
Research spans medieval studies related to the Crusades and Byzantine Empire to early modern projects on the Reformation, Thirty Years' War, and Atlantic World slavery, and modern inquiries into the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, Paris Commune, World War I, World War II, Vichy France, and decolonization. Projects engage with intellectual histories of Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Diderot, and with social histories of labor movements including the Paris Commune, Chartists, and Solidarność. Collaborative projects connect to themes in gender history linked to Simone de Beauvoir, psychohistory influenced by Sigmund Freud, and economic history informed by Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Adam Smith. Transnational initiatives examine the Mediterranean, Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, British Empire, Spanish Empire, and colonial territories in Algeria, Indochina, and Saint-Domingue. Digital humanities projects interface with Gallica, Europeana, Digital Public Library of America, and the Perseus Project, and methodological dialogues reference Annales, microhistory as in Carlo Ginzburg, and longue durée approaches.
The Centre operates within structures connected to École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and CNRS units, collaborating with Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Nanterre, Université Paris-Sorbonne, École Normale Supérieure, Collège de France, and Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art. International partnerships include University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Toronto, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidade de São Paulo, and Australian National University. Funding and project links involve European Research Council, Horizon Europe, British Academy, Max Weber Stiftung, Humboldt Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Ford Foundation.
The Centre leverages archives and libraries including Bibliothèque nationale de France, Archives Nationales, Archives de la Seine, Musée Carnavalet, Institut Mémoires de l'Edition Contemporaine, Centre des Archives Diplomatiques, and municipal archives of Paris. It maintains partnerships with the British Library, Bodleian Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Archivo General de Indias, Library of Congress, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, and École des Chartes. Research technology resources interface with gallicana digitisation efforts, JSTOR, Persée, Cairn.info, and OpenEdition services.
Scholars publish in leading venues such as Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Journal of Modern History, Past & Present, French Historical Studies, Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de France, Mélanges de l'École française de Rome, Speculum, Slavic Review, American Historical Review, English Historical Review, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. Monographs appear with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Presses Universitaires de France, Éditions Gallimard, Routledge, Brill, Palgrave Macmillan, and Presses de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The Centre coordinates edited volumes and series linked to Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Éditions de la Sorbonne, and Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.
The Centre contributes to doctoral supervision and postdoctoral fellowships affiliated with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Université Paris 1, EHESS doctoral school, and Collège Doctoral. It hosts seminars involving invited scholars from University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, École Normale Supérieure, and Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. Training includes summer schools alongside Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, methodological workshops with Digital Humanities Lab, palaeography courses in conjunction with École nationale des chartes, and joint degrees with Institut d'Études Politiques, Université de Strasbourg, and University of Milan.
Associated figures include historians and intellectuals such as Fernand Braudel, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Georges Duby, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Nora, Michelle Perrot, Robert Darnton, Joan Wallach Scott, Judith Herrin, Peter Burke, Roger Chartier, Lynn Hunt, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Maurice Agulhon, Stéphane Régnier, Gérard Noiriel, Mona Ozouf, François Furet, Serge Klarsfeld, Eric Hobsbawm, E. P. Thompson, François Hartog, François Dosse, and Philippe Ariès. Alumni have held posts at Collège de France, Université de Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Chicago, and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Category:Research institutes in FranceCategory:HistoriographyCategory:École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales