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Dr Ludivine Broch

Teaching Fellow in Modern European History

Office: G75, 15 Woodland road Consultation hours (PDF)

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Email: L.Broch@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

My research interests have focussed mostly on modern French history, with specific emphasis on the social history of Vichy France, and the politics of memory in the postwar period. I am currently turning my doctoral thesis, 'French railway workers under German Occupation, 1940-44' into a monograph. I am also working on two articles based on Holocaust memory in 21st century France. Future projects include a short study of the Jewish memory in sites of ex-internment camps in South-West France, and a much longer study of race in the age of antisemitism.

Teaching

My teaching interests stretch from minorities and migration in 20th century France, to cultural history in Nazi-Occupied Europe, and to the links between justice, genocide and memory in the postwar era.

Undergraduate Courses:

• Approaching the Past
• The Holocaust in the Postwar World
• Vichy France in History and Memory
• France and the Other
• Society and Culture in Nazi-Occupied Europe

Postgraduate Courses:

• Century of Genocide
• Themes in Cultural and Intellectual History
• Themes in Contemporary History

Publications

Book Reviews :

• Review of Ed Friedman, ed., Routeledge History of the Holocaust (2010), in English Historical Review, (forthcoming).
• Review of Tal Bruttmann, Laurent Joly and Annette Wieviorka, Qu'est-ce qu'un déporté? Histoires et mémoires des déportations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (2009), in Revue Histoire Politique, Sciences-Po, (March 2011).
• Review of Matthew Cobb, The Resistance: the French fight against the Nazis (2009) in French History, (March 2011).
• Review of Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (2010) in Jewish Quarterly (May 2011)

Projects for Publication :

Articles:

• ‘Money, Media and Memory: The French National Railways and the Holocaust’
• ‘Oral Testimony, the Holocaust and Historical Research: Probing the history of the Holocaust in 21st Century France’,
• ‘Professionalism in the Final Solution’
• ‘Jews, non-Jews, and the Experience of Deportation from France, 1942-44’,

Manuscript:

Ordinary Workers: French railway workers, Vichy and the Holocaust in 1940-44 (exp.2013)