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We investigate the global, comparative, and transnational history of Europe since 1400

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Professors, fellows, Ph.D. researchers and administrative staff of the Department

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The first ‘influencers’:

Emma Schwak on the history of opulence

Who taught the new rich how to be rich? In this #MyEUIResearch story, Emma Schwak traces how luxury objects, fashion magazines, and early taste-makers shaped elite identity in post-Revolutionary Paris.

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Publications

The Department of History focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context.

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Contribution to book

The interwar professional women’s movement in Scandinavia : ‘like fresh wind from across the Atlantic’

What bolstered the identity of professional women in Scandinavia, particularly regarding their rights and opportunities to work and earn money on equal terms with men? The chapter explores...

AUSTVEG, Victoria Ciobanu, LARSEN, Eirinn,
2025

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The interwar professional women’s movement in Scandinavia : ‘like fresh wind from across the Atlantic’

Working Paper

The construction of international order in the 1930s : polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)

This paper contributes to our understanding of how international order was produced in the economic discourse around the League of Nations of the 1930s.

SELCHOW, Sabine Ulrike
2026

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The construction of international order in the 1930s : polyphony of technocracy in McDougall’s ‘Economic appeasement’ (1936)

Article

From political exile to colonial military service: white Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920s

This paper pieces together the Foreign Legion’s recruitment practices, its methods for enlisting military exiles, and the Russian legionnaires’ journeys.

LIMA, Salvador Daniel
2025

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From political exile to colonial military service: white Russians in the French Foreign Legion in the 1920s

Contribution to book

Frau Konsulin Lippich : auf der Suche nach weiblichen Diplomaten im k.u.k. Konsulardienst

The chapter reconstructs the diplomatic activity of the Austro-Hungarian consular wife Teresina Lippich von Lindburg (1854–1924) and this activity’s subsequent concealment in the...

MÖRSDORF, Sven
2025

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Frau Konsulin Lippich : auf der Suche nach weiblichen Diplomaten im k.u.k. Konsulardienst

Article

Saluti di mare e 'battibecchi' di rango : il cerimoniale durante le prime spedizioni navali francesi nel Mediterraneo (1664-1673)

Dall’inizio del regno personale di Luigi XIV nel 1661, le prime sortite nel Mediterraneo dopo la (ri)costruzione della marina francese furono un’occasione perfetta per il suo primo...

MOREL, Maxime
2025

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Saluti di mare e 'battibecchi' di rango : il cerimoniale durante le prime spedizioni navali francesi nel Mediterraneo (1664-1673)

Events

News

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M'hamed Oualdi brings Mediterranean slavery to a Paris exhibition

The exhibition Esclaves en Méditerranée, co-curated by EUI History Professor M'hamed Oualdi, brings the often neglected history of Mediterranean slavery to a wide public. It is hosted at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris until 19 July 2026.

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Elisa Chazal wins 2026 James Kaye Memorial Prize in History and Visuality

Elisa Chazal's doctoral thesis examines how 19th-century Europeans staged and consumed the past through immersive historical reconstructions in London, Vienna, Budapest, and Paris. She received the 2026 James Kaye Memorial Prize at the EUI conferring ceremony on 19 June.

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Lucy Riall wins ERC Advanced Grant to study migrant colonialism

EUI History Professor Lucy Riall has won an ERC Advanced Grant for a five-year project on how migration and empire became entangled in South America between the 1840s and the 1940s, from nation-building and frontier conquest to the imperial ambitions of Italy, Germany, and Japan.

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