Dr Madeline Woker

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Lecturer in Modern European History

Madeline Woker
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m.woker@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2608
Tuesdays 9-11 am (in person).

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Dr Madeline Woker
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
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I am a historian of Modern France, French and European colonialism, capitalism, and taxation.

I was previously a fellow at IAS Zürich, a fixed-term Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University. I also serve as the Secretary of the Society for French Historical Studies.


I obtained my PhD from Columbia University where my dissertation was awarded the Clough Prize for the best dissertation in European history. I also hold an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a dual Msc degree in European affairs from LSE and Sciences Po.

My work has appeared in Past & Present, the Journal of Global History as well as edited volumes. I am currently finishing a book about the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire between the 1850s and the 1950s, and I regularly write for a larger audience about the history and politics of international taxation and the afterlives of empire and colonialism. I also a co-editor of a special issue of the journal Marronnnages on racial capitalism

More information is available on my personal website: www.madelinewoker.com

Qualifications

PhD in International and Global History, Columbia University (2020)
MPhil Modern European History, Cambridge University (2014)

Research interests

French and European colonialism, Modern France and Europe, race, taxation, capitalism, history and politics of global economic/tax governance.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Woker M (2018) . Journal of Global History, 13(3), 352-373. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Woker M () . Past & Present. RIS download Bibtex download