Dr Madeline Woker
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Lecturer in Modern European History
+44 114 222 2608
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- Profile
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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
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PhD in International and Global History, Columbia University (2020)
MPhil Modern European History, Cambridge University (2014)
- Research interests
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French and European colonialism, Modern France and Europe, race, taxation, capitalism, history and politics of global economic/tax governance.
- Publications