Michelle Zancarini-Fournel
Professor Emerita
Born1947
NationalityFrench
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorYves Lequin [fr]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
  • History of women and gender
  • May 68
Institutions

Michelle Zancarini-Fournel (born 1947) is a French historian.[1] She is professor emeritus of contemporary history at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, and former co-director of the semi-annual journal, Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire.[2] Her research focuses on the history of popular movements.[3] She has published books and numerous articles in various journals.[4] She is a specialist in the history of women and gender, as well as May 68.[5]

Biography

Zancarini-Fournel began her career in 1969 as a secondary school teacher. Supervised by Yves Lequin [fr], her doctoral thesis in history was titled, Parcours de femmes : réalités et représentations, Saint-Étienne, 1880-1950 (Women's journey: realities and representations, Saint-Étienne, 1880-1950), which she defended in 1988 at Lumière University Lyon 2.[6]

A specialist in the history of women and gender, Zancarini-Fournel and Françoise Thébaud co-founded the history journal, Clio.[1]

Zancarini-Fournel also specialized in the topic May 68, whose archives she first helped to save,[7] before writing the history of the event. She also focused on the event in her habilitation dissertation, which was partially published in the book she co-edited 68 : une histoire collective (68: une histoire collective).9. [8] In 2016, she published a popular history of France, entitled Les luttes et les rêves (Struggles and Dreams).

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle (2019). "Le paysage se cambre: Publications autour du cinquantenaire de 1968". Genèses (in French). 116 (3): 111. doi:10.3917/gen.116.0111. ISSN 1155-3219.
  2. ^ "Michelle Zancarini-Fournel". larhra.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Michelle Zancarini-Fournel". www.editionsladecouverte.fr. La Découverte. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Publications de Michelle Zancarini-Fournel". Cairn.info. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Documents written by Michelle Zancarini-Fournel (301); is about Michelle Zancarini-Fournel (1217)". isidore.science. Isidore (platform). Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  6. ^ Dubesset, Mathilde; Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle (1 January 1988). "Parcours de femmes : réalités et représentations : Saint-Etienne : 1880-1950" (in French). Lyon 2. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  7. ^ "68 Les archives du pouvoir" (pdf) (in French). Archives nationales, dossier de presse. p. 15. Retrieved 19 January 2023. Several activist researchers (including Évelyne Cohen, Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, Jean-Claude Zancarini) participated in the creation in 1989 of the association "Mémoires de 68", which aims both at the conservation of archives related to 1968 but also to initiate academic research on these documents...
  8. ^ Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle; Delacroix, Christian (14 February 2014). "Michelle Zancarini-Fournel". 5267 (in French). Retrieved 19 January 2023.