Michelle Zancarini-Fournel
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Michelle Zancarini-Fournel Professor Emerita | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Yves Lequin |
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| Discipline | History |
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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]
Zancarini-Fournel began her career in 1969 as a secondary school teacher. Supervised by Yves Lequin, 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).
