Emile Chabal

Emile Chabal (born 1983) is a British historian specialising in twentieth-century European intellectual and political history. He is currently Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, and previously held teaching and research positions at St John's College, Cambridge, and Balliol College, Oxford.

Education Chabal received his BA in History from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and then studied for a year at Rice University as a CD Broad Scholar. He returned to Cambridge to complete an MPhil in Historical Studies, graduating in 2007, and continued there for a PhD. During his doctoral research, Chabal was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University and a visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Career Following his PhD, Chabal took up a post as department lecturer in modern European history at the University of Oxford, attached to Balliol College. In 2012, he began a year-long research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge. In 2013, he was appointed Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, promoted to Reader in 2018 and to Professor of Contemporary History in 2024.

Publications Chabal's publications include;

As author:

A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France, Cambridge University Press, 2015 France, Polity Press, 2020

As editor:

Britain and France in Two-World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 (co-edited with Robert Tombs) France since the 1970s: History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 States of Ignorance: Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2023