Nicolas Lebourg

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Nicolas Lebourg (born 1974) is a French historian who specializes on far-right movements in Europe. [1] [2]

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Biography

Born in 1974, Lebourg studied sociology at Aix-Marseille University and history at the University of Perpignan, from which he graduated with a PhD in contemporary history in 2005, [1] [2] after a thesis on French national revolutionaries during the period 1940–2002. [3]

Between 2015 and 2017, he was a research fellow in the program "History of fascism in Europe and Eurasia" at George Washington University, under the supervision of French historian Marlène Laruelle. In 2017–2018, he was a project researcher in the study group "The Far Right in Europe and Russia’s Role and Influence" for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. [2]

Lebourg also comments on the current political events in various newspapers such as Slate, Mediapart and Libération . [4] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Qui est Nicolas Lebourg, l'incontournable historien du FN ?". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  2. 1 2 3 "Nicolas LEBOURG". Centre d’Etudes Politiques de l’Europe Latine (in French). Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  3. "Neo-fascisme et nationalisme-révolutionnaire. Présentation de la version Web". phdn.org. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  4. "Nicolas Lebourg: ses articles à lire sur Slate.fr". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-08-28.