Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
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Coquery-Vidrovitch in 2011
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (born 25 November 1935 in Paris) is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.
Biography[]
She graduated from the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in 1959.[1] She earned her third cycle doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études in 1966.[1] She was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 1987, at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and at the Humanities Research Center, University of Canberra at the University of Canberra in 1995.[1]
Her research deals with Africa: the political issues of colonization as well as the idea of imperialism and capitalism in Africa.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "COQUERY-VIDROVITCH Catherine - Société française d'histoire des outre-mers". www.sfhom.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
External links[]
- Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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- 1935 births
- Living people
- Grand Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
- Historians of slavery
- Historians of Africa
- 21st-century French historians
- 20th-century French historians
- French women historians
- 20th-century French women writers
- 21st-century French women writers
- French Africanists
- Historians of the Republic of the Congo
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