Alya Aglan

Professor of contemporary history

Alya Aglan is a French historian, born in 1963. Her area of specialization is the history of the Resistance in France and in Europe, and more broadly of World War II. She taught as an associate professor at Université de Paris X­–Nanterre (2002-2011) before joining Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne as a full professor. She has directed the master's program in the History of International Relations and the World Overseas: the Americas, the Asian spheres, Europe (2015 and 2022), and the Institut Pierre Renouvin.

  • Teaching and research department (UFR): History
  • Joint research laboratory (UMR): SIRICE
  • Research fields: WW II, Vichy regime, resistance movements in France and in Europe, spoliation of Jews, the International Labour Organization (ILO) in time of war, the history of societies in war in the 20th century
  • Pedagogical responsibilities: Director, Institut Pierre Renouvin
  • Keywords: war, politics and society, 19th-20th centuries
  • Recent publications:
  1. La France à l’envers. La guerre de Vichy 1940-1945, Paris, Gallimard, Folio inédit, 2020.
  2. Co-edited with Robert Frank, 1937-1947 La guerre-monde, Paris, Gallimard, Folio inédit, 2015, 2 volumes; Italian translation published by Einaudi, Turin; Chinese translation published by Social Sciences Press, Beijing; Bengali translation published by Sampark, Calcutta.
  3. Co-edited with Yann Richard and Pierre Vermeren, La guerre de près et de loin XXe-XXIe siècle, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, collection Guerre et Paix, Sorbonne War Studies, in press, 2023.
  • Media publications: 

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