Dominique Kalifa

Dominique Kalifa is a French historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he is head of the Doctoral School of History and director of the Centre of 19th Century History.^[1] A student of Michelle Perrot, he specialises in the history of crime, transgression, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th France and Europe. He also teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) from 2008 and reviews for the French newspaper Libération. He is currently completing a new book about the Underworld and its role in the Western imaginary.

Books

• L’Encre et le Sang. Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Époque, Fayard, Paris, 1995.
• Naissance de la police privée, Plon, Paris, 2000.
• La Culture de masse en France, tome 1 1860–1930, La Découverte, Paris, 2001.
• Vidal le tueur de femmes. Une biographie sociale (with Philippe Artières), Perrin, Paris, 2001.
• Imaginaire et sensibilités au XIXe siècle (with Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini), Creaphis, Paris, 2005.
• Crime et culture au XIXe siècle, Perrin, Paris, 2005.
• L'Enquête judiciaire en Europe au XIXe siècle (ed), Creaphis, Paris, 2007.
• Le Commissaire de police au XIXe siècle (ed), Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008.
• Crimen y cultura de masas en Francia, siglos XIX-XX, Instituto Mora, Mexico, 2008.
• Biribi. Les bagnes coloniaux de l'armée française, Paris, Perrin, 2009.

In English : “Crime Scenes: Criminal Topography and Social Imaginary in Nineteenth Century Paris”, French historical studies, vol. 27, n° 1, 2004, p. 175-194 ; “Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siècle”, Yale French Studies, n° 108, 2005, p. 36-47 ; “What is now cultural history about?”, in Robert Gildea and Anne Simonin (eds), Writing Contemporary History, London, Hodder Education, 2008, p. 47-56; « The Press », in E. Berenson, V. Duclert & C. Prochasson (eds), The French Republic. History, Values, Debates, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2011, p. 189-196.

References

1. ^ http://www.univ-paris1.fr/centres-de-recherche/crhxix/membres/kalifa-dominique/

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