Emmanuel Destenay received his PhD from Sorbonne University. He has held research fellowships at Oxford University, Stanford University, and University College Dublin. He has contributed articles to numerous journals both in French and in English. His first monograph, Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923) received an honorable mention from the American Conference for Irish Studies. Divergent Destinies, his second book, reexamines the interconnection between fears of military service and the rise of Irish republicanism between 1914 and 1918. His third monograph on American humanitarian interventions in France during World War I was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. He has now embarked on a new project.
He is a research fellow at Sorbonne University and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also a member of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the Society for Military History (SMH).
Experience
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2019–presentResearch fellow, Sorbonne University
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2017–2019Postdoctoral research fellow, University College Dublin
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2015–2015Visiting assistant professor, Stanford University
Education
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2014Sorbonne University, PhD in Contemporary History
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2009King's College London, MA in European Studies
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2009Université de Picardie Jules Verne, MPhil in History
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2008Université de Picardie Jules Verne, MPhil in English Literature
Publications
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2024America's Franch Orphans: Mobilization, Humanitarianism and the Protection of France (1914-1921), Cambridge University Press
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2022Divergent Destinies: Conscription, US Intervention, and the Transformation of Ireland (1914-1918), Bloomsbury Academic
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2021Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1919-1923), University College Dublin Press
Grants and Contracts
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2016Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Role:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Funding Source:
- University College Dublin
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2015Visiting Junior Scholar
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- Visiting Junior Scholar
- Funding Source:
- Stanford University
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2009PhD Fellowship
- Role:
- PhD Candidate
- Funding Source:
- Sorbonne University
Professional Memberships
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- Paris, France
- Website
- Article Feed
- ORCID
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