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Nicolas LEBOURG

Career path

  • Since 2019: Coordinator of the Citizenship Chair, Sciences-Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
  • 2015-2020 : Research fellow, "Project on the Transnational History of the Far Right", directed by Professor Marlène Laruelle, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University.
  • 2018-2019: Research engineer, European Center for Sociology and Political Science, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne.
  • 2017-2018 : Project researcher "The Far Right in Europe and Russia's Role and Influence", Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (New York) - Foundation Open Society Institute.
  • From 2000 to 2015, teaching at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia (research supervisor, ATER, lecturer).
  • 2006-2008: researcher for the Rivesaltes Camp Memorial program.

Diplomas

  • PhDContemporary History, 2005.

Prizes, distinctions and Coordination or participation in research projects

  • Member of the Scientific Council on Radicalization Processes (COSPRAD).
  • Member of the steering committee of the VIORAMIL program (Violences et radicalisations militantes en France) of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, directed by François Audigier (Université de Lorraine).
  • Member of the 2011-2015 IDREA (Internationalisation des Droites Radicales. Europe Amériques) international program of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Lorraine, directed by Prof. Olivier Dard, Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations de l'Europe (IRICE, UMR 8138), Sorbonne University.

Interactions with the environment

  • Regular media appearances.
  • Host of the Fragments sur les Temps Présents website.

The 5 most representative works

  • Nicolas Lebourg, Les Nazis ont-ils survécu?, Paris, Seuil, 2019 (English translation by Routledge, 2020).
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Isabelle Sommier eds, La Violence des marges politiques des années 1980 à nos jours, Paris, Riveneuve, 2017.
  • Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg, Les Droites extrêmes en Europe, Seuil, Paris, 2015 (translated into English by Harvard University Press, 2017, into Korean by Hamul, 2017, into Spanish by Capital intelectual, 2020).
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Abderahmen Moumen, Rivesaltes, Le Camp de la France de 1939 à nos jours, preface by Philippe Joutard, Trabucaire, Perpignan, 2015.
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Joseph Beauregard, François Duprat, l'homme qui inventa le Front National, Denoël, Paris, 2012.

The 5 most representative articles

  • "Student extremist violence during the 1960s", Etudes, May 2018, pp. 45-58.
  • "Espaces et violences de l'extrême droite radicale", Fanny Bugnon and d'Isabelle Lacroix eds, Les territoires de la violence politique en France (1962-2012), Paris, Riveneuve, 2017, pp. 41-68.
  • "Radiographie des populismes", Olivier de France and Marc Verzeroli eds, "L'ordre international face aux contestations démocratiques", La Revue internationale et stratégique no. 106, 2017, pp.73-80.
  • "Arriba Eurasia? The difficult establishment of eurasianism in Spain", Marlène Laruelle dir. in Eurasianism and european far right: reshaping the Europe-Russia relationship, Washington, Lexington books, 2015, pp. 125-142.
  • "Le Front national et la galaxie des extrêmes droites radicales", in Sylvain Crépon, Alexandre Dézé , Nonna Mayer (dir.), Les faux-semblants du Front national. Sociologie d'un parti politique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2015, pp. 121-139.