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Nicolas LEBOURG

Career history

  • 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,” led 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, University of 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) – Open Society Institute Foundation.
  • From 2000 to 2015, taught at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia (research assistant, assistant professor, lecturer).
  • 2006-2008: Researcher for the Rivesaltes Camp Memorial program.

Degrees

  • PhD, Contemporary History, 2005.

Awards, distinctions, and coordination or participation in research projects

  • Member of the Scientific Council on Radicalization Processes (COSPRAD).
  • Member of the steering committee for the VIORAMIL program (Violence and Militant Radicalization in France) of the French National Research Agency, led by François Audigier (University of Lorraine).
  • Member of the 2011-2015 IDREA (Internationalization of Radical Rights. Europe Americas) international program at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lorraine, directed by Professor Olivier Dard, Identities, International Relations, and Civilizations of Europe (IRICE, UMR 8138), Sorbonne University.

Interactions with the environment

  • Regular media appearances.
  • Host of the website Fragments sur les Temps Présents(Fragments on the Present Times).

The 5 most representative works

  • Nicolas Lebourg, Did the Nazis Survive?, 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(Political Violence on the Margins from the 1980s to the Present), Paris, Riveneuve, 2017.
  • Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg, The Far Right in Europe, Seuil, Paris, 2015 (translated into English by Harvard University Press, 2017, into Korean by Hamul, 2017, and into Spanish by Capital intelectual, 2020).
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Abderahmen Moumen, Rivesaltes, Le Camp de la France de 1939 à nos jours (Rivesaltes, The Camp of France from 1939 to the Present Day), preface by Philippe Joutard, Trabucaire, Perpignan, 2015.
  • Nicolas Lebourg and Joseph Beauregard, François Duprat, the man who invented the National Front, Denoël, Paris, 2012.

The 5 most representative articles

  • "Extremist student violence during the 1960s,"Etudes, May 2018, pp. 45-58.
  • "Spaces and Violence of the Radical Far Right," Fanny Bugnon and Isabelle Lacroix, eds.,Les territoires de la violence politique en France (1962-2012) [Territories of Political Violencein France (1962-2012)], Paris, Riveneuve, 2017, pp. 41-68.
  • "Radiography of Populism," Olivier de France and Marc Verzeroli, eds., "The International Order Facing Democratic Challenges," La Revue internationale et stratégique No. 106, 2017, pp. 73-80.
  • "Arriba Eurasia? The difficult establishment of Eurasianism in Spain," Marlène Laruelle, ed.,Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship, Washington, Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 125-142.
  • "The National Front and the Galaxy of Radical Right-Wing Extremists," in Sylvain Crépon, Alexandre Dézé, and Nonna Mayer (eds.),The False Appearances of the National Front: Sociology of a Political Party, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2015, pp. 121-139.