Pierre-Yves SAUNIER
Born 25 december 1963 at Le Creusot (France)
Citizenship: French
3 rue Marcel Pehu
69003 LYON France
pierre-yves.saunier@wanadoo.fr |
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Researcher (chargé de recherche) at the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) since 1994
Research center: UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, 18
rue Chevreul, 69007 LYON
Languages: fluent English and Italian |
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TRAINING |
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- DEUG d’histoire, DEUG de géographie, Licence (BA) d’histoire, Licence (BA) d’études urbaines, maîtrise d’histoire (MA) at the University Lumière-Lyon
II, 1981-1985
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- Thèse de doctorat en histoire (PhD in history), Université Lumière-Lyon II, 1992 (Download…)
| - postdoctoral fellowship: Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, 1993-1994
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SCIENTIFIC
ACTIVITIES, RESEARCH |
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- Rockefeller Archives
Center Research Grant, 1999-2000, 2006-2007

- Fulbright Grant 1997-1998 (visiting scholar at Cornell University, Ithaca)

- Visiting Grant,École Française de Rome, 1995 and 1996

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- Coordinator of the Dutch-Italian-French group ‘The municipal movement in Europe 1900-1950,’ financed by the CNRS and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 1999-2001
- Coordinator, with Christian Montès, of the workshop ‘History of urban disposition 19th-20th centuries’ (Histoire de l’aménagement urbain 19e-20e siècles) at the UMR 5600 in Lyon, 1996-1999
- Organiser and co-organiser for conference sessions and workshops:
| 1996 |
session ‘The neighborhood myth and reality 16th-20th centuries,’ with Geoffrey Crossick (University of Essex), European Association of Urban Historians Conference, Budapest (Hungary). |
| 1998 |
session ‘Municipal employees and services 1850-1950,’ with Michèle Dagenais, European Urban History Association Conference, Venice (Italy). |
| 2000 |
workshop ‘The Administration of cities in Europe 1850-1950,’ Lyon, June 2000. |
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workshop ‘Circulations, transferts and connections in the modern era: the age of urban reform,’ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (with Axel Schäfer, Keele University). |
| 2005 |
workshop ‘Brainstorming the Dictionary of Transnational History’, Rockefeller Archives Center, Tarrytown (USA). |
| 2009 |
panel ‘Globalizing historical reference encyclopedias and textbooks : treats and caveats’, American Historical Association meeting, New York City (USA). |
- Invited papers (selected list)
| 1991 |
Urban neighborhood in Europe XIIth-XXth centuries), French Institute, Rome (Italy) |
| 1993 |
Urban segregation in France in the modern Age, Université Paris 1 |
| 1995 |
Heritage and the city, Université de Grenoble |
| 1996 |
Elites and local powers in South-East France, Université Lyon 2 |
| 1997 |
Civil urban society, British Urban History Group meeting, Brighton (UK) |
| 1997 |
Internet and History, Université d’Orléans |
| 2000 |
Philanthropy and the city, City University of New York, New York, USA |
| 2001 |
The role of American Foundations in Europe, RAFE network, Amalfi (Italy) |
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The city in modern history, Italian Society of Modern Historians, Lecce (Italy) |
| 2004 |
Transnational history symposium, Australian National Universisty, Canberra (Australia) |
| 2006 |
European and American city since the 19th century, Society of German Historians, Konstanz (Germany) |
| 2007 |
Private Wealth, Public Welfare: Philanthropy and Social Knowledge in a Transatlantic World, Rockefeller Archive center, Tarrytown (USA) |
| 2007 |
Public and Private Origins of Social Policies: A Transnational Perspective (1880-1940), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium) |
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The International Labour Office: Past, Present, Future, International Institute of Social History, Brussels,( Belgium) |
| 2008 |
Philanthropic Foundations and fellowships programs, Rockefeller Archive Center, Tarrytown (USA) |
| 2008 |
Where is the global ?, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales/Sciences Po Paris, Paris |
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Doing transnational history, panel of the American Historical Association meeting, New York City (USA) |
| 2009 |
Towards the Transnational History of International Organizations: Methodology / Epistemology, UNESCO/Cambridge University (England) |
- Invited discussant, keynote speaker, session chair (selected list):
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City words, UNESCO, Paris |
| 2002 |
European Reconstructions: science policies and urban planning, Università di Bologna (Italy) |
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Cities as transnational actors, European Science Foundation, Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
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Globalization as an historiographical point of view, Italian Society of Modern Historians, Lecce (Italy) |
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Local elites and the transformation of the modern city, Groningen (Netherlands) |
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Rethinking television histories, Royal Holloway College/University of Utrecht, London (England) |
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Transnational History in European contexts, Avignon |
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Inventing Europe, European University Institute, Florence (Italy) |
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Social policy across borders, Cambridge University (England) |
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The city as a stage for international: Britain and Germany 1890-1914, German Historical Institute, London (England) |
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- Board member of:
- Planning perspectives, Taylor and Francis Group (1999-2009)
- Contemporary European History (Cambridge University Press)
- Urban History Review / Revue d’Histoire urbaine, Canada (2003-2009)
- The elecronic list H-Urban (1997-2009): See…
- Transnational History Series, Palgrave Macmillan
- Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire
(2008- )
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- Book review editor for Contemporary European History (1997-2004)
- European book review editor for H-Urban (1996-1999)
- Referee for Urban History Review, Planning Perspectives, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban History, Journal of Global History, SociologieS.
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TEACHING |
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- Professeur invité, Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire, Winter term 2006

- Visiting Lecturer (chargé de cours complémentaire), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2002-2004

- Visiting professor, University of Chicago (History and Sociology Departments), 2000-2001

- Lecturer in the graduate school (DEA Ville Espace Société), Université Lyon II (1995-2000)
- Lecturer in the graduate school (DEA Politiques publiques) of the École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État (1997-2000)
- PhDs and MAs supervision (Département de géographie
de l’Université Lyon 2, Institut d’Études Politiques de Grenoble)
- Invited lecturer at the University of Montréal (Canada) ∗ State University of New York at Albany ∗ Indiana University ∗ Case Western Reserve University (United States of America) ∗ University College, London ∗ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ∗ Université de Clermont-Ferrand ∗ Université Paris I ∗ École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud ∗ École Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (France) ∗ Politecnico di Torino (Italy) ∗ Trondheim Technological University (Norway)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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I–BOOKS
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- L’esprit
lyonnais XIXe-XXe siècle. Genèse d’une représentation
sociale, Paris: Éditions du CNRS, 1995
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- Co-direction avec Philippe Dujardin, Lyon, L’âme d’une ville (1850-1914), Lyon: Éditions Lyonnaises d’art et d’histoire, 1997
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- Avec Bruno DUMONS et Gilles POLLET Les élites municipales sous la Troisième République. Des villes du Sud-Est de la France, Paris: Éditions du CNRS, 1998 (second edition 2002)
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- Co-direction avec Michèle DAGENAIS (Université de Montréal) et Irene MAVER (University of Glasgow), Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City : New Historical Approaches, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003
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| II-CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED COLLECTIONS |
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- « Le syndrome d’Aladin
ou le génie des lieux comme objet pour les sciences sociales », in
Grange Daniel et Poulot Dominique (dir.), Le patrimoine et les aventures
de la modernité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1998
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- « Un espace toujours à part: La Croix-Rousse à Lyon »,
in Annie FOURCAUT, La ville divisée. Les ségrégations
urbaines en question, France XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Paris,
Créaphis, 1996
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- ‘Der Kult des Lokalen. Die Institutionalisierung lokaler Identität in Lyon im 19. Jahrhundert,’ in Thomas Höpel, Steffen Sammler (Hrsg.), Kulturpolitik und Stadtkultur
in Leipzig und Lyon (18.-20. Jahrhundert), Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag,
2004
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- ‘Introduction: Global City, Take 2: A View from Urban History,’ in Shane Ewen and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds, Another Global City. Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment 1850-2000, New York: Palgrave, 2008, p. 1-18
- with Renaud Payre, ‘A City in the World of Cities: Lyons, France; Municipal Associations as Political Resources in the Twentieth Century,’ in Shane Ewen and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds, Another Global City. Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment 1850-2000, New York: Palgrave, 2008, p. 69-85
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| III-ARTICLES |
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- « La ville et ses découpages », Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome. Italie et Méditerrannée, t.105, 1993 (publication des actes du colloque de septembre 1991 « Le quartier urbain en Europe (XVIIIe-XXe siècles). Approches et réalités »)
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- « Quartiers et intégration à la ville », 5e conférence internationale de recherche sur l’habitat, Montréal, juillet 1992, Ministère de l’Équipement, ronéotypé, 1993
- ‘A tale of pendular times. On board the Spirit of Saint Louis with Daniel
T.Rodgers,’ reprint of the H-Net symposium in American Studies
Journal, Number 44, Winter 1999/Spring 2000
- ‘A tale of pendular times. On board the Spirit of Saint Louis
with Daniel T.Rodgers,’reprint of the H-Net symposium in Historische
Sozial Forschung, N.2, vol.25, 2000
- ‘Going transnational ? News from down under,’ Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, vol.31, 2006, n.2, p. 118-131
- ‘Nolen, John’ and ‘Municipal Associations’ in David Goldfield (ed), Encyclopedia of American Urban History, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishers, 2007
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