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

 

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

 

TRAINING

 
  • 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
  • Thèse de doctorat en histoire (PhD in history), Université Lumière-Lyon II, 1992 (Download…)
  • postdoctoral fellowship: Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, 1993-1994
 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES, RESEARCH

 
  • 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   
 
  • 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.
    2003 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    2009 panel ‘Globalizing historical reference encyclopedias and textbooks : treats and caveats’, American Historical Association meeting, New York City (USA).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)
    2003 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)
    2007 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
    2009 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):
    1991 City words, UNESCO, Paris
    2002 European Reconstructions: science policies and urban planning, Università di Bologna (Italy)
    2003 Cities as transnational actors, European Science Foundation, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
    2003 Globalization as an historiographical point of view, Italian Society of Modern Historians, Lecce (Italy)
    2005 Local elites and the transformation of the modern city, Groningen (Netherlands)
    2007 Rethinking television histories, Royal Holloway College/University of Utrecht, London (England)
    2008 Transnational History in European contexts, Avignon
    2008 Inventing Europe, European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
    2008 Social policy across borders, Cambridge University (England)
    2009 The city as a stage for international: Britain and Germany 1890-1914, German Historical Institute, London (England)
     
 
  • 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- )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

  • 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.
 
 

TEACHING

 
  • 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)
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I–BOOKS AND COLLECTIONS

  • L’esprit lyonnais XIXe-XXe siècle. Genèse d’une représentation sociale, Paris: Éditions du CNRS, 1995
  • Co-direction avec Philippe Dujardin, Lyon, L’âme d’une ville (1850-1914), Lyon: Éditions Lyonnaises d’art et d’histoire, 1997
  • 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)
  • 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
 

II-CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED COLLECTIONS

 
  • « 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
  • « 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
  • ‘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
 

III-ARTICLES

 
  • « 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 »)
  • « 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