Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

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French historian (born 1935)

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Coquery-Vidrovitch in 2011
Born	(1935-11-25) November 25, 1935 (age 89) Paris, France
Education	École normale supérieure de Sèvres, École pratique des hautes études
Occupation(s)	Historian, Africanist
Known for	Research on colonization, imperialism, and capitalism in Africa

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (born 25 November 1935 in Paris) is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.

Biography

She graduated from the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in 1959. She earned her third cycle doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études in 1966. She was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 1987, at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and at the Humanities Research Center, University of Canberra at the University of Canberra in 1995.

Her research deals with the political issues of colonization as well as the idea of imperialism and capitalism in Africa.

References

^ "COQUERY-VIDROVITCH Catherine - Société française d'histoire des outre-mers". www.sfhom.com. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

External links

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)

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