Dr Madeline Woker

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Lecturer in Modern European History

Madeline Woker
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m.woker@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2608
Tuesdays 9-11 am (in person).

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Dr Madeline Woker
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Profile

I am a historian of Modern France, French and European colonialism, capitalism, and taxation.

I was previously a fellow at IAS Zürich, a fixed-term Assistant Professor of History at the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown º£½ÇÉçÇø. I also serve as the Secretary of the Society for French Historical Studies.


I obtained my PhD from Columbia º£½ÇÉçÇø where my dissertation was awarded the Clough Prize for the best dissertation in European history. I also hold an MPhil in Modern European History from the º£½ÇÉçÇø of Cambridge and a dual Msc degree in European affairs from LSE and Sciences Po.

My work has appeared in Past & Present, the Journal of Global History as well as edited volumes. I am currently finishing a book about the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire between the 1850s and the 1950s, and I regularly write for a larger audience about the history and politics of international taxation and the afterlives of empire and colonialism. I also a co-editor of a special issue of the journal Marronnnages on racial capitalism

More information is available on my personal website: www.madelinewoker.com

Qualifications

PhD in International and Global History, Columbia º£½ÇÉçÇø (2020)
MPhil Modern European History, Cambridge º£½ÇÉçÇø (2014)

Research interests

French and European colonialism, Modern France and Europe, race, taxation, capitalism, history and politics of global economic/tax governance.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Woker M, Ford C & Gosnell J (2022) . French Politics, Culture & Society, 40(1), 128-137. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Woker M (2018) . Journal of Global History, 13(3), 352-373. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Woker M () . Past & Present. RIS download Bibtex download