Camille Fauroux | Postgraduate

Former Member
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
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Home Institution : Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | Disciplines : History |

Biography

 

Humboldt University, Berlin

October 2014-Present

Visiting student for one year

 

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

September 2009-Present

PhD under the supervision of Laura Lee Downs at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris

Dissertation topic : ‘French Women Workers in Nazi Germany : experiences, politics, memory, 1940-1945’ 

 

University of Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne

2008-2009

Preparation for the state competition for history (agregation)

  • Awarded in 2009

 

 

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

2006-2008

MA in History under the supervision of Laura Lee Downs at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

‘The departure of Women workers from France to Germany : Choices and constraints, 1940-1944’

  • Supervisor : Laura Lee Downs (CRH-EHESS).
  • Grade obtained :  Très bien

 


 
Scholarship

October 2014-October 2015

1-year PhD fellowship from the  foundation  of the Berlin House of Representatives (Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin) : visiting student at Humboldt University

 

November 2013- January 2014

2-month fellowship from the Marc Bloch Center, Berlin

visiting student at the research center in Berlin under the supervision of Dr. Klaus-Peter Sick

 

March-June 2012

3-month fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Germany (CIERA)

visit to different archives in Berlin and München

 

July 2010

Fellowship from the 2010 Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies at Minnesota University

Summer University at Minnesota University chaired by Prof. Dona Gabaccia and Prof. Mirjana Morokvasic, July 19th-30th.

 

September 2009-September 2012

3-year PhD scholarship from the Emilie du Châtelet Institute for the research on women, gender and sexuality

 


Researchtopic

Dissertation topic : ‘French Women Workers in Women workers leaving France for Nazi Germany : experiences, politics, memory’, 1940-1945’ 

Title of thesis
‘French Women Workers in Nazi Germany : experiences, politics, memory, 1940-1945’
Summary of thesis

My doctoral research concentrates on the politics, experiences and memory of the 50 000 to 100 000 French women who decided to work in Germany from 1940 to 1944 - a migration that has been completely erased from national memory. This phenomenon challenges the current state of historiography on the politics of women’s work in France, which, in contrast to the massive entrance of women in the war industry in the USA and Great Britain, focuses on the eviction of women from the labour market at that time. Moreover, I have established that these women didn’t consider their departure to be a political statement in favour of collaboration, although they definitely contributed to the occupiers’ war production. As a result, exploring this neglected history provides an opportunity to render more complex our understanding of the ambivalences of French people’s attitudes during the war. Third, drawing a picture of the everyday lives in Germany of these women that doesn’t focus only on their relations with Germans, but also takes into account the millions of foreigners who were in Germany at that time - as forced labourers, deportees or POWs - allows me to contribute to a social history of the war that shifts the focus away from the emphasis on Franco-German relations to become part of an entangled history of Europeans under Nazi rule.

 

My dissertation is based on extensive resarch in archives both in France and Germany. I draw from national archives to reveal the complexity of this phenomenon and to elaborate on the politics of work, repatriation and memory. To best draw a fine-grained description of the daily lives of these women in Germany, I also rely on archive material specifically documenting the situation in Berlin, such as judicial records of women workers suited during the war in the capital of Germany, or the Siemens archives, which were only recently opened to historians.

 

Supervisor
Laura Lee Downs (EHESS-EUI)
Publications

·       ‘Young women going to Germany : economical collaboration and family turmoil (1940-1944)’ ( ‘Des jeunes femmes partant pour l’Allemagne : politique de collaboration et désordre familial, 1940-1944’), in  Lydie Bodiou, Marlène Cacouault and Ludovic Gaussot (eds.), Genre, transmissions, transgressions, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014.

·       Article ‘Children of the Enemy’ (‘Enfant de l’ennemi’),  in  Jean-François Muracciole et and Guillaume Piketty (eds.), Encyclopédie de la Seconde guerre mondiale, Paris, Editions Robert Laffont,  forthcoming.

·       ‘Nazi family policy : a review from the books of Michelle Mouton and Lisa Pine’ (« La politique familiale nazie : une lecture croisée des ouvrages de Michelle Mouton et Lisa Pine »), Revue d’Allemagne et des Pays de langue allemande, T. 42, 1-2010.