Current Member
Cécile Vidal
Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Early Modern European Empires, Atlantic
Home Institution
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Website
Cécile Vidal is a social historian of colonial empires, the slave trade, and slavery in the Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. While at IAS, she will be working on a new research project on suicide, the slave trade, and slavery in the French and British Atlantics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
Spring
Degrees
Sorbonne Université
Habilitation
2014
EHESS
Ph.D.
1995