Rate My Professor Quentin Deluermoz

Quentin Deluermoz is a British Academy Global Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, holding this position from September 2025 to 2029. He earned his PhD from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2006 and passed the French national competitive teaching examination in History, the agrégation, in 1999. Prior to his Cambridge appointment, he was Professor of contemporary history at Université Paris Cité, where he co-founded the ECHELLES laboratory (UMR, Université Paris Cité/CNRS) in 2025, dedicated to an imperial and global re-reading of European and North American history over the longue durée. Deluermoz has taught at Université Paris 1, EHESS, École normale supérieure, and Sciences Po Paris. He has held visiting appointments at the Open University, the University of Tirana, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Mora, the University of Mumbai, and Université du Québec à Montréal. He is a founding member and editorial board member of Sensibilités: Histoire, critique et sciences sociales, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals in history and political science.

Deluermoz's research specializes in the social and cultural history of orders and disorders in nineteenth-century France, Europe, and empires. His work examines police–society relations in European capitals, urban sensibilities, the formation of the French imperial nation-state, global re-readings of the Paris Commune and revolutionary phenomena, and the question of 'past futures.' Methodologically, it engages with sociology and anthropology, micro-historical, imperial, and global approaches, and emphasizes lived experiences, discordance of temporalities, collaborative research, and public engagement through shared history workshops, co-produced research, theatre, and contemporary art. Key publications include The Paris Commune: A Global History (forthcoming 2026, Verso; French edition 2021); A Past of Possibilities: A History of What Could Have Been (Yale University Press, 2021, with P. Singaravélou; French edition 2016); Le Crépuscule des révolutions 1848–1871 (Le Seuil, 2012); Policiers dans la ville: La construction d’un ordre public à Paris (1854–1914) (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012); and edited volumes such as Une histoire globale des révolutions (La Découverte, 2023, with L. Bantigny et al.) and D’ici et d’ailleurs, histoires globales de la France contemporaine (La Découverte, 2021). His British Academy Global Professorship supports the project Rethinking Nineteenth-Century European Modernities (£891,157), featuring investigations into the afterlives of the Paris Commune and comparative human–tree relations in Provence and Kabylia.