Rate My Professor Quentin Deluermoz

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.