Dr Daniel Gordon
Daniel was born in London in 1975. He did his first degree in Modern History at Oxford University, before moving to Sussex University to do an MA in Contemporary History (including a dissertation on the killings of Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961), and a DPhil on ‘Immigrants and the New Left in France, 1968-1971’. As the recipient of an Entente Cordiale Scholarship from the French Cultural Service in the UK, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nice in 2001-2002.
He was then the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and temporary Lecturer in History at Jesus College, Oxford, before his appointment at Edge Hill University in 2003. From 2005 to 2009 he was Publicity Officer for the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF), and he has been Chair of ASMCF’s North West regional group since its launch at Edge Hill University in 2006. In November 2009 he was elected to the Steering Committee of History UK (HE) and in January 2012 was appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Modern and Contemporary France.
He is the author of many articles and contributions to edited volumes, and his book Immigrants And Intellectuals: May '68 And The Rise Of Anti-Racism In France is published in paperback by Merlin Press on 2 April 2012. It will be launched at the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford on Tuesday 6 March, and in the Department of English and History at Edge Hill on Wednesday 18 April (1-2 pm in Room CH9). He will also be speaking about this book at Nanterre University, France (Wednesday 21 March) and at Housmans Bookshop, London (Wednesday 2 May at 7pm).'
Having experienced a range of different institutions, he is very aware of what is special about what History at Edge Hill has to offer students: the unusual combination of a proud record of widening access to higher education with a level of individual support comparable to that of more traditional universities. You may get to sample his cooking at the History Society’s annual party.
Research
- French political and social history – twentieth century
- Immigration, racism and antiracism
- The international movements of 1968
Publications
Books
- Immigrants And Intellectuals: May '68 And The Rise Of Anti-Racism In France (London: Merlin Press, 2012)
Articles and chapters
- 'Reaching out to immigrants in May '68: specific or universal appeals?' in Julian Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne and James Williams, eds, May '68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 93-108
- ‘A ‘Mediterranean New Left’? Comparing and Contrasting the French PSU and the Italian PSIUP’, Contemporary European History, vol 19, no 4 (November 2010), pp. 309-330
- ‘Memories of 1968 in France: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary’ in Sarah Waters and Ingo Cornils, eds, Memories of 1968: International Perspectives (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 49-78
- ‘Le PSU et les luttes de l’immigration: perspectives nationales et internationales’ in Tudi Kernalegenn, François Prigent, Gilles Richard and Jacqueline Sainclivier, eds, Le PSU vu d’en bas. Réseaux sociaux, mouvement politique, laboratoire d’idées (années 1950-années 1980) (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009), pp. 327-336
- ‘Review Article: History at Last? 1968-2008’, Modern and Contemporary France, vol 17, no 3 (August 2009), pp. 335-342
- ‘Liquidating May ’68? Generational Trajectories of the 2007 Presidential Candidates’, Modern and Contemporary France, vol 16, no 2 (May 2008), pp. 143-159
- ‘Review Article: Three New Works by Azouz Begag’, H France Review, vol 7 (October 2007), no. 118
- ‘Daniel Guérin et le movement des travailleurs immigrés en France après 1968’, in David Berry, ed, Daniel Guérin, révolutionnaire en movement(s), Dissidences, vol 2 (March 2007)
- ‘Controlling the streets in May 1968’ in Jessica Wardhaugh, ed, Paris and the Right in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2007)
- ‘Review Article: From May to October: Reassessing the 1968 Generation’, Modern and Contemporary France vol. 13, no. 2 (May 2005)
- ‘The Back Door of the Nation State: political expulsions and continuity in twentieth century France’, Past and Present, no. 186 (February 2005)
- ‘ ‘‘A Nanterre, ça bouge’’: immigrés et gauchistes en banlieue, 1968 à 1971’, Historiens et Géographes, no 385 (January 2004)
- ‘Acteurs transméditerranéens dans un quartier cosmopolite: juifs et musulmans, entre tolérance et conflit, à Belleville (Paris XXe)’, Cahiers de la Méditerrannée, (December 2003)
- ‘ ‘‘Il est recommandé aux étrangers de ne pas participer’’: les étrangers expulsés en mai-juin 1968’, Migrations Société, no. 88 (July-August 2003)
- ‘World reactions to the 1961 Paris Pogrom’, University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History, no 1 (Sep 2000)