Notes on contributors
Mathieu Fulla is Research Fellow at the Sciences Po Centre for History in Paris. He has recently co-edited with Michele Di Donato Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is currently working on a new book dealing with the relationship between West European Socialists and the ‘neoliberal paradigm’ from the late 1960s to Blairism.
Ben Heckscher teaches at the International School of Estonia, following a master’s degree in world history and a PhD in European integration at the London School of Economics.
Thomas Maineult teaches history and is completing a doctoral thesis at the Sciences Po Centre for History in Paris. His main research focus is on movements that support the Palestinian cause in France between 1967 and the end of the 1980s. He has published several articles on the French left and on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Tommaso Milani is a postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. A former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), he taught at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and Sciences Po, Paris. His first monograph, Hendrik de Man and Social Democracy: The Idea of Planning in Western Europe, 1914–1940, was published in 2020 (Palgrave Macmillan).
Pamela Ohene-Nyako is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in modern European history at the University of Geneva. Her research focuses on Black European women’s internationalism and intersectional thought from the 1960s to the 2000s. Her interests are in transnational history, Black intellectual thought, and modern Black and women’s history. She has recently published a peer-reviewed article on the transnational activism of French-Cameroonian feminist Lydie-Dood-Bunya (Journal of Women’s History, Fall, 2023).
Pedro Aires Oliveira is Associate Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH) and an integrated researcher at the IHC. His main research topics are diplomatic history, colonialism and decolonisation, on which he has published extensively, either in book format or in scholarly journals. His latest publication is Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century (co-edited with Philip J. Havik, Helena Pinto Janeiro and Irene Flunser Pimentel; Routledge, 2022).
Lubna Z. Qureshi is the author of Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam War: A Diplomatic History (Lexington Books, 2023) and Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile (Lexington Books, 2008). She holds a doctorate in American history, with an emphasis on US foreign policy, from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mélanie Torrent is Professor of British and Commonwealth history at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London). She became a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF) in 2016. Her most recent book, resulting from her research with the IUF, is Algerian Independence and the British Left: Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonizing World (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Andrew J. Williams is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His most recent books include France, Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century: 1900–1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and a second volume, 1940–1961 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); a third volume is in progress, covering 1961–1970. He is also planning a new book on ‘France and the International’, which will be a ‘history of ideas’.