Hélène Miard-Delacroix

Hélène Miard-Delacroix (born 5 November 1959) is a French historian and Germanist, specializing in the history of Germany and Franco-German relations. She is a professor at Sorbonne University.^[1] Her expertise in research on Franco-German relations and her commitment to scholarly exchange between the two countries found international recognition in 2022 with the Reimar Lüst Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for leading international scholars.^[2]

Prof. Dr. Hélène Miard-Delacroix
Born	5 November 1959 Saint-Mandé, France
Occupations	Historian Germanist professor
Known for	Commitment to scholarly exchange between France and Germany
Awards	Reimar Lüst Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	Paris-Sorbonne University
Thesis	Le chancelier Helmut Schmidt et la France : 1974-1982 (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Gérard Schneilin
Academic work
Discipline	Franco-German relations
Sub-discipline	history of Germany since 1945 political, economic and social life in contemporary Germany Franco-German relations and European integration
Institutions	Sorbonne University

Early life and education

Hélène Miard-Delacroix was born in Saint-Mandé, 5 November 1959.^[3]

She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Fontenay-aux-Roses [fr] (1980-85). She holds an agrégation in German; a Master of Advanced Studies in International relations from Sciences Po in Paris; and a doctorate and a habilitation to direct research from Paris-Sorbonne University.

Career and research

During the period of 1990-93, Mirard-Delacroix served as a docent at the University of Tours (1990-93), while also teaching at Sciences Po. She served as a docent at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1993-98 and as a professor at École normale supérieure de Lyon between 2003 and 2008.

Since then, she has held the position of Professor of History and Civilization of Contemporary Germany at the UFR of Germanic and Nordic Studies of Sorbonne University. She is attached to the UMR SIRICE 8138,^[a][b] a research laboratory on the history of international relations,^[4] and is president of the GIP CIERA.^[5][c][d]

Her fields of research include the history of Germany since 1945; political, economic and social life in contemporary Germany; as well as Franco-German relations and European integration. In this capacity, she participates as an expert and is a consultant for the media (such as Arte, Radio France,^[6] France 5,^[7] and France 24).

Her work on Franco-German relations is marked by the desire to go beyond comparatism to write a mixed history that accounts for the entanglements and interactions between the two countries. She thus continues the cross-history approach adopted in her volume on the history of Franco-German relations since the Élysée Treaty, published in 2011, Le défi européen. Histoire franco-allemande de 1963 à nos jours.^[8] Some of her works, carried out in the context of collective opening of public archives, reassess dynamics in the last decades of the Cold War and reconsider achievements concerning bilateral negotiations and Germany's role in European construction.^[9][10][11] Her current research focuses on the history of emotions^[12] in international relations.

 

(2013)

Miard-Delacroix is a member of numerous scientific boards of German and French research institutions. In the 2010s, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute Paris, and later as President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung,^[13] and Vice President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Contemporary History based in Munich and Berlin. ^[14] She is currently a member of the scientific advisory board of the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn, the House of European History in Brussels,^[15] the François Mitterrand Institute,^[16] IFRA-SHS^[17][e] in Frankfurt, and the Centre Ernst Robert Curtius (CERC)^[18] at the University of Bonn. She is a member of the Commission pour la publication des documents diplomatiques français (Commission for the publication of French diplomatic documents).

In Germany, she is a member of the KGParl Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien (Commission for the History of Parliament and Political Parties), Berlin.^[19] Since 2020, she has been a member of the Senate of the Leibniz Association,^[20] one of the German steering bodies for non-university research.

Her list of publications includes several monographs, editorships of books, and about 100 contributions to collectives or articles in peer-reviewed journals.^[1] Since 2015, Miard-Delacroix has been an appointed co-editor of the journal Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AAPD) (Diplomatic Acts of the Federal Republic of Germany),^[2] Berlin.

Awards and honours

• 1991, Prix Strasbourg, doctorate thesis (Partenaires de choix? Le chancelier Schmidt et la France 1974-1982)
• 2012, Prix Maurice Baumont, Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
• 2017, Prix international de la recherche, Fondation Max Weber
• 2022, Reimar Lüst Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation^[21]

Distinctions

• 2007, Knight, Ordre des Palmes académiques
• 2010, Knight, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2018, Knight, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques^[22]
• 2019, Chevalière de l’Ordre national du mérite

Selected works

Books

• Ennemis héréditaires ? Un dialogue franco-allemand, with Andreas Wirsching, Paris, Fayard, 2020
• Von Erbfeinden zu guten Nachbarn. Ein deutsch-französischer Dialog, with Andreas Wirsching, Stuttgart, Reclam, 2019
• Willy Brandt, Life of a Statesman, London, New-York, I.B. Tauris, 2016
• Willy Brandt, Paris, Fayard, 2013
• Le défi européen. Histoire Franco-allemande de 1963 à nos jours, Lille-Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses du Septentrion, 2011.
• Deutsch-französische Geschichte 1963 bis in die Gegenwart. Im Zeichen der Europäischen Einigung. Band 11, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2011.
• Question nationale et nationalisme. Perceptions françaises d’une problématique allemande au début des années cinquante, Lille-Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses du Septentrion, 2004.
• Allemagne, with Alfred Grosser, Paris, Flammarion, collection Dominos, 1994.
• Partenaires de choix ? Le Chancelier Helmut Schmidt et la France, Berne, Paris, New York, Peter Lang, 1993.

Notes

1. UMR: Unité mixte de recherche
2. SIRICE: Sorbonne, Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations de l'Europe (Sorbonne, Identities, International Relations and Civilizations of Europe)
3. GIP: Groupement d'intérêt public [fr] (public interest group)
4. CIERA: Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne (Interdisciplinary Center for Studies and Research on Germany)
5. IFRA-SHS: Institut franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales (Franco-German Institute for Historical and Social Sciences)

References

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2. "Le Prix international Reimar Lüst décerné à Hélène Miard-Delacroix". Sorbonne Université (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
3. "MIARD-DELACROIX Hélène cv" (pdf). sorbonne-universite.fr (in French). March 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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5. "Qui sommes nous ?". www.ciera.fr (in French). CIERA. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
6. "Hélène Miard-Delacroix : podcasts et actualités". Radio France (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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8. "Le défi européen, de 1963 à nos jours volume 11". www.septentrion.com (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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10. "« H. Miard-Delacroix,, "Abschied vom Kalten Krieg. Das internationale System seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre", in: Tim Geiger, Jürgen Lillteicher, Hermann Wentker (Hrsg.), Zwei plus Vier. Die internationale Gründungsgeschichte der Berliner Republik, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 19-30 »". sehepunkte.org (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
11. "« 6. H. Miard-Delacroix, « L'Allemagne fédérale, la sécurité et le projet d'Europe politique dans les années 1980 », in : Laurent Warlouzet, Stanislas Jeannesson, Frédéric Turpin (dir.), Europe, États et milieux économiques au XXe siècle, Düren, Shaker Verlag, 2021, pp. 249-261 »". amazon.de (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
12. Sangar, Éric (7 July 2021). "Hélène Miard-Delacroix, Andreas Wirsching (Hg.), Emotionen und internationale Beziehungen im Kalten Krieg, Berlin (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2020". Francia-Recensio (in French). doi:10.11588/frrec.2021.2.81996. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
13. "Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung". Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt Stiftung (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
14. "Institut für Zeitgeschichte: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat". archive.wikiwix.com (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
15. "BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ACADEMIC COMMITTEE". historia-europa.ep.eu (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
16. "Le Conseil scientifique" (in French). Institut François Mitterrand. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
17. "CONSEIL SCIENTIFIQUE". ifra-francfort.fr (in French). Institut franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
18. "Wissenschaftlicher Beirat — pl_cerc". www.cerc.uni-bonn.de (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
19. "Vorstand & Mitglieder". kgparl (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
20. "Leibniz-Gemeinschaft: Organe". www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
21. "Prof. Dr. Helene Miard-Delacroix". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
22. "Décret du 15 novembre 2018 portant promotion et nomination". www.legifrance.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2023.

External links

• CV, via Sorbonne University, 2022