Dr. Noëmie Duhaut

Personal Details:
Noëmie Duhaut studied Eastern European and Jewish history at University College London and the University of Belgrade. Since 2019, she has been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on Jewish internationalism in the context of post-Ottoman state-building in the Balkans in the nineteenth century. Her second book project is a biography of the French Jewish lawyer and politician Adolphe Crémieux.
Duhaut received her PhD from University College London and held fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Posen Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Paris, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Central European University in Budapest, and Dartmouth College.
In 2021-22, she was the Kurt-David-Brühl guest professor (with a focus on Jewish history and culture in Southeast Europe) at the University of Graz. For the academic year 2022/2023, she was a fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Duhaut received her PhD from University College London and held fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Posen Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Paris, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Central European University in Budapest, and Dartmouth College.
In 2021-22, she was the Kurt-David-Brühl guest professor (with a focus on Jewish history and culture in Southeast Europe) at the University of Graz. For the academic year 2022/2023, she was a fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests:
Modern European history
Jewish politics and diplomacy
Religious internationalism
Legal history
Imperial history
French history
Selected publications:
Introduction: Writing European History in 2022, Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook 22, edited by Noëmie Duhaut and Johannes Paulmann (2022): 1–8.
Europe Across Boundaries, ed. by Noëmie Duhaut and Johannes Paulmann, Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook 22 (2022)
Will The Sale Of A Rare Manuscript Rescue Jewish Studies In France?, K. Jews, Europe, the XXIst century (2021). (op-ed piece)
'A French Jew Emancipated the Blacks': Discursive Strategies of French Jews in the Age of Transnational Emancipations, French Historical Studies 44:4 (2021): 645–74.
L’Alliance israélite universelle, les Juifs roumains et l’idée d’Europe, Archives juives 53:2 (2020): 72–89.
Memberships:
Association for Jewish Studies
European Association for Jewish Studies
French Colonial Historical Society
WAG Postdoc-Netzwerk für Jüdische Studien
Society for the Study of French History
Society for French Historical Studies
Western Society for French History
World Union of Jewish Studies
Histoire et sociologie des judaïsmes contemporains (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, UMR 8582 CNRS EPHE-PSL)
Research projects:
A European-French Patriot? Adolphe Crémieux as a champion of minority rights across imperial borders
The project aims at a biography of the French lawyer, statesman and Jewish activist Adolphe Crémieux (1796-1880). It asks how Crémieux acted in transnational, European and colonial contexts, how the different fields of action influenced each other, and how Crémieux was later integrated into different narratives of Jewish history.