Camille Creyghton is assistant professor of Political History. She researches and publishes within the domains of intellectual history, history of political culture and cultural history from the end of the 18th until the first half of the 20th century. Currently, she is working on a research project on the transfer of ideas among political exiles from various national backgrounds in a couple of European cities in the period 1830-1848. Her main interests concern questions about revolution and exile, political representation, historical culture and and European thought. Her PhD thesis on the afterlife of the French historian Jules Michelet in French historiography and politics since 1870 has been published with Éditions de l’EHESS in 2019.
She published in Anglophone, Dutch and Francophone academic journals. In addition, she regularly contributes to publications for a wider audience, such as De Nederlandse Boekengids/Dutch Review of Books and La Vie des idées. During her studies, she participated in the development of a textbook series for history education for Flemish secondary schools, entitled Passages. She also was a freelance theatre critic for Theaterkrant.nl, an online magazine for the performing arts, and in 2020 she obtained the ‘Banning award’ for young political thinkers in the Netherlands.
http://editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouvrage/resurrections-de-michelet/