Michaël Roy

Professor of US History - Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (2020-25

michael.roy@u-paris.fr

Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles

Research

Research themes

  • US History (18th and 19th centuries)
  • Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
  • African American Print Cultures
  • African American Intellectual History
  • Transnational History

Research Supervision:

  • US History (18th and 19th centuries)
  • Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
  • Antebellum Reform Movements
  • History of Childhood and Youth
  • Transnational History
  • Book History and Print Culture Studies

Current Project

Bio

Education and Academic Positions:

  • Professor of US History, Université Paris Cité, 2024-
  • Associate Professor of US History, Université Paris Nanterre, 2016-24
  • PhD, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 2015

Administrative Responsibilities:

  • Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) lecture series, co-organizer
  • Institut des Amériques, scientific committee
  • Transatlantica, editorial board
  • Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture, scientific committee
  • Society for Textual Scholarship, board

Media

    Publications

    Articles

    • Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement, New York, New York University Press, 2024.
    • Anthologie de la pensée noire. États-Unis et Haïti (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles), Marseille, Hors d’atteinte, 2023 (dirigée avec Marlene L. Daut, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol et Cécile Roudeau).
    • Récits d’esclaves. S’émanciper, écrire et publier dans l’Amérique du XIXe siècle, Paris, Payot, 2022.
    • Léon Chautard. Un socialiste en Amérique (1812-1890), Paris, Anamosa, 2021.
    • De l’antiesclavagisme à l’abolition de l’esclavage. États-Unis, 1776-1865, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Atlande, 2018.