Welcome
Welcome to the Pierre du Bois Foundation created in 2008, in accordance with the wishes of Pierre du Bois, who outlined its objectives long ago: to stimulate research in current history and to support researchers and students in this field.
Welcome to the Pierre du Bois Foundation created in 2008, in accordance with the wishes of Pierre du Bois, who outlined its objectives long ago: to stimulate research in current history and to support researchers and students in this field.
New | Nouveau – No 3, March 2024
Bernhard Blumenau, Senior Lecturer in International History and Politics at the University of St Andrews. Dr Johannes-Alexander Müller, University of St Andrews.
New | Nouveau – No 2, February 2024
Dr. Vassily Klimentov, SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer, History Department/Center for Eastern European Studies, University of Zurich
Conference | New – 18-19 October 2023
The Annual Pierre du Bois Conference ‘Women and Children as Sites of Intervention, Past, Present, Future’ organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation took place at Maison de la Paix in Geneva from 18-19 October 2023 and was a great success. Professor Nicole Bourbonnais organized the conference. More information will follow shortly.
New | Graduation Ceremony -September, 2023
Amal Shahid’s PhD dissertation ‘The Political Economy of Famine Relief: Labour, Colonialism, and Public Works in
the North-Western Provinces of India, c. 1860-1920′ won the annual Pierre du Bois Prize awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis.
Learn more about the award-winning thesis