Professional Careers

The master programme in history is the first step towards doctoral studies in history as well as towards teaching and research positions either in France or abroad. The programme encourages international student and research exchanges and mobility. 

In addition, the master programme welcomes students who have a strong interest in history and plan to endorse professional careers within other sectors of activity such as the public sector, heritage sector, library and archives sector, cultural and audiovisual industry, editing, press and media sectors. 

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Professional training for doctoral students proposed by the School of Research 
Careers of Sciences Po PhDs and HDRs
Galaxie portal for higher education staff 

Here are a few examples of courses

Autumn 2024

Anatole LE BRAS is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He specialises in the social and cultural history of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. Anatole is the author of Un enfant à l'asile. Vie de Paul Taesch (1874-1914), (CNRS Editions, 2018) and Aliénés. Une histoire sociale de la folie au XIXe siècle, published in 2024 by Editions du CNRS. Her research was recently the subject of the first episode of the podcast ‘Dans l'atelier des historiens’.

Laura PETTINAROLI is now Professor of Contemporary History at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. An associate researcher at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po, her research focuses on the links between religious events and international issues. Her work covers a range of fields, including Vatican diplomacy, atheism, interfaith relations and international religious institutions. Laura also sits on the editorial boards of Histoire@Politique, the Revue de l'histoire des religions, and the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity.

November 2024

Michele DI DONATO, researcher in contemporary history, joined the University of Roma Tre in November 2024, after having been at the University of Pisa from 2019 to 2023. He was a visiting researcher and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the LSE and at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po. His research focuses on the international history of the European lefts, the Cold War and globalisation. Michele is also a member of the scientific steering committee of Gramsci.
Rediscover Michele Di Donato's book with Mathieu Fulla: Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History , Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

March 2023

Giacomo CANEPA, winner of the Vinci post-doctoral fellowship from the Franco-Italian University, associated with the Centre d'histoire de sciences Po, Giacomo is a post-doctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale superiore in Pisa where his research focuses on the history of social protection in Europe in the 20th century.

Bérénice BERNARD was awarded the Gesellschaft für Türkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung (GTOT) prize for her master's thesis on the development of pre-school education in Turkey (thesis defended in May 2022 under the supervision of Paul-André Rosental).

Anatole LE BRAS has just been awarded the ‘Young Researcher’ prize by the Treilles 2023 Foundation.

February 2023

Isabelle DELORME, a researcher associated with the Centre d'histoire, has been awarded a national research grant by the Red Cross Foundation on the theme ‘Humanitarian and social actors at the heart of the crisis of Ukrainian exiles in France’.

Louise FRACEZON, a Sciences Po Masters graduate, has just been awarded the Prix Mnemosyne (gender history prize).

January 2023

Romain JAOUEN, a doctoral student at the CHSP, has just been awarded the 2022 Gender Studies Research Grant by the City of Paris.

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) has awarded CHSP doctoral student Evan BONNEY the Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Fellowship to finish writing his dissertation.