Simon GODARD
Associate Professor
Contemporary History
Laboratory(ies): PACTE
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Keywords
- History of communism
- History of Europe
- History of the economy
- History of social sciences
Biography
Simon Godard is an associate professor of history specializing in the social history of the economy and 20th-century Communist Europe. His research focuses on the history of European integration and gender history. He has been a visiting scholar at several international institutions (ZZF in Potsdam; CCEAE in Montreal; GWZO in Leipzig; European University Institute in Florence) and is a CNRS-affiliated researcher at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin (2024–25). In 2025–26, he will lead a seminar at Humboldt University in Berlin as part of the Marc Bloch Chair.
Responsibilities
- Member of the editorial board of the Franco-German journal "A propos. Franco-German Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences"
Publications
Women's Europeanist networks and the gendering of EEC labour policies during the long 1960s (1957-74)
Simon Godard
European Review of History, 2026, 10.1080/13507486.2025.2545214
Laypeople and economic knowledge: dilemmas and hopes in cooperation education
Simon Godard
Historical Review, 2025, 3 (715), pp. 489–520. 10.3917/rhis.253.0489
Divided We Stand: The Legacy of Interwar Pan-European Debates in the Making of Socialist 'Economists' (1920s - Late 1950s)
Simon Godard
Contemporary European History, 2025, 35, pp. 1–18. 10.1017/S0960777325101136
The USSR and the challenge of international economic governance of the socialist bloc (1984-1990)
Simon Godard
Parlement[s], Journal of Political History, Special Issue, 2024, 39 (4), pp. 63–84. 10.3917/parl2.039.0063
The (un)measure of an ambition. Socialist figures to build the Bloc
Simon Godard
Fabien Cardoni; Anne Conchon; Michel Margairaz; Béatrice Touchelay. Private Figures, Public Figures: 17th–21st Centuries. Between Hybridization and Conflict, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 159–176, 2022, History, 978-2-7535-8649-9