Dominique Kalifa
Dominique Kalifa is a French historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he is director of the Centre of 19th Century History[1] and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A student of Michelle Perrot, he specialises in the history of crime, transgression, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th France and Europe. He also teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) from 2008 and reviews for the French newspaper Libération. His last book was devoted to the underworld and its role in the Western imagination. He is currently working on a new project about the concept of "Belle Epoque" and the ways 20th century France has represented the turn of the century.
Books
- L’Encre et le Sang. Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Époque, Fayard, Paris, 1995.
- Naissance de la police privée, Plon, Paris, 2000.
- La Culture de masse en France, tome 1 1860–1930, La Découverte, Paris, 2001.
- Vidal le tueur de femmes. Une biographie sociale (with Philippe Artières), Perrin, Paris, 2001.
- Imaginaire et sensibilités au XIXe siècle (with Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini), Creaphis, Paris, 2005.
- Crime et culture au XIXe siècle, Perrin, Paris, 2005.
- L'Enquête judiciaire en Europe au XIXe siècle (ed), Creaphis, Paris, 2007.
- Le Commissaire de police au XIXe siècle (ed), Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008.
- Crimen y cultura de masas en Francia, siglos XIX-XX, Instituto Mora, Mexico, 2008.
- Biribi. Les bagnes coloniaux de l'armée française, Paris, Perrin, 2009.
- La Civilisation du journal. Histoire culturelle et littéraire de la presse au XIXe siècle (ed), Nouveau Monde, Paris, 2011.
- Les bas-fonds. Histoire d'un imaginaire, Seuil, Paris, 2013.
- Atlas du crime à Paris, du Moyen Age à nos jours (with J.-C. Farcy), Paris, Parigramme, 2015.
In English : “Crime Scenes: Criminal Topography and Social Imaginary in Nineteenth Century Paris”, French historical studies, vol. 27, n° 1, 2004, p. 175-194 ; “Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siècle”, Yale French Studies, n° 108, 2005, p. 36-47 ; “What is now cultural history about?”, in Robert Gildea and Anne Simonin (eds), Writing Contemporary History, London, Hodder Education, 2008, p. 47-56; « The Press », in E. Berenson, V. Duclert & C. Prochasson (eds), The French Republic. History, Values, Debates, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2011, p. 189-196; “Minotaur”, Journal of Modern History, vol. 84, n° 4, 2012, p. 980-982.