Dr Madeline Woker

I am a historian of Modern France, French and European colonialism, capitalism, and taxation.

I was previously a fellow at IAS Zürich, a fixed-term Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University. I also serve as the Secretary of the Society for French Historical Studies.

I obtained my PhD from Columbia University where my dissertation was awarded the Clough Prize for the best dissertation in European history. I also hold an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a dual Msc degree in European affairs from LSE and Sciences Po.

My work has appeared in Past & Present, the Journal of Global History as well as edited volumes. I am currently finishing a book about the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire between the 1850s and the 1950s, and I regularly write for a larger audience about the history and politics of international taxation and the afterlives of empire and colonialism. I also a co-editor of a special issue of the journal Marronnnages on racial capitalism

More information is available on my personal website: www.madelinewoker.com