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Dr Aaron Clift

Dr Aaron Clift

Visiting Teaching Fellow

Department of International History

Email
A.Clift@lse.ac.uk
Room No
SAR 3.16
Languages
English, French
Key Expertise
Modern France/French Empire; global Cold War; decolonisation; anticommunism

About me

Dr. Aaron Clift is a ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Fellow in Cold War History. He is a historian of modern France and the global Cold War. His research interests include France and the French Empire in the Cold War; anticommunism in France and globally; and, the international history of decolonisation in Southeast Asia and North Africa. He received his BA from the University of Victoria, his MA from the University of Toronto, and his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Prior to coming to the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, he was a Postdoctoral History Scholar at the University of Calgary and a Lecturer in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford.

Expertise Details

Modern France/French Empire; global Cold War; decolonisation; anticommunism

Publications
Book

Anticommunism in French Politics and Society, 1945-1953, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).

Book Chapters

‘Anti-communists, Communists, and Migrants in France, 1917-1953,’ in A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of Two World Wars (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022): 187-198.

‘“L'homme au couteau entre les dents” and the “Classes dangereuses”: Continuities in Anticommunist Discourse in France,’ in Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022): 93-118.

Teaching

Undergraduate level

HY206: The International History of the Cold War; HY320 - The Cold War Endgame

HY320: The Cold War Endgame

Postgraduate level:

HY432: From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999

Scholarships and Awards
Ralph Gibson Bursary from the Society for the Study of French History

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