Elizabeth Marcus (Incoming Fellow 2024-25)

Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University

While at SCAS during the academic year 2024–2025, Elizabeth Marcus will be at work on her second
monograph, France’s Global University: Education, Empire and Transnational Entanglements. This
book examines left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses
(1945–1975) at the Cité international universitaire de Paris, a residential campus built in the spirit of inter-
national humanism in the wake of World War I. In this thirty-year period, the Cité U was more than a
simple dormitory: it came to represent and act as a hub of the global life of the city, an early locus of
global migration, and a new model of global education. This interdisciplinary project will bring to light
unexpected connections between social anthropology, postcolonial studies, and global and cultural history
and offer a new window onto the post-war and post-colonial moment. France’s Global University will
ultimately show how uncover how a hybrid groups of migrants to France led to the production of novel
orders of knowledge, fields of action and cultural imaginaries of the mid-century.