Daniel Lee is a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. He received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2011. After a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lee was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield before his appointment at Queen Mary University of London in 2019.

Lee’s first book, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–42 (2014), explored the coexistence between French Jews and the Vichy regime. His second book, The SS Officer’s Armchair (2020), examined the life of an SS officer from Stuttgart whose personal documents were discovered inside an armchair. Lee was recently the Principal Investigator on the British Academy project, “Traces of Jewish Memory in Contemporary Tunisia”, as well as the AHRC-DfG project, “Jewish Pimps, Prostitutes & Campaigners in a Transnational German & British Context”.

As a SCAS Fellow, Daniel Lee will be working on his third monograph, The Roundup: Marseille, January 1943, which moves attention away from the perpetrators and back to the victims of the roundup of Jews in France. As the holder of the Swedish Research Council’s Visiting Researcher Grant in research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, Lee will work with various Swedish research institutions to implement workshops, seminars, public history events and mentoring opportunities for junior colleagues in Holocaust Studies.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.