Florence Petroff
La Rochelle Université
Research Units
Member In the research unit:
Head of the RU: Cecile Chantraine Braillon
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Bio
I am an associate professor in early modern history at the University of La Rochelle. My research focuses on the circulation of ideas and representations across the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The topics I’m addressing are the American Revolution from British, American, and French perspectives, the writing of history, museums and learned societies in Scotland and the United-States.
Degrees
PhD in American history at the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, with distinction, under the supervision of Professor Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. “Scotland and America in the Imperial Crisis: Mutual Perceptions and Hybrid Identities within the Anglo-American World (1765–1783).”. 2020
Projects
Exhibition on the French and the American Revolution.
01/01/2024 - 01/10/2026
I'm currently working on an exhibition that will take place in 2026 at the Museum of the New World in La Rochelle. It will illustrate the multifaceted reaction of the monarchy and of the people in France to the American Revolution.
Scotland's maritime identity in the work of naturalists and historians of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland
01/09/2023 - 01/03/2025
This project explores the contribution of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to the forging of a Scottish identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It examines how naturalists and antiquarians (or historians) joined efforts to excavate traces of the past and how they took the sea and the seashore into account in their definition of the Scottish identity.