Dr. Pierre-Yves Saunier

UMR environnement ville société

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)

Research and projects

Current position(s)

chargé de recherche

Current project(s)

Worlds of nursing: an investigation of how nursing as a discipline, a know how and a profession has been shaped by transnational conversations from the mid nineteenth century, as its new definition based on laicization, feminization and professionalization took hold.

Former position(s)

visiting professor, University of Chicago
visiting professor, Université de Montréal
chargé de conférence complémentaire, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

L'esprit lyonnais XIX°-XX° siècle. Genèse d'une représentation sociale, Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1995.
Co-auteur avec Bruno Dumons et Gilles Pollet, Les élites municipales sous la Troisième République. Des villes du Sud-Est de la France, Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1998 (deuxième édition 2002).

Articles

‘Sketches from the Urban Internationale. Voluntary societies, international organizations and US Foundations at the city’s bedside 1900-1960’, International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, 25, 2 june 2001, p.380-403
‘Taking up the bet of connections: a municipal contribution, Contemporary European History, ‘Municipal connections: cooperation, links and transfers among European cities in the 20th century’, 11, 4, 2002
'Administrer le monde? Les fondations philanthropiques et la public administration aux Etats-Unis', Revue Française de Science Politique, 53, 2, 2003, p.237-255
‘Learning by doing: writing transnational history in Europe and beyond’, Journal of Modern European History, 6, 2, 2008
‘Trajectoires, projets et ingénierie de la convergence et de la différence: les régimes circulatoires du domaine social 1800-1940’, Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, 71, juin 2008

Edited volumes

Contemporary European History, ‘Municipal connections: cooperation, links and transfers among european cities in the 20th century’, Vol.11, No.4, novembre 2002
with Michèle Dagenais and Irene Maver, eds, Municipal services and employees in the modern city: new historical approaches, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003
with Shane Ewen, The other global city. Explorations into the transnational municipal moment 1850-2000, London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan
with Akira Iriye, eds, Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Areas of research

urban history, transnational history, history of public administration, nursing history, social policies history, social history

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