Docteure en civilisation américaine et agrégée d’anglais, Yohanna Alimi-Levy est maîtresse de conférences à l’université Reichman en Israël. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire politique et sociale de la Jeune République américaine, et plus particulièrement sur la période jacksonienne. Elle s’intéresse aux échanges intellectuels entre les États-Unis et la France et à l’histoire diplomatique entre les deux pays.

Catherine Audard est professeure de philosophie morale et politique et auteure française, née en 1944. Elle enseigne la philosophie à la London School of Economics depuis 1991. Traductrice de certains ouvrages de John Rawls et de John Stuart Mill, elle a également publié une Anthologie historique et critique de l'utilitarisme en trois tomes (1999) le livre Qu'est-ce que le libéralisme ? (2009) ainsi que La démocratie et la raison (2019). Catherine Audard est chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

Nicolas Barreyre est directeur d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Sa recherche porte sur les questions d'économie politique, et la manière dont elles façonnent et à leur tour sont construites par l'Etat, aux États-Unis sur un long XIXe siècle. Son premier ouvrage, L'or et la liberté (Éd. EHESS, 2014), traduit en anglais par Arthur Goldhammer (Gold and Freedom, UVAPress, 2015) examine comment les questions monétaires ont eu un lourd impact sur la politique de Reconstruction du Sud après la guerre de Sécession. Son prochain ouvrage, The Power of Debt (Chicago, 2027) examine comme la dette de guerre sert d'instrument à l'État américain pour transformer le pays en superpuissance économique. Son intérêt pour l'État inclut une dimension comparatiste, notamment avec la France, comme explicité dans son article co-écrit avec Claire Lemercier, "The Unexceptional State" (AHR, 2021). Nicolas Barreyre est également co-directeur de la version en anglais des Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales.

David A. Bell, the President of the Tocqueville Society, holds the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus chair in the Department of History at Princeton University. A historian of early modern France and the revolutionary Atlantic, He is the author of seven books, including most recently Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020). 

Richard Bell received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA from the University of Cambridge. His research interests focus on American history between 1750 and 1877. Bell’s most recent book is The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. Published by Penguin/Riverhead in 2025, it received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. It reveals the full breadth and depth of America’s founding event. The American Revolution was not only the colonies’ triumphant liberation from the rule of an overbearing England; it was also a cataclysm that pulled in participants from around the globe and threw the entire world order into chaos. Repositioning the Revolution at the center of an international web, this  narrative ranges as far afield as India, Africa, Central America, and Australia. As Bell's lens widens, the “War of Independence” manifests itself as a sprawling struggle that upended the lives of millions of people on every continent and fundamentally transformed the way the world works, disrupting trade, restructuring penal systems, stirring famine, and creating the first global refugee crisis. Bell conveys the impact of these developments at home and abroad by grounding the narrative in the gripping stories of individuals—including women, minorities, and other disenfranchised people. The result is an unforgettable and unexpected work of American history that shifts everything we thought we knew about our creation story.

Born in France, raised in Pittsburgh and Paris and having studied and settled in the UK, Ludivine Broch is a historian who specialises in society and culture in Second World War France. She is interested in peoples' lives during this period, their thoughts, feelings and the objects which surrounded them. She was awarded a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2010 for her doctoral thesis, funded by the AHRC, on the role of French railway workers during the German Occupation of France (1940-44). She then taught at Birkbeck and the University of Bristol, and was awarded an Early Career Research Fellowship at the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck and a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. In September 2014, she joined the University of Westminster where she teaches on a range of topics relating to 19th and 20th century European but also global history.

Flora Champy joined the Department of French and Italian as an Assistant Professor of French in September 2018. She was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2024. She holds a dual PhD in French Literature from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Rutgers University. An alumna of the ENS de Paris, she received a master’s degree in Classics from Paris IV Sorbonne University. She previously taught at the ENS de Lyon and Johns Hopkins University. She published in 2022 L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Entre exemples et modèles (Paris : Classiques Garnier)

Herrick Chapman is a modern European historian working mainly on the social, economic, and political history of twentieth-century France. Much of his work focuses on the uses of state authority in French society, and from that optic he has written on labor relations and business enterprise, gender and the welfare state, shopkeepers and anti-tax rebellions, and racism and discrimination. His most recent book, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic (Harvard, 2018), appearing in a French edition as La longue reconstruction de la France: A la recherche de la république moderne (trans. Odile Demange, SciencesPo, 2021), explores how the French rebuilt their economy and their polity after the Second World War. He is currently exploring the impact of deindustrialization on France and elsewhere.

Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. From 2011-18 she was the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, which recently won the 2020 Bancroft Prize in American History, previous books include Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, also winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer, and A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. She is also co-author with David Kennedy and Margaret O’Mara of a widely used college and advanced placement United States history textbook, The American Pageant. Her writings have appeared as well in many edited volumes, academic journals, and popular venues, including The Atlantic, New York Times, the Washington Post, and the American Prospect. 

Michel Forsé, né le 14 mars 1954 à Paris, est un sociologue français, directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS. De 1981 à 1987, Michel Forsé est chargé d’études à l’Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques (OFCE, Sciences Po). En 1987, il devient Maître de Conférences à l’Université de Lyon II. Puis, en 1991, il est élu Professeur de sociologie à l’Université de Lille 1. De 1993 à 1997, il est membre de l’Institut universitaire de France. En 1997, il devient Directeur de Recherche au CNRS et à ce titre membre du Centre Maurice-Halbwachs (CNRS, EHESS, ENS, INRAE). Il y a dirigé le GRECO (Groupe de REcherche sur la COhésion et la justice sociale) et a été le responsable scientifique du service de données ADISP ( Archives de Données Issues de la Statistique Publique ). Il a également fondé et dirigé le Master « Sociologie et Statistique » (EHESS, ENS, ENSAE). Rédacteur en chef de The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville, Michel Forsé a également été membre du comité de rédaction de L’Année Sociologique et des conseils scientifiques des Archives Européennes de Sociologie / European Journal of Sociology et de Sociologia e Politiche Sociali.

François Furstenberg is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, where his research and teaching focus on the history of North America and the Atlantic World, with particular interests in social, political, and intellectual history, historiography, geography, and the transnational dynamics of state formation. Born in the United States, he grew up in a bilingual family; he previously taught US history at the Université de Montréal.

Arthur Ghins is a historian of political thought and political theorist. He works on 18-20th c. debates about democracy, public opinion, and liberalism, and how they shed light on current discussions about politics. His first monograph, The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press ("Ideas in Context").

Arthur Goldhammer has translated more than 125 books from the French, including Tocqueville's Democracy in America and The Ancien Régime and the Revolution. He is a past president of the Tocqueville Society and a senior affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Gili Kliger is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Stanford and a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on the history of European empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her Ph.D. in History from Harvard in May of 2022 and was previously a College Fellow at Harvard. She is also a recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), the Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in the English Language, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowship, and the Barrington Moore Prize for Excellence in Advising for my work teaching and advising undergraduates. 

James T. Kloppenberg is Charles Warren Research Professor of American History at Harvard, where he taught courses on US and European politics and ideas and chaired the History Department, the graduate program in the History of American Civilization, and the undergraduate program in Social Studies. He served on the editorial board of La revue Toqueville/The Tocqueville Review and published several articles in that journal on French and American thought. His books include Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (awarded the 1987 OAH Curti Prize) and Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (awarded the 2017 AHA Mosse Prize). He is completing work on a history of social democracy in the US and Europe, co-written with E. J. Dionne of the New York Times, to be published by Princeton University Press.

«Grand observateur des mutations de notre société, Simon Langlois est reconnu pour sa perspective large sur le Québec. Ses travaux, internationalement appréciés, sont devenus des incontournables. Après un doctorat à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, il entre au Département de sociologie de l’Université Laval en 1979 où il est resté jusqu’en 2015. Son enseignement et sa recherche ont porté entre autres sur l’analyse de la transformation contemporaine du Québec, ses défis, son économie. Au cours de ses fructueuses années au Département, il a été membre du comité de rédaction de prestigieuses revues et à la tête de Recherches sociographiques pendant cinq ans. Sa carrière de chercheur a été prolifique: 160 articles scientifiques, une dizaine d’articles de dictionnaires et d’encyclopédies, 19 livres, 12 numéros spéciaux de revues et plus de 80 conférences à travers le monde. Titulaire pendant 4 ans de la Chaire pour le développement de la recherche sur la culture d'expression française en Amérique du Nord (CEFAN), sa réputation a transcendé les frontières du Québec. L’Institut de France l’a fait membre de l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques, et il a été fait chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes académiques. Le Québec a reconnu son apport à la vie intellectuelle en lui décernant, en 2003, la médaille de l’Assemblée nationale. À l’échelle canadienne, il a été admis à l’Académie des sciences sociales et à la Société royale du Canada, dont il a été président de 2012 à 2014. Le Gouverneur général du Canada l’a honoré du Prix international en études canadiennes. Par son rayonnement international, Simon Langlois a sa place au sein des meilleurs représentants de la Faculté des sciences sociales et de l’Université Laval.

Adam Lebovitz is a historian of political thought, specializing in the constitutional ideas of the late eighteenth century in America, Britain, and France. He holds a doctorate and a law degree from Harvard. Prior to coming to the Hamilton School he held fellowships at a number of leading institutions, including University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, New York University Law School, and the Harvard Law School. His research has been published, or is forthcoming, in venues such as the William and Mary Quarterly, the American Journal of Legal History, and the Cambridge History of Rights. His forthcoming first monograph, Colossus: Constitutional Theory in America and France, 1776-1799, documents the surprising extent to which American constitutional ideas and designs influenced the course of the French revolution. He has won numerous prizes, including the Leo Strauss Prize from the American Political Science Association, the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize from Harvard University, and the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Award.

Antoine Lilti est né en 1972. Ancien élève de l’École normale supérieure, agrégé d’histoire, il soutient en 2003 à l’université Panthéon-Sorbonne, sous la direction de Daniel Roche, une thèse intitulée : « Le Monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle », publiée en 2005. Il enseigne comme maître de conférences à l’ENS Ulm, puis comme directeur d’études à l’EHESS à partir de 2011. Il rejoint le Collège de France en 2022. En parallèle, il exerce une activité éditoriale. De 2006 à 2011, il dirige la rédaction de la revue Annales. Histoire, sciences sociales. De 2013 à 2023, est directeur de la collection « L’épreuve de l’histoire », aux éditions Fayard. Il dirige actuellement « L’histoire au présent », aux éditions Flammarion. Ses travaux portent sur l’histoire sociale, culturelle et intellectuelle des Lumières. Il a d’abord étudié les pratiques de sociabilité des élites aristocratiques et des écrivains (Le Monde des salons, Fayard, 2005), puis s’est attaché à montrer l’émergence, au XVIIIe siècle, d’une forme nouvelle de reconnaissance, la célébrité, liée aux mutations de l’espace public et des identités individuelles (Figures publiques, Fayard, 2014). Depuis, son travail s’est élargi aux héritages multiples des Lumières (L’Héritage des Lumières. Ambivalences de la modernité, EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, 2019 et Actualité des Lumières : une histoire plurielle, Collège de France, 2023). Un autre pan de ses recherches a porté, ces dernières années, sur les premiers contacts entre Européens et Polynésiens dans le Pacifique et sur les voyageurs tahitiens venus en Europe au XVIIIe siècle (L’Illusion d’un monde commun. Tahiti et la découverte de l’Europe, Flammarion, 2025).

Sarah Maza (Ph.D., Princeton, 1978), Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences, specializes in the history of France from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with a focus on social, cultural and intellectual history. Most of her work concerns “the social imaginary,” the ways in which people in the past have understood, experienced and represented social identities, particularly class identities. She has published Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty (Princeton University Press, 1983), Private Lives and Public Affairs: the Causes Célèbres of Pre-Revolutionary France (University of California Press, 1993), which won the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 (Harvard University Press, 2003) winner of the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association, and Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (University of California Press, 2011) singled out as an “editor’s choice” by the New York Times Book Review.  She also works on issues of theory and methodology, has published articles on cultural history, history and literature, and interdisciplinarity, and coedited the Blackwell Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002). Her most recent book, an introduction to the discipline entitled Thinking About History, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017.  Maza’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Professor emeritus of Sorbonne University and Doctor of Letters, Françoise Melonio is a specialist of Tocqueville. She has taught in secondary schools, and has been a professor at Nanterre, at the Sorbonne, and at Sciences Po. She was deputy director of the ENS (Ulm) and director of studies and schooling at Sciences Po.

Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She is Director of the EU Program at Princeton, former Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (2022-2024), and former Acting Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (2023-2024). She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book award. She is also co-editor of several books on Europe and globalization, most recently Developments in French Politics 6 (Palgrave MacMillan 2020) and Speaking with a Single Voice: The EU as an Effective Actor in Global Governance? (Routledge, 2015). Meunier is the former Chair of the European Union Studies Association (2023-2024). Her current work deals with the politics of investment screening mechanisms and the European Union's recent geoeconomic turn, including as part of the PRISM project and the Beauty Contests grant. She was made Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Government.

Gilles Montègre is maître de conférences HDR at the University of Grenoble Alpes. A specialist in the 18th century, his research and teaching focus on the history of travel, knowledge, emotions, and diplomacy. His book Voyager en Europe au temps des Lumières. Les émotions de la liberté (Paris, Tallandier) won the Château-de-Versailles History Book Prize in 2024. Contrary to the dominant historiography on the Grand Tour, this study highlights a “journey of the Enlightenment,” characterized by a sensitive reason that leads to a rethinking of the connection between the experience of travel and the age of Revolutions. Since 2024, he has been one of the co-pilots of the @rchibeau program dedicated to the study and digital publication of the Beaumarchais archives (ANR 2024-2029). Currently working on the origins and evolution of the Franco-American alliance, based on the Beaumarchais archives as well as Vergennes' personal archives found at the Château de Crolles, he is the organizer of the symposium to be held from October 1 to 4, 2026, at the Musée de la Révolution française in Vizille: “From America to France. Beaumarchais and the Experience of Revolution.”

Bill Novak is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. His books include The People's Welfare:  Law and Regulation in 19th Century America (1996) and New Democracy:  The Creation of the Modern American State (2022) both of which won the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize for best book on the history of American law and society . He is currently at work on a new legal history of the American founding from the perspective of law, regulation, administration, and statecraft.

Teddy Paikin is a PhD candidate at McGill University under the supervision of Professors William Clare Roberts and Noam Maggor. He has a BA in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and an MA in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research. His research focuses on the history of French political economy and French capitalism in the nineteenth century. More specifically, his dissertation engages with the Saint-Simonian theory of the developmental state and its relationship to the economics of French imperialism. Given his academic background, his methodology and theoretical approach are multidisciplinary, standing at the intersection of intellectual history, political economy, political theory and historical sociology. His research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal est Directeur de recherches au CNRS (au sein du labo ECHELLES) et Professeur d'histoire, de français et d'italien, et de droit à l'Université de Californie du Sud.  Il est auteur de trois livres sur l'ère des révolutions dans une perspective atlantique et transimpériale - Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution (Belknap/Harvard, 2015), The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It (Basic Books, 2024, à paraître en français en 2026), et The Long Revolution: Creating a United States after 1776 (Basic Books, juin 2026) - ainsi qu'un grand nombre d’articles dans des revues scientifiques et des textes destinés au grand public.

Dr. Iris de Rode is a historian of the French role in the American Revolution. In the family château of Major General François-Jean de Chastellux in Burgundy, she uncovered his unpublished papers. Chastellux, a French officer in Rochambeau’s army and close friend of George Washington, became the focus of her PhD (2019) and her book (2022), which received the Prix Guizot of the Académie Française in 2023. She has held more than twenty research fellowships, appears in Ken Burns’s PBS series The American Revolution, advises major museums and digital-heritage projects on both sides of the Atlantic, and is now completing a book on the French in the American Revolution.

Stephen W. Sawyer is the Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History, director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at The American University of Paris (AUP) and  Director of Publications of the Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville. He has published two volumes on the history of the modern demos in France from an international perspective: Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880 (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power, 1800-1850 (University of Chicago Press, 2025) and is currently preparing the final volume of the trilogy on the period 1770-1830, exploring the French revolution in democratic government.

Devin J. Vartija is assistant professor of history at Utrecht University and a former post-doctoral fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is an intellectual historian whose main body of work focuses on the complex interplay between race and equality in Enlightenment Europe. He received his Ph.D. (with distinction) in 2018 at Utrecht University. His first book, The Colour of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought, systematically interrogates the strands of equality and inequality, common humanity and racial classification that run through the Enlightenment and has been published (2021) by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on two projects. One is a book-length examination of how debates concerning inclusion and exclusion, equality and inequality became central to Enlightenment historiography over the past fifty years. And he's developing a new project at the crossroads of intellectual history and the history of emotions that examines the emotional valence of equal and unequal treatment between the late Enlightenment and early French Revolution. It is an attempt to write a mode of intellectual history that privileges lived experience and affect.

Laurent Warlouzet is Professor of History at Sorbonne University in Paris. A specialist in the history of European integration and globalization, he is the author of many works on these subjects including (with B. Leucht and K. Seidel) Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2023), Europe contre Europe: Entre liberté, solidarité et puissance (CNRS Éditions, 2022), and Governing Europe in a Globalizing World: Neoliberalism and its Alternatives following the 1973 Oil Crisis (Routledge, 2018).

Patrick Weil is an emeritus research professor of history at the University of Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. From 2008 to 2024, he has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School. In the fall of 2025, he was a fellow at the University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression.  Among his most recent books are The Madman in the White House. Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Harvard University Press, 2023), De la laicité en France (Grasset, 2021, Folio/Gallimard 2022), and De l’Immigration en France (Grasset, 2026). Patrick Weil is also, since 2006, the founder and the chairman of the international NGO Libraries Without Borders (Bibliothèques Sans Frontières). 

Olivier Zunz is the James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of The Changing Face of Inequality, 1982 (Naissance de l’Amérique industrielle, 1983), Making America Corporate, 1990 (L’Amérique en col blanc, 1991), Why the American Century?, 1998 (Le Siècle américain, 2000), Philanthropy in America: A History, 2012 (La philanthropie en Amérique : argent privé, affaires d’état (2012), and The Man Who Understood Democracy.  The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, 2022 (Tocqueville. L’homme qui comprit la démocratie, 2022 ; winner of the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique Le Touquet Paris Plage, 2022, and the Prix Littéraire de Biographie Historique Brantôme 2023).  His work on Alexis de Tocqueville includes editing The Tocqueville Reader, 2002, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 2004, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America, 2010, and Tocqueville’s Recollections (1850-1851), 2016.  He is also the editor of Reliving the Past, 1985, The Landscape of Modernity, 1992, and Social Contracts under Stress, 2002.  

Olivier Zunz has been a Guggenheim fellow and a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Collège de France, among other appointments abroad.  He lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia.