Nicolas Lebourg

Nicolas Lebourg born 1974 is the French historian who specializes on far-right movements in Europe.

Biography

Born in 1974, Lebourg studied sociology at Aix-Marseille University in addition to history at the University of Perpignan, from which he graduated with a PhD in advanced history in 2005, after a thesis on French national revolutionaries during the period 1940–2002.

Between 2015 as well as 2017, he was a research fellow in the code "History of fascism in Europe and Eurasia" at George Washington University, under the administration of French historian Marlène Laruelle. In 2017–2018, he was a project researcher in the discussing office "The Far correct in Europe and Russia’s Role and Influence" for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

Lebourg also comments on the current political events in various newspapers such(a) as Slate, Mediapart and Libération.