I am a graduate from Sciences Po, in Paris where I completed an undergraduate program and a double masters program. In 2015, I was awarded a jointly awarded PhD (The University of Queensland / Sciences Po), with the mention “Très honorable avec félicitations du jury”. Part of the PhD program was spent at Yale University.

I now live in Australia, where I hold the position of Senior Lecturer in History at The Australian National University in Canberra, and I remain an affiliated researcher at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, in Paris.

My work focuses on the transnational dimension of war and its aftermath, in both the Australian and European contexts. The First World War, war commemorations and Australian identity are my primary research interests. I also have an interest in the history of public health, the Red Cross movement and the treatment of human remains in conflicts.

I publish in French and in English, and I have taught at several universities including Sciences Po in France, Yale in the United States, the University of Queensland, Flinders University and The Australian National University in Australia.

My latest sole-authored monograph, Our Corner of the Somme, was published with Cambridge University Press. I am currently investigating the handling of human remains during and after the First World War while working on a monograph that explores the impact of the Cannes Medical Conference of 1919 and how it contributed to shift Red Cross work from wartime to peacetime, public health work.

For more information, please visit my website: https://romainfathi.com/ 

PhD, Sciences Po / The University of Queensland; Double Masters degree, Sciences Po

20th Century History, Australian History, French History and Politics, The First World War, Humanitarianism, The Red Cross movement, body disposal practices