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Stéphane Van Damme
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Stéphane Van Damme (born 1969) is historian and Professor of Early Modern History at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France.
Graduated from the university of Panthéon-Sorbonne and the EHESS, agrégé d’histoire, he received his PhD in 2000 under the supervision of Daniel Roche. After entering at the CNRS (Centre Alexandre Koyré) in 2001, he moved to Oxford at the Maison Française to take in charge the programme in history of science. In 2007, he was appointed by the University of Warwick as associate professor in Modern French History and director of its Eighteenth-Century studies center. In 2009, he moved to SciencesPo as associate professor in early modern history and history of science at the Centre d’histoire. He got his habilitation à diriger des recherches in 2010 at the EHESS under the guidance of Roger Chartier and became full professor at SciencesPo in 2011.
Since 2013, he has been Professor of the History of Science at the Department of History and European Civilization of the European University Institute based in Florence, Italy.
In September 2020, he joined the Département d'Histoire at the École normale supérieure in Paris as Professor of Early Modern History and is running the Master programme in Transnational History. In June 2022, he created with Blaise Wilfert the Centre Interdisciplinaire d'études européennes at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Van Damme's research examines the relations between early modern scientific knowledge and European culture between 1650 and 1850 by looking at scientific centres (Lyon, Paris, London, Edinburgh, New York), founding fathers of the Scientific Revolution (Descartes), paradigmatic disciplines (philosophy, natural history, antiquarianism, geography), and recently, imperial projects (North America, French Asia).
In 2014, he published a collection of essays on cultural history of philosophy, A toutes voiles vers la vérité, which explored the role played by the (natural) philosopher in Old Regime European societies.
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