A Gendered Social History of Health Inequality in Europe, 1870s-1990s.
Clarisse Berthezène joined University Paris Cité (then Paris Diderot University) as professor of British history in 2018. She was elected a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) in 2024. She served as vice president and interim president of University Paris Cité from 2019 to 2023.
Berthezène’s initial work focuses on the social and cultural politics of the British Conservative Party (2011, 2015). Building on collaborative research seminars, she then examined conservatism as a political movement from a transnational perspective (2016, 2017). A gendered approach to Liberalism and Conservatism was key to her interest in right-wing women’s political mobilizations (2017, 2020). Elaborating on different research grants (COST ‘Who cares in Europe?'), her current work examines the relationships among voluntary associations, states and political parties in the creation of social welfare in Europe.
During her time at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Berthezène will work on a project on health inequality among women in Europe. Examining data from 1870 to the present, her analysis will focus on historical dynamics that contribute to large discrepancies in mortality rates and life expectancy for women.
Berthezène received a master’s degree in history at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She holds an MPhil in history from Sciences Po and received the award for the best thesis of the year from Sorbonne Nouvelle University upon completing her Ph.D.
This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.
A Gendered Social History of Health Inequality in Europe, 1870s-1990s.
Berthezène, Clarisse and Julie V. Gottlieb. Rethinking right-wing women. Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the Present. MUP, 2017.
Berthezène, Clarisse, and Jean-Christian Vinel. Conservatismes en mouvement: une approche transnationale au XXe siècle, Editions de l’EHESS, 2016.
Berthezène, Clarisse. Training Minds for the War of Ideas Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the Cultural Politics of Britain, 1929-54. Manchester University Press, 2015, 2019.
