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Pernille Røge is College Lecturer in History; Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; and Associate Director of Studies, Centre for History and Economics. Born and raised in Denmark, she moved to France in 2001 and graduated from the American University of Paris with a BA in History and Social Sciences in 2004. She was a graduate of Queens’ College, Cambridge. She completed an MPhil in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and recently submitted her PhD, supervised by Richard Drayton. Research Pernille’s research interests encompass eighteenth and nineteenth-century European and extra-European history, concentrating on French intellectual and colonial history In her M.Phil thesis she explored the connections between French abolitionism and the colonisation of Africa, in the period 1770-1848. Inspired by Foucault’s theory of domination, which places ‘historico-political’ discourses at its centre, the thesis tried to tease out the increasingly racialist perceptions of African populations, evolving in the face of a progressively more ‘enlightened’ France. In general, the thesis aimed to understand the impact of a racialist discourse on abolitionist societies in France and how it led abolitionists to justify and/or develop ideologies of imperialism. Pernille’s PhD research examines the transformation of French Imperialism in the eighteenth century, more specifically the three decades after the Seven Years War. During this period, the French Colonial Administration attempted to compensate for the loss of its North American, Canadian, and Indian possessions by supporting colonial experimentation and innovation overseas alongside its continued implementation of traditional policies. Stimulated by the parallel rise of French political economy and free-trade theories, this moment of overlapping colonial approaches constitute a fertile context within which to explore the origins of Modern French Imperialism.
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