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Email: c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk
Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)
Claire Le Foll received her BA and MA degrees in History from Paris-Sorbonne (Paris I) and her PhD at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (Paris). She was a post-doctoral research at the university of Portsmouth (2006-2007, funded by a Hanadiv Foundation post-doctoral fellowship) and at the Franco-Russian Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences in Moscow (2007-2008) funded by a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (bourse Lavoisier). She has joined the history department and Parkes Institute at University of Southampton in October 2009.
Over the years,she has gained proficiency in Russian, Yiddish and Belorussian, and basic knowledge of Polish, Hebrew and German. She has worked extensively with archives in Eastern Europe, Israel and the US.