Research
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Research interests
- History and culture of Jews in Belarus from 1772 to 1939, including Belarusian-Jewish relations
- Jewish art in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Belarus and Ukraine
- Nationalities policy in the Russian/Soviet western borderlands
- Cultural transfers and knowledge exchanges between different national groups in Belarus and more broadly the multiethnic western margins of Russia/Soviet Union.
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Biography
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.