Biography

Since 2026, Aurélie Dianara Andry is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) at NOVA University Lisbon, as part of the ERC project ‘STEXEU — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship: States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, 1900-39‘.

Before joining the IHC, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Experienced Researcher) at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Évry Paris-Saclay (France), where she carried out research on the history of the circulation of ideas and self-management practices in 20th-century Europe. Previously, she was a researcher and associate lecturer at the Sorbonne University and the University of Glasgow, where she worked on the history of socialism, trade unionism and European integration. In 2019, she completed her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on the failure of the social Europe project in the 1970s. She completed her master’s degree and bachelor’s degree at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris.

Her work has been published in journals such as European Review of History, Le mouvement social, Histoire Politique, Hispania and Revista Española de Historia, and by publishers including Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang and Éditions Amsterdam. She is the author of the monograph Social Europe: The Road Not Taken. The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s (Oxford University Press, 2022).

She taught European history and contemporary history at Monash University, the Sorbonne University and the University of Évry Paris-Saclay.

Research fields

• Social and political history of contemporary Europe
• Industrial democracy, self-management, neoliberalism and capitalism
• Transnational and global history, cultural transfers, the circulation of ideas
• States of emergency, states of exception, repression, authoritarianism, colonisation

Selected publications

• Andry, Aurélie. “La Confédération européenne des syndicats et la fabrique d’une politique sociale européenne (1957-années 1980),” Histoire Politique 55 (2025). [link]🔓
• Andry, Aurélie, Lucia Bonfreschi & Frank Georgi (Eds). Cultures politiques en mutation : Italie et France, 1968-milieu des années 1990 / Changing Political Cultures: Italy and France from 1968 to the mid-1990s. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2025. [link]
• Andry, Aurélie Dianara. Social Europe, the Road not Taken: The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. [link]
• Andry, Aurélie. “La lutte oubliée du mouvement syndical pour une réduction du temps de travail en Europe à l’heure du tournant néolibéral,” Le Mouvement Social 275 (2021). [link]

Main projects

• Researcher in the project ‘STEXEU — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship: States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, 1900-39‘ — Coordinated by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the European Research Institute (Starting Grant, Grant agreement ID: 101163723 ). 2026-2030 (link)
• Individual project ‘Self-Management, A French Model For Europe? 1945-1990s‘ — Hosted by Ruhr University Bochum and funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 2024-2025
• Member of the CAT network ‘Democracy at work: Historical perspectives and future challenges for employee representation in Europe‘ — Funded by the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Studies. 2024-2027
• Researcher in the project ‘EURO-DEM — Workplace democracy: a European ideal?: discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945‘ — Coordinated by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) and Roberto Frega (Marc Bloch Centre) and funded by ANR and DFG. 2021-2023 [link]
• Co-coordinator (with Haakon Ikonomou) of the project ‘First HEIRS-RICHIE Conference: Rethinking European Integration History in Times of Crisis’ — Hosted by the Réseau International des Jeunes Chercheurs en Histoire de l’Intégration Européenne and funded by the European Commission through the Jean Monnet Projects (564757-EPP-1-2015-1-FR-EPPJMO-PROJECT). 2015-2016 (link)