Laurent Joly


Laurent Joly is a French historian and a specialist of Vichy France and antisemitism.

Life and career

Born in 1976, Joly earned a doctorate in history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, following a thesis on "Vichy and the Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs ". He joined the CNRS in 2006, and was a member of the "Research Center for Quantitative History" until January 2015.
Joly is now a Research Director at the CNRS. He earned the "prize of the Jewish research book" in 2007.

Works