Nicolas Lebourg


Nicolas Lebourg is a French historian and a specialist of far-right movements in Europe.

Biography

Born in 1974, Lebourg studied sociology at Aix-Marseille University and history at the University of Perpignan, from which he graduated with a PhD in contemporary history in 2005, after a thesis on French national revolutionaries during the period 1940–2002.
Between 2015 and 2017, he was a research fellow in the program "History of fascism in Europe and Eurasia" at George Washington University, under the supervision of French historian Marlène Laruelle. In 2017–2018, he was a project researcher in the study group "The Far Right in Europe and Russia’s Role and Influence" for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Lebourg also comments on the current political events in various newspapers such as Slate, Mediapart and Libération.

Works