Lauren Pankin is a third-year doctoral candidate at the University of Paris Cité. Her thesis, ‘The Salt of the Earth’: regards photographiques croisés sur la ferme lors de la seconde révolution industrielle (France, Grande-Bretagne et Etats-Unis) is co-directed by Quentin Deluermoz et Daniel Foliard.
Research interests:
EDUCATION
Université Paris Cité, Paris 13e, France Ph.D. Candidate in English Studies (LARCA) and in Contemporary History (ICT-Identités, Cultures, Territoires), October 2022 – present Funded over three years
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Master 1 and Master 2 in Political History of Contemporary Worlds, October 2020 – June 2022 Mention Très Bien (Highest Honors)
Scholarship from ENS Paris-Saclay (2020-2022) and the Fulbright Association (2020-2021) University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States B.A. Global Studies and B.A. French Studies, October 2016 – June 2020 GPA : 3.91 / 4.00 ; Summa cum laude David Adler Scholarship (2016-2020)
RESEARCH AND PRESENTATIONS
Thesis (Doctoral): ‘The Salt of the Earth': regards photographiques croisés sur la ferme lors de la seconde révolution industrielle (France, Grande-Bretagne et Etats-Unis) (ongoing)
Presentation (paper accepted): « Flash(back) : La Vieille France qui s’en va » for the conference Aveugler, pour voir : Flashs et révélations, Photographica / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, October 2024
Presentation (paper accepted): “The Digital Traffic in Photographs,” for the doctoral workshop Through the Archival Lens. Spotting Contemporary Shadow Archives in Global Contexts, University of Bern, September 2024
Presentation: “Globalizing the Country Life Movement Through Magazine Photography, 1897-1914” for the doctoral workshop Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History, Aarhus University, Denmark, June 2024
Presentation: “Entre lit clos et huis clos : la photographie ethnographique et la reconstitution matérielle des foyers bretons” for the doctoral seminar The Museum and Photography, L’Ecole du Louvre and the Dominique-Vivant Denon Center, May 2024
Presentation: “The Photographer and the Bard: The Construction of the Breton Home(land) and the Partnership of Emile Hamonic and Theodore Botrel, 1898-1914” for the conference Love and Lenses: Photographic Couples, Gender Relationships, and Transatlantic Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century, Oxford University, October 2023
Presentation: “Excursions in Time: Amateur Photography Rhythms in Rural Spaces, England and France, 1880 – 1914”, for the Université Paris Cité Doctoral School 131 Seminar Rythme(s), April 2023
Thesis (Master): “Rooted by the Vine: The Creation of Settler Identities in Colonial Algeria, 1870 - 1939,” defended June 2022
