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About Dominique Kalifa
- Dominique Kalifa is a French historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he is director of the Centre of 19th Century History and member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
- A student of Michelle Perrot, he specialises in the history of crime, transgression, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th France and Europe.
- He also taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) from 2008 to 2015, and was several times "Invited professor" at NYU and "Visiting Scholar" at the University of Saint Andrews.
- From 1990, he is also columnist (historical reviews) for the French newspaper Libération.
- His study about the underworld and its role in the Western imagination is now translated into portuguese (EDUSP), Spanish (Mora) and forthcoming in English (Columbia University Press).
- His Véritable Histoire de la Belle Epoque, published in 2017, won the Eugene Colas Prize from the Académie Française.
- He is currently working on a new project about love, Paris and the topographical imagination.
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