MASSAT Arnaud
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Researcher in contemporary history affiliated to the Ministry of the Armed Forces, specialising in the infrastructures of the French Navy overseas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Functions
Since 2020Doctoral student in contemporary history under the joint supervision of Walter Bruyère-Ostells (Sciences Po Aix) and Thomas Vaisset (Université Le Havre Normandie), attached to ED 355. Recipient of a history thesis grant from the Ministry of the Armed Forces in 2021. Attached to the "Defence and Internal Security" doctoral programme at Aix-Marseille University.
2022-2025Research and teaching officer at the Service historique de la Défense. Lecturer at the École navale.
2021-2022: Part-time lecturer at Sciences Po Aix and the Air Force Academy
Areas of research
International relations
Contemporary history
Military history
Maritime history
Colonial history
Productions
Thesis in progress Les bases de la Marine nationale en outre-mer 1860-1978" under the co-direction of Walter Bruyère-Ostells (Sciences Po Aix) and Thomas Vaisset (Université Le Havre Normandie)
Book chapters in Hervé Drévillon and Walter Bruyère-Ostells (eds), Anthology of French military thoughtParis: Nouveau Monde Éditions, 2025, pp. 423-437, 898-906, and 961-978.
Book reviewLe Parlement et la Marine en France, 1871-1914. A political history of the navy", Revue Historique des ArméesService Historique de la Défense, 2024/4 (No. 315), p. 138-139.
ArticleLe lieutenant de vaisseau Georges Hébert et l'hébertisme". Revue Historique des Armées, 2024/3 No. 314, 2024. p.39-46