MIOT Claire
Contact details
Lecturer, specialist in the history of contemporary military and warfare
Functions
Lecturer in contemporary history, Sciences Po Aix/Mesopolhis
Co-responsible for the Masters in Geostrategy, Defence and International Security
Head of Student Mobility for German-speaking countries and Eastern Europe at Sciences Po Aix
Executive Committee member and treasurer of the Association of Contemporary Historians (H2C)
Member of the War Losses and Casualties network
Co-editor-in-chief of 20&21. A history journal
https://www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/revues/2021revuedhistoire/
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Major Sites of National Remembrance in the Île-de-France region
Member of the Scientific Council of the Free France Foundation
Academic work
Doctoral thesis under the supervision of Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris Saclay, 2016
Agrégation in History, 2009
Student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Paris Saclay), 2005
Areas of research
History of warfare in the modern era: combat experiences, military identities, sexual and gender-based violence in times of war, and the handling of military casualties
History of imperial and colonial power: Empires in world conflicts, colonised soldiers, articulation of military and colonial hierarchies, circulation and transfer of practices of war violence between European and imperial spaces.
History of politics: resistance and military collaboration, political-military relations, the Liberation and the restoration of the State.
Doctoral supervision
Co-direction (with Nicolas Badalassi) of Pierre-Olivier Eglemme's thesis entitled "Les forces françaises à Berlin, de forces d'occupation à outil diplomatique au temps de la Guerre froide. 1945-1955".
Productions
Monographs and collective works
- The Provence landingsParis, Passés Composés, 2024
- History of the First French ArmyParis, Perrin, 2021
- with Vaisset Thomas and Vo-Ha Paul (dir), Ceasefire, ceasefire? From modern times to the present dayVilleneuve d'Asq, Septentrion, 2021
- with Piketty Guillaume and Vaisset Thomas (dir), Military resistance in France and EuropeVilleneuve d'Asq, Septentrion, 2020
Recent articles
- With Thomas Vaisset, «Rediscovering 40 Historiographical Uses of The Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch», 20 & 21. History Journal, 2026, No. 169(1), pp. 63–77.
- "Crossing the Mediterranean, back to the mother country? The Free French in the Provence landings 1943-1944", Les Cahiers de la MéditerranéeNo. 109, December 2024, pp. 111-125.
- "New war, old models? Military leaders and the use of colonised soldiers in the French Army from the end of the Second World War to the Indochina War (1944-1954)", Revue historique des Armées2024/1, no. 312, pp. 69-82.
Encyclopaedia entries
- "Colonised soldiers on the European fronts in the two world wars", Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique de l'Europe [online], ISSN 2677-6588, online since 05/09/23. Permalink : https://ehne.fr/fr/node/22129
- "Libérer, être libéré dans l'Europe des xixe et xxe siècles [Liberating and being liberated in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe], Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique de l'Europe [online], ISSN 2677-6588, online since 22/06/20. Permalink : https://ehne.fr/fr/node/12383
Research leadership
- Since June 2026: Co-editor-in-chief (with Antonin Durand) of the journal 20&21. History Journal
- Member of the editorial committee of the magazine Bellica. War, history and society https://revue-bellica.uqam.ca/
- Co-organiser of the "De plus Grandes Guerres" seminar, with Damien Accoulon (Université de Tours), Camille Mahé (Sciences Po Strasbourg), Gwendal Piégais (Trinity College), Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris) and Thomas Vaisset (Université Le Havre Normandie). https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/recherche/seminaires/seminaire-des-axes-et-des-domaines/de-plus-grandes-guerres/
- Member of the jury for the H2C prize for best article https://www.asso-h2c.fr/2025/02/19/prix-jeune-chercheur-se-dh2c-2025/
- Member of the jury for the Duroselle Prize https://relations-internationales.fr/prix-duroselle/presentation/
List of publications on HAL
Article in a magazine
Claire Miot, Thomas Vaisset. Retrouver 40. Historians’ Uses of Marc Bloch’s *L’Étrange Défaite*. 20 & 21. *Revue d’histoire*, 2026, No. 169 (1), pp. 63–77. ⟨10.3917/vin.169.0063⟩. ⟨hal-05649282⟩
Claire Miot. New war, old models? Military leaders and the use of colonised soldiers in the French Army from the end of the Second World War to the Indochina War (1944-1954). Revue Historique des Armées, 2024, No. 312 (1), pp.69-82. ⟨10.3917/rha.312.0069⟩. ⟨hal-04618791⟩
Claire Miot. De l'armée de la Libération au bras armé de la répression? Revue Historique des Armées, 2022, N° 306 (3), pp.87-96. ⟨10.3917/rha.306.0087⟩. ⟨hal-04618849⟩
Claire Miot. R émi D alisson , Les Soldats de 1940. Une génération sacrifiée , Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2020, 275 p., ISBN 978-2-271-12610-8. Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 2022, n° 69-2 (2), pp.174-176. ⟨10.3917/rhmc.692.0175⟩. ⟨hal-04620312⟩
Claire Miot. "A police force for souls"? Revue Historique des Armées, 2017, n° 289 (4), pp.40-54. ⟨10.3917/rha.289.0040⟩. ⟨hal-04618859⟩
Claire Miot. Corps combattant. La production du soldat , Jeanne Teboul, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2017, 264 p.. Revue Historique des Armées, 2017, n° 289 (4), pp.135a-136. ⟨10.3917/rha.289.0135a⟩. ⟨hal-04618861⟩
Claire Miot. The withdrawal of Senegalese riflemen from the First French Army in 1944. Vingtième siècle. Revue d'histoire, 2014, N° 125 (1), pp.77-89. ⟨10.3917/ving.125.0077⟩. ⟨hal-04620301⟩
Presentation at a conference
Thomas Vaisset, Claire Miot. After July 1940. The Mers el-Kébir naval cemetery and its legacy. Reflecting on naval losses: medical adaptations, legal standards and diplomatic issues, political and commemorative implications (18th–21st centuries), April 2026, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-05649285⟩
Book chapter
Thomas Vaisset, Claire Miot, Paul Vo-Ha. Introduction. For a transactional approach to war: thinking about armed conflicts through the prism of exiting combat. Claire Miot; Thomas Vaisset; Paul Vo-Ha. Cessez-le-feu, cesser les combats? De l'époque moderne à nos jours, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, pp.9-32, 2022, 978-2-7574-3719-3. ⟨hal-03788777⟩
Thomas Vaisset, Claire Miot, Paul Vo-Ha, Bernard Gainot. Conclusion. War as a relationship: violence, negotiation, exchange and compromise. Claire Miot; Thomas Vaisset; Paul Vo-Ha. Cessez-le-feu, cesser les combats? De l'époque moderne à nos jours, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, pp.263-280, 2022, 978-2-7574-3719-3. ⟨hal-03788784⟩
Thomas Vaisset, Claire Miot. The military, ordinary resistance fighters? Claire Miot; Guillaume Piketty; Thomas Vaisset. Militaires en résistances en France et en Europe, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, p. 9-29, 2020, War Studies, 978-2-7574-3219-8. ⟨hal-02982171⟩
Claire Miot. 14 - Le débarquement de Provence, une opération inutile. Les mythes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Perrin, pp.241-255, 2018, ⟨10.3917/perri.lopez.2018.01.0241⟩. ⟨hal-04618844⟩
Publications
Thomas Vaisset, Claire Miot, Paul Vo-Ha (Dir.). Cease-fire, cease-fighting? From modern times to the present day. Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2022, 978-2-7574-3719-3. ⟨10.4000/books.septentrion.136803⟩. ⟨hal-03788773⟩
Claire Miot. La Première armée française, de la Provence à l'Allemagne (1944-1945). Perrin. 2021, 9782262071929. ⟨hal-04620320⟩
Claire Miot, Guillaume Piketty, Thomas Vaisset (Dir.). Military resistance in France and Europe. Claire Miot; Guillaume Piketty; Thomas Vaisset. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp.284, 2020, War Studies, 9782757432198. ⟨hal-03205669⟩