Laura Downs

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First Name

Laura

Last Name

Downs

Country

Italy

MC member or Substitute?

MC member

Working groups

Working Group 1 - Families and Social Welfare, Working Group 2 - The Mixed Economy of Welfare

Research interests relevant in the context of this COST action

Gender and social politics in Europe, working class childhood, social politics in European borderlands

Discipline

History

Current academic (or professional) position

Chair, History of Gender and Sexuality, Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute

Link to your LinkedIn, personal website, etc.

https://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/People/Professors/Downs

Up to 3 most important publications

Writing Gender History, 3rd ed, expanded (forthcoming London 2019); 2010 (2nd ed); 2004 (1st ed)
“Au revoir les enfants: Wartime evacuation and the politics of childhood in France and Britain, 1939-1945,” History Workshop Journal 81/2 (2016), 1-39
'La piu’ serena italianizzazione?' Social action and nationalist politics in the North-eastern Adriatic borderlands (1919-1954), Acta Histriae 26/4 (December 2018), 1087-1102

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