Dr Elodie Duché

In September 2015, I joined York St John University as a lecturer in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history. Prior to this, I was Alan Pearsall Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) for 2014-2015, in conjunction with the History Department at Warwick. I have held various fellowships supporting my research including: an Association of Commonwealth Universities Early Career Research Grant (Summer 2016), a Junior Caird Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (Summer 2015) and a Warwick Transatlantic Fellowship for a research project in Canada (April 2014). My current study of British prisoners of war in Napoleonic France and Mauritius is building on my doctoral thesis, which I completed in the History Department at Warwick in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Carolyn Steedman. My thesis explored parole detention as a site of transnational exchange through a case study of verdun: a central depot for British civilian and military prisoners of war in Napoleonic France. I am the co-founder of the Prisoner of War Studies Network with Dr Grace Huxford (University of Bristol).