Sean Kennedy is a historian of modern France and generally his research focuses upon political and intellectual developments during the 20th century. More specifically Dr. Kennedy has published on ultra-nationalist movements in France from the 1920s through the Second World War. He is currently studying the attitudes of French intellectuals towards the English-speaking nations during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the evolution of racism and antisemitism during the same period.
Media Experience: Dr. Kennedy welcomes media requests from TV, Radio and Print media outlets.
Research Interests: Contemporary France, Contemporary Europe, America and Europe, Fascism, Intellectual History.
| Institution: | University of New Brunswick |
| Fields of Expertise: | Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia European Identity/ EU Citizenship Historical Injustice and Trauma Nationalism and Extremism Political Extremism |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | skennedy@unb.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French |
| Publications: | Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007) Kennedy, Sean. (2018). Rebecca P. Scales. Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939.. The American Historical Review. 123. 1028-1029. 10.1093/ahr/123.3.1028. Kennedy, Sean. (2014). Charles L. Robertson, When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France. European History Quarterly. 44. 364-366. 10.1177/0265691414524528ai. Kennedy, Sean. (2013). Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History , by A. James Gregor Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History , by A. James Gregor. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2012. xvii, 300 pp. $65.00 US (cloth).. Canadian Journal of History. 48. 575-577. 10.3138/cjh.48.3.575 “Maurois, André”, in Bill Marshall (assisted by Cristine Johnson), ed., France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005), Vol. 2, 786. “Siegfried, André”, in Bill Marshall (assisted by Cristine Johnson), ed., France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005), Vol.3, 1067-1068. |
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