Jean-Baptiste Thomas
Fellow
- E-mail: jean-baptiste.thomas@polytechnique.edu
- Department: Research
Jean-Baptiste Thomas (1979) holds a PhD in Latin American Studies (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014) and is a lecturer in contemporary Latin American studies and history at the University of Poitiers (since 2015) and at École polytechnique–IP Paris (since 2018). He is a researcher at CRLA-Archivos-ITEM (Université de Poitiers–ENS–CNRS) and a and a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut des Amériques, a CNRS network that coordinates research on the Americas within more than 60 university institutions in France.
His research focuses on the social and political history of Cuba in the twentieth century, on the history of the Southern Cone in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of workers’ insubordination, as well as on the history of protest during the “Global 68.”
His articles are published both in academic journals and in media outlets open to social issues. He is the author of two monographs, Révolutions à Cuba de 1868 à nos jours (Paris, Syllepses, 2020, co-written with Thomas Posado) and Découvrir la Commune de Paris (Paris, Éditions sociales, 2021). He is currently working on the translation and critical edition of La Revolución palestina (1974) by the Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh (La Révolution palestinienne, Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2026), as well as on an anthology of texts by Ernesto Guevara (Découvrir Guevara, Paris, Éditions sociales, 2027).
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