Catherine Brice

Catherine Brice is Professor of Contemporary History at Paris-Est Créteil University, France, a member of the Centre de Recherche en histoire européenne comparée (CRHEC), and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Italy, particularly on the cultural history of politics, and she has studied the place of public monumentality in the Italian space, and more specifically the monument to Victor Emmanuel II of Rome. She has also devoted work to the place of the monarchy in the construction of an Italian national identity, resulting in the book La monarchie et la construction de l'identité nationale italienne (1861-1900) (2010). She is a contributor to the publications Exil et fraternité au XIXème siècle (2013) and La fraternité en action: frères de sang, frères d'armes, frères ennemis en Italie (1824-1924) (2017), and authored the paper "Mobilities, Know-how and Innovation in the Nineteenth Century" in Revue d'histoire du 19ème siècle (2016).