PUBLICATIONS (selection)

Textbooks for graduate students (American and British History)

- Mélanie Cournil, Maud Michaud & Tanguy Martin-Payen. Innovations scientifiques et responsabilité [Scientific Innovations and Responsibility], Neuilly (France), Atlande, 2019, 256 p.

- Mélanie Cournil, Maud Michaud & Tanguy Martin-Payen. L’idée de progrès [The Idea of Progress], Neuilly (France), Atlande, 2018, 505 p.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters (selection)

- “De Leith à la Barbade, via la côte de l’Or: le voyage triangulaire de la brigantine Neptune en 1729,” [From Leith to Barbados : The slave voyage of the Neptune Snow in 1729] Tri Tran (ed.), Caledonia, Franche-Comté (France), PUFC, 2022.

- “ ‘What Dangerous Men’: La pratique de la médecine sur l’île de la Dominique à la fin du XVIIIe siècle,” [‘What Dangerous Men’ : Practising medicine in Dominica in the 1790s] Revue de la Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, N°75, December 2018 (doi.org/10.4000/1718.1333).

- “La construction d’un discours antiabolitionniste britannique dans les années 1830: James MacQueen et la ‘controverse Mary Prince’,” [British Proslavery Rhetoric in the 1830s : James MacQueen and the Mary Prince controversy] Études écossaises, N°20, April 2018 (doi.org/10.4000/etudesecossaises.1422).

Book reviews

- Review of Stephen Mullen, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838, London : University of London Press, 2022. Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle [https://journals.openedition.org/rh19/9120], 66, 2023.

- Review of Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing c. 1770-1830, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle [https://journals.openedition.org/rh19/7995], 63, 2021.

- Review of James Walvin, Histoire du sucre, histoire du monde, Paris : La Découverte, 2020. La Vie des idées, [ https://laviedesidees.fr/L-Empire-du-sucre.html], 21 July 2021.

- Review of Michaël Roy, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol & Claire Parfait (eds.), Undoing Slavery : American Abolitionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865), Paris: Éditions de la Rue d’Ulm, 2018. E-rea [ https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10096], 18.1, 15 December 2020.

- Review of James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, Allen Lane, 2017. La Vie des idées, [https://laviedesidees.fr/L-homme-qui-voulait-posseder-le-monde.html], 30 April 2018.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (selection)

- "Collecting botanical specimens for the Glasgow Botanic Gardens: Scottish plant hunters in North America (1820s-1830s)", Omohundro Institute 27th Annual Conference , Poitiers (France), June 19-21, 2024.
- "Les réseaux scientifiques de William Jackson Hooker : une cartographie botanique de l’Empire britannique ?" [William Jackson Hooker's scientific networks: A botanical map of the British Empire?], Nineteenth-Century Worlds Seminar, CREA/Université Paris Nanterre (France), April 12, 2024.
- “Collecteurs de plantes en Amérique du Nord (1820-1841): la botanique au prisme de l’Empire britannique,” [Plant Hunters in North America (1820-1841) : Botanical practices in the British Empire], Symposium “European travellers in North America, 1600-1840,” Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France), November 10, 2023.
- “Transatlantic Circulation of Botanical Knowledge: The Glasgow Years of William Jackson Hooker (1820-1841),” Atlantic History Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, June 1, 2023 (invited talk).
- “In the Name of Science? The First Glasgow Botanic Gardens 1817-1841,” Research Seminar, The Huntington Library, San Marino (California), May 19, 2023 (invited talk).
- “Les Écossais au cœur des sociétés esclavagistes, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles”, HDEA Seminar, Sorbonne University (France), May 15, 2019 (invited talk).
- “‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot?’ Les Écossais et le système esclavagiste britannique, XVIIe-XIXe siècles” [‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot ? Scots and Caribbean slavery], History Seminar, Sorbonne Nouvelle/Sorbonne University, Paris (France), December 20, 2018 (invited talk).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

- University of Glasgow Visiting Research Fellowship, Glasgow, 2024
- Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, May-June 2023.
- Best PhD thesis award by the Société d’Études Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, 2017.
- One-month research fellowship, Maison Française d’Oxford, Oxford, June 2013.

ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (selection)

- Co-organiser (with Maud Michaud) of the conference “A la racine du savoir: pratiques botaniques en contexte impérial” [At the root of knowledge: Botanical practices in imperial context], Sorbonne University (France), November 8, 2024 (upcoming event)

- Co-organiser (with Yves Figueiredo, Université Paris Cité, France) of the panel “Power and Empowerment in Ecological Perspective”, 55th Annual Conference of the French Society of American Studies, May 21-23, 2024 (upcoming event)

- Co-organiser of the HDEA Conference, “Exploring the Contours of Wellness and Health”, Sorbonne University (France), March 23-25, 2023.

- Co-organiser (with Benjamine Toussaint & Jeanne Schaaf) of the 21st annual conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies, “Scottish Territories and Memories”, Sorbonne University (France), November 17-19, 2022.

- Co-organiser (with Trevor Burnard, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber & Agnès Delahaye) of the international conference “Early American Slaveries”, Wilberforce Institute, Hull (United Kingdom), April 20-21, 2022.

- Convenor of the HDEA seminar (English and American Studies, Sorbonne University, France), 2020-2022.

- Co-organiser (with Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber) of the international conference “Slave Families and Households, 17th-19th Centuries”, Sorbonne University (France), October 18, 2019.

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

- Member of the editorial board of Études écossaises academic journal, 2024-ongoing

- Elected board member of the HDEA Research Team (Sorbonne University, Paris), January 2019-ongoing.

- Member of the editorial board of La Vie des Idées/Books & Ideas online academic journals (Collège de France), 2016-2021.