Dr David Todd

Biography

David Todd joined the department as a lecturer in world history in 2010. He read history at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and received a Diplôme from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2005 and was subsequently a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, a Mellon post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. In 2012, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme prize. David Todd joined the department as a lecturer in world history in 2010. He read history at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and received a Diplôme from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2005 and was subsequently a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, a Mellon post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. In 2012, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme prize.

Research Interest

The political and economic history of French overseas expansion; The impact of the world on French politics and society; Anglo-French exchanges and collaboration; Political and economic thought about empire.