Professor Joel Felix

Biography

Professor Joel Felix is currently working as a Professor in the Department of History, University of Reading , United Kingdom. Responsibilities: From September 2013 I will take on a 3 year ESRC funded Professorial fellowship Areas of Interest: I am a historian of the Ancien Regime and the French Revolution. Initially my research focused on political crises, in particular the conflicts between the Parlements and the Crown. Over the years I have developed an interest in fiscal issues which offers the possibility of revisiting a number of debates about the early modern state and society. I am now exploring those questions within the wider European context and the struggle for great power status in the long 18th century. Historical Finance/ Fiscal History Research groups / Centres: I am one of the convenors of the Early Modern History research seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR-London), a member of the international research group on the Contractor State and its implications, 1659-1815, which is based at the University of Navarra (Spain).

Research Interest

Areas of Interest: I am a historian of the Ancien Regime and the French Revolution. Initially my research focused on political crises, in particular the conflicts between the Parlements and the Crown. Over the years I have developed an interest in fiscal issues which offers the possibility of revisiting a number of debates about the early modern state and society. I am now exploring those questions within the wider European context and the struggle for great power status in the long 18th century.