Professor Renaud Morieux

Prof Morieux specialises in transnational history in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on Britain, France and their empires. His research interests include the history of migration, oceanic borders, incarceration, and the history of international law.

His recent publications include The Channel. England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press: 2016). The Channel won the 2017 Leo Gershoy Award awarded by the American Historical Association for 'the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of 17th- and 18th-century European history'. His book The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press: 2019), explores British and French concepts and experiences of war captivity in the long eighteenth century, on a global scale (Europe, the Caribbean, St Helena).

Prof Morieux is currently working on two projects. The first one is about the repercussions of war on families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in particular in the Indian Ocean. The second one is a reflexive history of statelessness from the 1920s to the present.