Professor Dr. Keith Rathbone

Biography

Keith Rathbone (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2015) researches twentieth century French social cultural history. His book, entitled 'Sport Physical Culture Occupied France: Authoritarianism, Agency Everyday Life' (Manchester University Press, 2022), examines physical education and sports as a means to understand civic life under the dual authoritarian systems of the German Occupation and the Vichy Regime. His research investigates physical culture, addressing historiographic issues of continuity between the Republic and the Vichy Regime, as well as the gendered ideology within Vichy sports programs and the development of collaboration and resistance. He has held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the College of Wooster. He has lectured at Sciences Po in Paris and Indiana University Northwest.

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