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Maud Bracke is a historian specializing in social, gender, and political history of 20th century Europe. Educated in Belgium and Italy, she has worked in the Netherlands, France, and the UK. She began her career studying West European communism during the Cold War, specifically focusing on the impact of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 on Italian and French communist parties. Her research has been published in monographs and articles on post-1945 history of the European left, political mobilizations in 1968, and collective memory of World War II. In 2010, her research shifted towards women’s and gender history, resulting in a monograph on Italian feminism from the late 1970s, and numerous articles on Italian, French, and transnational feminisms. In 2020, she began studying global history of reproductive rights, publishing articles on family planning activism in post-war France and Italy, and the emergence of reproductive rights thinking within global feminist networks. She received the AHRC Leadership Fellowship for her project 'Inventing Reproductive Rights: Bodies, Sex, and Population in Europe, 1945-1995'. Bracke has contributed to edited volumes and led collaborative research projects funded by AHRC, the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Leverhulme Trust. Currently, she supervises PhD students and teaches courses on reproductive rights and gender history.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow
Conducting research and teaching in the fields of social, gender, and political history.