Madeline Woker

Madeline Woker is a historian of French colonialism, taxation and capitalism. Her work has appeared in Past & Present, the Journal of Global History as well as edited volumes. She is also finishing a book about the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire between the 1850s and the 1950s, and she regularly writes for a larger audience about the history and politics of international taxation and the afterlives of empire and colonialism. She is at the very early stages of a new project on “The Great Depression in the Age of Empire.”

She is currently a permanent lecturer (Assistant Professor) in History at the University of Sheffield. She was previously a fellow at IAS Zürich, a fixed-term Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University. She also serves as the Secretary of the Society for French Historical Studies.

She obtained her PhD from Columbia University where her dissertation was awarded the Clough Prize for the best dissertation in European history. She also holds an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge and a dual Msc degree in European affairs from LSE and Sciences Po.

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