Vincent Dubé-Senécal

Academic interests

My main research interests are contemporary French international relations, transatlantic collaboration and competition, and State power within a globalized transnational context. My current research project within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions aims to study the role of French women’s sartorial fashion in France’s international relations with a focus on both its interaction with the European Economic Community (EEC) and its influence on the American mass market during the 1960s and 1970s. This approach is meant to open up the fields of Fashion History and International Relations History to each other. This will be done through the analysis of the influence of women’s sartorial fashion on the American mass market as well as within the context of the EEC through the prism of the French authorities (industrial, governmental and diplomatic).

Academic qualifications

• BSc in International Studies at Université de Montréal, 2011
• MA in History at Université de Montréal, 2014
• Master's Degree Graduate Certificate in Postsecondary Teaching at Université de Montréal, 2015
• PhD in History at Université de Montréal, 2019

Awards

• Francis-Abud Award for the best master or thesis in Canadian or European history of international relations, Université de Montréal (2019)
• PhD Scholarship (B2), Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (2017)

Positions held

• 2018-2020: Analyst at Montréal's French-speaking school board (CSSDM)
• 2011-2018: Teaching Assistant at Université de Montréal

Publication

Dubé-Senécal, Vincent (2020). La mode française. Vecteur d'influence aux États-Unis (1946-1960). Presses de l'Université Laval. ISBN 978-2-7637-4902-0. 332 p.