Anne Zink


Anne Zink is a French historian and honorary professor of modern history. A student of Pierre Goubert, she specialises in the history of the Ancien Régime.

Biography

She is the daughter of the poet and Marthe Cohn. Her brother is writer Michel Zink and her sister is mathematician Odile Favaron. Anne Zink was a student at the École normale supérieure de Sèvres, studying history and geography, receiving a third-cycle doctorate in 1965 and a State doctorate in 1985.

Career

She was an assistant professor at the Université de Paris X-Nanterre. She was named professor of modern history at the université Clermont-Ferrand-II.
Her works in social history are based on vast archival research, reconstructing the lives of small communities. She has become one of the foremost experts on rural life in southwestern France under the Ancien Régime. Her research takes place at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Her work is situated at the crossroads of history, geography, ethnology, and law. She has made several studies of the history of Sephardic Judaism in France, particularly in the southwest.

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