Marie Puren

Associate Professor // Head of the Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences group

Team

Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Campus

Paris

Contact

marie.puren@epita.fr

Research Area

Political History
Digital Humanities
Digital History
IA for History

Me in brief:

  • Associate Professor in history and digital humanities, leading the Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences group.
  • PhD in history from the École Nationale des Chartes; graduate of Sciences Po Paris.
  • Research on modern French political and media history and on digital humanities.
  • President of Humanistica and President-Elect of the Constituent Organizations Board (COB) at ADHO.

Short Bio

I graduated from Sciences Po Paris and hold both a Master’s degree in digital humanities and a PhD in history from the École Nationale des Chartes, where my research explored the intersection of political and media history. I am currently Associate Professor in history and digital humanities at the LRE, where I lead the Digital Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences group, and an associate researcher at the Centre Jean-Mabillon of the École Nationale des Chartes.

My career has included positions as a research engineer with the ALMAnaCH team at Inria and as a postdoctoral researcher at the LARHRA laboratory, as well as a visiting fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, in 2024, where I worked on the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection (1944–1946) held at the Cambridge University Library.

My research focuses on the political history of modern France, particularly the Third Republic, and on the history of books and media. In collaboration with LARHRA, I coordinated the AGODA project, funded by the BnF DataLab, which explored digitized parliamentary debates of the French Third Republic. I also serve as President of Humanistica, the francophone association for digital humanities, and as President-Elect of the Constituent Organizations Board (COB) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Research

Research Interests

My research interests focus on the political history of modern France (Third Republic, 1870–1940), and in particular on the new contributions of the digital humanities to this field. My current work includes:

  • the parliamentary history of the Third Republic,
  • the history of the press during the Third Republic,
  • the contribution of generative AI to the exploration of large collections of historical documents.

Publications

A complete list of my publications is available on:

Teaching

ING1 level (last year of undergrad studies)

  • Digital Ethics (in French and in English). Lectures: 8h / tutorials: 4h

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity (undergrad studies)

  • Working methods with GitLab (1st year). Lectures: 8h : tutorials/ 4h
  • Digital Ethics (3rd year). Lectures: 8h : tutorials/ 4h

IA Institut 1st year (undergrad studies focusing on AI programming and project management)

  • Controversy Mapping. A one-week course project combining lectures and interactive small-group tutorials (20h)