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Alex Tipei

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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'histoire

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-6114

alex.tipei@umontreal.ca

514 343-6111 #30104

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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Centre d'études et de recherches internationales

alex.tipei@umontreal.ca

Affiliations

  • Membre – CÉRIUM — Centre d'études et de recherches internationales

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Transnational Histories of Corruption in Central-South-East Europe Projet de recherche à l’international / 2023 - 2028

Co-researchers : Alex Tipei
Historical period: 19th century 18th century

La mondialisation sous tension (MST)_Aux confins de la mondialisation: la gouvernance mondiale et ses limites Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2028

Lead researcher : Vincent Pouliot
Co-researchers : Alex Tipei
Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(SE) Programme Soutien aux équipes de recherche - Stade de développement : Renouvellement

Re-imagining Europe’s Boundaries, Democracy, and Transnational Authority - (REBOUND) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2026

Lead researcher : Luna Vives , Laurie Beaudonnet
Co-researchers : Frédéric Mérand , Christine Rothmayr Allison , Ahmed Hamila , Alex Tipei , Catherine Xhardez , Juliet Johnson , Maria Popova
Funding sources: Commission européenne (La)
Grant programs:

At the Edge of Soft Power: French SaintSimonians and NineteenthCentury Visions of Development Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2024

Lead researcher : Alex Tipei
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir

On the edges of Europe : Southeastern European Public Figures and the Solidification of Europe's Geographic, Cultural, and Racial Frontiers Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2023

Lead researcher : Alex Tipei
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVX20020-Subvention institutionnelle du CRSH - Subventions d'exploration

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Monographs:

Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, & the Post-Napoleonic World, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.

In progress:

Empirical Plunder: France’s Scientific Expeditions, (In)Formal Empire, & the Making of Peripheries

Edited Volumes (co-editor):

Conceptualizing Corruption: Between Old Regimes & New Orders in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s), co-edited with Silvia Marton. Bloomsbury Press, anticipated fall 2026.

Journal Articles:

“What Did Romanianness Mean to Ion? Moving Beyond Methodological Nationalism through Keith Hitchin’s Pedagogy,” Journal of Romanian Studies, 6:2(2024): 217-237.

“‘And Mama Studied with Me’: Elementary Education, Modernization, Gendered Curricula, & the Reconfiguration of the Public & Private in the Danubian Principalities & Greek lands, 1810s-1840s,” East European Politics & Societies, 31:1 (2023): 239-263.

“How to Make Friends & Influence People: Elementary Education, French ‘Influence,’ & the Balkans, 1815-40s” Modern Intellectual History, 15:3 (Nov., 2018): 621-649.

     Romanian Translation: “Cum să-ți faci prieteni și să ‘influența’ franceză și Balcanii, anii 1815-1830” Revista Istorică, 32:4-6 (2021): 373-398.

“Audience Matters: ‘Civilization-Speak,’ Educational Discourses, & Balkan Nationalism, 1815-40,” European History Quarterly, 48:4 (Fall, 2018): 658-685.

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

“Greek Brothers & Phanariot Foes: Ion Eliade-Rădulescu, Anti-Phanariotism, & the Legacies of Grecophone Culture in the Danubian Lands,” in Phanariot Corruption. Silvia Marton, Andrei-Dan Sorescu, & Alex R. Tipei (eds.), in progress.

“Introduction” (co-authored with Silvia Marton) in Conceptualizing Corruption: Between Old Regimes & New Orders in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s). Silvia Marton & Alex R. Tipei (eds.). Bloomsbury Press, anticipated fall 2026.

“Critique & Construct: Good Governance, Corruption, & Modernity across the Transition to Greek Independence,” in Silvia Marton & Alex R. Tipei (eds.). Bloomsbury Press, anticipated fall 2026.

“Accusations of Tyranny & the Foreign Financing of Infrastructure in the Early Greek State: Mobilizing the Imperial Past in Pursuit of French Informal Empire,” in What Binds Must Also Separate: Infrastructural Development, Corruption, Xenophobia, & Colonial Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century South-Eastern Europe, Silvia Marton & Andrei-Dan Sorescu (eds.), Central European University Press, 2026.

“A Corrupt Governor? Kapodistrias’s Assassination in the Francophone Press,” in New Dimensions of 1821, Christine Philliou & Katerina Lagos (eds.), Bloomsbury Press, under review.

“Korais’s Greece & Napoleon’s Empire: The Egyptian Campaign, Race Science, & the Europeanization of an Idea,” in From the Napoleonic Age to the Age of Empires: Empire after the Emperor, Thomas Dodman & Aurélien Lignereux (eds.), (Palgrave, 2023).

Conference Proceedings:

“Care & the Politics of Sentiment,” The Workshop (Proceedings of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 4 (June, 2016): 70-72.

“Civilization & the Xenos,” The Workshop (Proceedings of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 3 (June, 2015): 41-42.

Book Reviews:

J. Hobbs, Gender, Emotion, & the Origins of the Democracy in July Monarchy France: The Liberal Crucible, H-France Review, forthcoming.

C. Ardeleanu, The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 43:1 (May, 2025).

T. Zervas, Formal & Informal Education during the Rise of Greek Nationalism: Learning to Be Greek, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 37:1 (May, 2019).

E. Davidova, Balkan Transitions to Modernity & Nation-States. Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s), Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 34:1 (May, 2016):177-178.

Opinion Pieces:

“Why All Humanists Should Go to Prison,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 30, 2016, print & online.

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