John Keiger

Diplomé de l' Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, section Relations Internationales (1971-74); Phd in History, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (1980).

After a Social Science Research Council scholarship for doctoral research at Cambridge, where he taught history as a graduate teaching assistant, John Keiger moved to the University of Salford. He returned to the University of Cambridge in November 2012 until 2017 where he was a member of the Department of Politics and International Studies.

His research and publications have concentrated on the international history of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. His research focus is principally French foreign policy, its bureaucratic politics, how it is formulated, by whom and how it is executed.

Until December 2009 he was Director of the European Studies Research Institute and then Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the University of Salford. He has been Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, University of Aix-Marseille III, the University of Clermont-Ferrand, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po) and University of Paris 13. John Keiger has, in addition, given advice to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, evidence to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee and to the French Assemblée Nationale. He is an external member of the board of the Ecole doctorales of the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle. He has served on a number of journal editorial boards in France and Britain and is President of the Association Internationale d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Europe based in Strasbourg. He was a member of the French government 'Commission Nationale Université-Emploi' (Commission Hetzel, 2006) on the reform of French Higher Education.  Since 2007 he has been an 'expert' for the French Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur (AERES now Haut Conseil pour l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur, HCERES) for historical research and as president of the evaluation committees of French and francophone higher education institutions, such as Université Paris Dauphine, Université Saint Joseph, Beirut,the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Université Toulouse-Capitole, Université Aix-Marseille 3, the Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient, the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. In January 2012 he was a member of the AERES international panel to evaluate France's Agence Nationale de la Recherche. From 2013 to 2017 he was the principal investigator for a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council major grant comparing the British and French foreign ministries 1919 to 1973 and the idea of Europe entitled 'Networks and Actors in the British and French Foreign Ministries and the Idea of Europe'.
John Keiger is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.