Aurélien Girard

Aurélien Girard is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, and researcher at the Centre d’Études et de Recherche en Histoire Culturelle. He is a former fellow of the École française de Rome. His research is focused on Christians and missions in the Middle East. His PhD Thesis: Le christianisme oriental (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles). Essor de l’orientalisme catholique en Europe et construction des identités confessionnelles au Proche-Orient (at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, 2011).