Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|11|25}}
| education = École normale supérieure de Sèvres, École pratique des hautes études
| occupation = Historian, Africanist
| known_for = Research on colonization, imperialism, and capitalism in Africa
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Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (born 25 November 1935 in Paris) is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.
Biography
She graduated from the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in 1959. She earned her third cycle doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études in 1966. She was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 1987, at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and at the Humanities Research Center, University of Canberra at the University of Canberra in 1995.
Her research deals with the political issues of colonization as well as the idea of imperialism and capitalism in Africa.{{Cite web|title=COQUERY-VIDROVITCH Catherine - Société française d'histoire des outre-mers|url=http://www.sfhom.com/spip.php?article113|access-date=2021-02-15|website=www.sfhom.com}}
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Category:Grand Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
Category:Commanders of the Legion of Honour
Category:Historians of slavery
Category:21st-century French historians
Category:20th-century French historians
Category:French women historians
Category:20th-century French women writers
Category:21st-century French women writers
Category:Historians of the Republic of the Congo
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