Scholarships for tracks and history
Tracks and history, the association for the history of railways, grants financial aid – up to 3,000 euros per year – to students whose academic work contributes to the knowledge of rail transport. This aid is granted by the Scientific Committee of the Association as part of an agreement between the student and the Association, upon proposal and with the consent of the Research Director.
The duration of the study contract is one academic year for Masters 1 and 2, one year renewable twice for Doctorates. The annual amount of the scholarship can reach 3,000 euros.
Rails & histoire receives applications from students who are preparing dissertations in all disciplines of humanities and social sciences, engineering sciences, architecture, etc.
Thesis projects must focus on topics determined by the scientific committee for the Rails & histoire 2018-2023 research program:
- Train and ecology, 19th – 21st century
- History of railway liberalization
- Popular attachment to the railway: between acceptance, rejection and long-term mourning for the railway
- Direct links and correspondences: for a history of node management at the service of territorial accessibility in the long term
- Monographs of railway lines
- Stations and metropolitan urbanization, between history, memory and design. Railway heritage and urban project in the Île-de-France at the time of the Grand Paris Express.
- For a history of the cockpit, from steam to TGV.
- Welcome the railway worker
Number of scholarships available: 12
Applicants must be enrolled in Master 1, Master 2 or Doctorate, in Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Architecture, Heritage.
Fellows undertake to keep Rails & History Scientific Committee members informed approximately every three months about the progress of their work.
The application file is sent to the association in digital format. It must include the following parts:
Scientific project and presentation of the candidate
- main and essential piece: a research project, supplemented by a first draft bibliography and a summary of the sources that will be explored,
- the motivated recommendation of the research director, who approves the research project presented,
- a copy of the thesis of Master 1 (for Master 2), or Master 2 (for thesis)
- a curriculum vitae of the candidate,
- a letter in which he undertakes to respect the study contract that Rails & histoire will stipulate with him in case of acceptance of his application and, in particular, to carry out his project as far as possible.
Administrative documents
- a copy of the student card for the current year,
- copy of the last diploma obtained (for master and master, the license; for master 2, master 1 or the diploma of engineer, architect, etc .; for thesis, master 2 or DEA) and, for thesis, copy of the enrollment receipt of the subject to the central thesis file,
- An affidavit of the status of its assets; the candidate must be ready to provide the tax administration, if requested, with the relevant supporting documents,
- a bank account number
Applications must be sent, in paper or electronic format, to:
9 rue du Château-Landon
75010 PARIS
By Monday 14 November 2022.
The results will be communicated to the candidates during the first half of December.
Applications will be reviewed by members of the Rails & History Scientific Committee.
The Rails & histoire scholarship regulations, the application and the calendar can be consulted and downloaded from the association’s website: www.ahicf.com
- BEAUCIRE Francis, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
- BOUNEAU Christophe, professor of history at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne
- BOWIE Karen, architectural historian, emeritus professor of the National Schools of Architecture
- CHEVANDIER Christian, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Le Havre
- D’ANGIO-BARROS Agnès, chief curator of heritage, head of the public reception department of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, National Archives
- DESJARDINS Xavier, Professor of Geography at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
- JOINDOT Thomas, Mining Engineer, Head of the Structural Department, SNCF Réseau, Engineering and Projects Department
- MEILLERAND Marie-Clotilde, researcher at the Transport Economics Development Laboratory at ENTPE, Lyon
- MERGER Michèle, honorary fellow of the CNRS
- PASSALACQUA Arnaud, professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning, Lab’Urba laboratory
- PIERROT Nicolas, Chief Heritage Curator, Île-de-France Region, Department of Culture, Heritage and Inventory
- POLINO Marie-Noëlle, head of the scientific project, SNCF communication department, heritage and sponsorship department
- QUINET Émile, professor emeritus at the National School of Bridges and Roads
- RIBEILL Georges, honorary director of research at the National School of Bridges and Roads (LATTS)
- RODRIGUEZ-SPOLTI Stéphane, DEATA representative, National Archives
- SMITH Paul, Secretary General of the Information and Liaison Committee for Archeology, Study and Development of Industrial Heritage (CILAC)
- TISSOT Laurent, professor of history at the University of Neuchâtel
- VESTON Véronique, heritage architect, AREP
- WILLIOT Jean-Pierre, professor of history at the Sorbonne University
- ZEMBRI Pierre, professor of geography at the University of Paris-Est, director of the Transport Laboratory of the Ville Mobilité
For more information, see the dedicated page from the Rails & History website.
Tracks and history
9 rue du Château-Landon
75010 PARIS
