Biography[edit]
Born in 1974, Lebourg studied sociology at Aix-Marseille University and history at the University of Perpignan, from which he graduated with a PhD in contemporary history in 2005,[1][2] after a thesis on French national revolutionaries during the period 1940–2002.[3]
Between 2015 and 2017, he was a research fellow in the program "History of fascism in Europe and Eurasia" at George Washington University, under the supervision of French historian Marlène Laruelle. In 2017–2018, he was a project researcher in the study group "The Far Right in Europe and Russia’s Role and Influence" for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.[2]
Lebourg also comments on the current political events in various newspapers such as Slate, Mediapart and Libération.[4][1]