Claude Ewert
I am a historian of European Integration history, focusing on the European Community's relations with the Soviet Union. Under the supervision of Mark B. Smith, my PhD dissertation is looking at these relations from 1973 to 1991. At Cambridge, I continued the research I started with my Master's dissertation, which dealt with EC-USSR relations from 1958 to 1972.
I have a BA in European History and an MA in Contemporary European History, both from the University of Luxembourg, where I also worked as a student research assistant for the Center of Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the Institute of History (IHIST).
My current research is supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg (FNR).
I am particularly interested in how Western European nations conducted relations with the USSR/Russia on a bilateral level, but also how they converge, and diverge, in the European integration process. I also like to consider and analyse events in a longue durée approach.
Moreover, I have a general interest in what you could call 'Cold War pop culture', eg. how the Soviet Union is depicted in Hollywood movies from the 1980s.
I supervise Paper 17 and Paper 18, teach HAP seminars and lectures, and teach Part 1A Skills seminars.
‘Digital Accessibility of EU Archives: A Case Study on Digital Archive Research Concerning EC-USSR Relations’ (presented at the 16th History of European Integration Research Society Conference, Luxembourg, 2020)
‘How Digitisation can make Historical Research Covid-resistant’ (presented at the ESRC DTP 2021 Conference, Cambridge, 2021)
'From Flexible to Flawed: How the Common Commercial Policy changed EEC-USSR Trade Relations' (presented at the Yale MacMillian Center's Europe Today: Challenges and Opportunities Conference, New Haven (CT), 2021)
Chair of the ‘Europe and Energy’ panel at Yale University’s Europe at the Crossroads Conference, New Haven (CT), 2022
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Wolfson College, Barton Road
CB3 9BB, Cambridge
Key publications
‘The Gaze to the East (Establishing EEC–USSR Relations 1958–1972), Research Report from the Master’s Dissertation in Contemporary European History, University of Luxembourg 2019; Supervised by Dr Spero Paravantis’, in: Hémecht. Zeitschrift Für Luxemburger Geschichte, 72.3 (2020), 354–56
‘From Flexible to Flawed: How the Common Commercial Policy changed EEC-USSR trade relations’, in: Yale European Studies Graduate Fellows Conference, “Europe Today: Challenges & Opportunities” (2021), 79-84 (https://issuu.com/yaleeuropeanstudies/docs/europe_today_conference_journal-2021)