Max Weber Fellow
Department of History
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
Contact info
blaise.truongloi@eui.eu
Blaise Truong-Loï received his PhD in history from Sciences Po in 2024 with a dissertation entitled “Bringing Capital (Back) to Life: A History of International Financial Control Institutions between Sovereignties, Imperialisms and Capitalist Globalisations (1870–1914)”. He was awarded the triennial best dissertation prize—category "long nineteenth-century"— by the International Economic History Association (IEHA) at the 2025 World Economic History Congress in Lund. His research explores the social, political, and environmental dimensions of financial globalisation and global economic governance. Drawing on insights from other disciplines (economics, political science, law, sociology…), his work emphasises the significance of the late nineteenth century for understanding contemporary debates on capitalism. His first article on the subject was recently published (in French) in the Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine. As a Max Weber Fellow, Blaise intends to transform his dissertation into a monograph and to publish peer-reviewed articles on topics such as the transnational bondholders’ movement in the 1900s and the environmental implications of international capital flows. He is also keen to launch a new research project on the global fight against wine phylloxera and other agricultural pests in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Before joining the EUI, Blaise was a junior lecturer at Paris Nanterre University, where he taught nineteenth-century history, the history of global economic governance, and quantitative methods for social sciences.