Paul Jankowski is a history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 professor at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

. Jankowski has given several lectures concerning important world affairs such as the Paris riots. He has written books about events like the Stavisky Affair

Stavisky Affair

The Stavisky Affair was a 1934 financial scandal generated by the actions of embezzler Alexandre Stavisky. It had political ramifications for the French Radical Socialist moderate government of the day...

. He is the Raymond Ginger Professor of History at Brandeis University, and the former chair of the history department. His expertise is in modern French and European history, as well as war and conflict in European history. He did his undergraduate and doctoral work at Oxford University.

Publications

• Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue (Cornell University Press, 2002)
• Cette vilaine affaire Stavisky. Histoire d'un scandale politique (Editions Artheme Fayard, 2000)
• Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille 1919-1944 (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989)
• Shades of Indignation. Political Scandals in France, Past and present. Oxford and new York: Berghahn, 2008