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Education:

 
Ph.D. in History, Graduate School, Cornell University, in progress, expected completion October 2008.

• Concentrations: French History, Early Modern History, Legal Anthropology.
• Advisers: Professors Steven Kaplan (chair), Annelise Riles, Duane Corpis.

M.A. in History, Graduate School, Cornell University , 2003.

• Concentrations: French History, Early Modern History, Legal Anthropology.
• Advisers: Professors Steven Kaplan (chair), Annelise Riles, Susanne Pohl.

 
Diplôme d'Archiviste Paléographe, Ecole Nationale des chartes, Paris (France), 2001.

• Concentrations: Medieval French History, Legal History, Archival Science, Bibliotheconomy.
• Advisers: Professors Claude Gauvard, Gérard Giordanengo, Olivier Guyotjeannin .

 
M.A. in History, UFR d'Histoire, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I, Paris (France), 1998.

• Concentrations: Medieval French History, Social and Legal History.
• Adviser: Professor Claude Gauvard.

 
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles, Lycée Pierre de Fermat, Toulouse (France).

• Concentrations: Medieval and Early Modern History, Latin, Historical Geography.

 
B.A. in History, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, Toulouse (France), 1994.

• Concentrations: History, Geography, Statistics.

Languages:

• French : native speaker.
• English : fluent.
• Italian : advanced speaking and reading ability.
• Classical and Medieval Latin, Old and Middle French: advanced reading ability.
• German : reading ability.

Professional Experience:

Research Assistant to Professor Annelise Riles, Spring 2008.
Law School and Department of Anthropology, Cornell University .

Teaching Assistant , Fall 2007.
Department of History, Cornell University .
Course: Introduction to Western Civilization Part I (Professor Oren Falk)

Teaching Assistant , Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2002, Fall 2001.
Departments of Classics, Cornell University .
Course: Greek Mythology (Professor David Mankin)

Instructor, Spring 2007.
Department of History and Knight Institute, Cornell University .
Course: From evidence to forgery: how to write (and debunk) conspiracy theories 

Teaching Assistant , Spring 2003.
Departments of History and Religious Studies, Cornell University .
Course: Introduction to Christian History (Professor Kim Haines-Eitzen)

Teaching Assistant, Fall 2002.
Department of History, Cornell University .
Course: Introduction to Western Civilization (Professor Susanne Pohl )

Teaching Assistant , Spring 2002.
Departments of History and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University.
Course: Science in Western Civilization (Professor Peter Dear)

Teaching Assistant, Fall 2001.
Departments of History and Jewish Studies, Cornell University.
Course: Modern European Jewish History, 1789-1948 (Professor Vicki Caron)

Research Assistant , Fall 1996-Spring 1999.
Ecole Nationale des chartes.

• Assisted Professor Olivier Guyotjeannin with the analysis, edition, and comments of late medieval legal documents for the Album Thérouanne .
• Assisted Professor Bernard Barbiche for the new critical edition of the Edit de Nantes (published online: http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/editsdepacification/ ).
• Assisted Professor Bernard Barbiche for the new edition of the Mémoires of Claude Haton (published Paris : CTHS, 2001)
• Assisted Professor Françoise Vielliard in the nationwide investigation on the origins of vernacular languages.

Internship , June 1998.
Public cultural institutions of the department of Maine-et-Loire , Angers ( France ).

• Archive curator, Archives départementales du Maine-et-Loire.
• Library curator, Bibliothèque municipale d'Angers.
• Museum curator, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, Musée David d'Angers.

Presentations:

“Entre justice et politique: la délibération au Parlement de Toulouse à l’époque moderne (1550-1700),”

Journée d’études “Les Parlements de France (Moyen âge - Temps modernes), entre justice et politique,” Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, June 2008 (invited speaker).

“Les conseillers au Parlement de Toulouse, juges et coupables de faux”

Journée d’études “Juger le faux,” Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris, France, June 2008 (invited speaker).

“Le labyrinthe des greffes du Parlement de Toulouse, pivot de la pratique judiciaire à l’époque moderne (1555-1778),”

Colloque “Histoire de la mémoire judiciaire,” Archives nationales de France and Université Paris IV Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, March 2008.

“An engineer in the “palace” of justice: judicial space and practice in the Parlement de Toulouse (1555-1778),”

Western Society for French History Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2007.

Publications:

· Book Reviews:

Ratel, G. (2004), book review of The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423 (Daniel Lord Smail, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 27-2, 138-144.
 
Ratel, G. (2004), book review of Law’s Dream of a Common Knowledge (Mariana Valverde, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003) in Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 27-1, 138-141.

Ratel G. (1999), book review of Une société de l’honneur: les notables et leur monde à Dijon à la fin du Moyen Age (Thierry Dutour, Paris : H. Champion, 1998) in Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des chartes, 157 (1), 280-1.

Ratel G. (1999), book review of Guerre et concurrence entre les Etats Européens du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle (Philippe Contamine, ed., Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1998) in Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des chartes, 157 (1), 302-3.

· Translations:

Ratel, G. (2007), translation in French of “The Machine Breakers” (Eric Hobsbawm, Labouring Men, London: Lowe and Brydone, 1968, 5-22) and “Political Shoemakers” (Eric Hobsbawm and Joan W. Scott, Past and Present, 89 (1980), 86-114) in special issue of Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, “Eric J. Hobsbawm, un parcours d’historien dans le siècle.”

Ratel, G. (2006), translation in French of “Re-reading Foucault’s History of Madness” (Dominick LaCapra, History and Reading, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, 123-168) in Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 53-1, 7-33.

Previous Research:

Ratel, Guillaume. "« Que le droit du roi soit gardé ». Les plaidoiries des gens du roi aux parlements de Paris et de Poitiers (1418-1436). " Thèse pour le Diplôme d'Archiviste Paléographe, Ecole nationale des chartes, 2001.

Ratel, Guillaume. "Les gens du roi aux parlements de Paris et de Poitiers (1420-1424)." M.A. thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I, 1998.

Current research interests:

An social and ethnographic study of the judicial practices of the magistrates of an early modern French provincial court, the Parlement de Toulouse , in the 16 th and 17 th cent. (Ph.D. Dissertation in progress at Cornell University, supervised by Professor Steven Kaplan).

Grants, Honors and Awards:

Edward T. Gargan Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the 2007 conference of the Western Society for French History.

Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, Spring-Fall 2006.

International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, Spring-Fall 2005.

Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowship, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, Fall 2004.

Mommsen Fellowship, Cornell University, Spring 2004.

Bowmar Fellowship, Cornell University, Fall 2003.

Mellon Fellowship, Cornell University, Fall 2000-Spring 2001.

Outstanding dissertation award (thèse signalée au Ministre de l’Education nationale), Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris (France), 2001.

Entrance examination for the Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris (France), ranked 5th nationwide, 1996.

References:

The following persons have written letters of recommendation on my behalf :

Steven Kaplan, professor
Cornell University

Annelise Riles, professor
Cornell University

Peter Dear, professor
Cornell University

Duane Corpis, professor
Cornell University

Yves-Marie Bercé, professor
Ecole nationale des chartes

Claude Gauvard, professor and chair
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I

Olivier Guyotjeannin, professor
Ecole nationale des chartes