Robert Gildea
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Robert Gildea (born 1952) is professor of modern French history at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history. He studied as an undergraduate at Merton College and then took at a D.Phil in French provincial education. For his 2002 Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation (London: Picador. ISBN 0-312-42359-4), Gildea won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. The book, however, outraged members of the French academical elite through its documented claims that life in France had not been as adversely affected by the Nazi occupation because many French people had co-operated with the German invaders - far more so than previously believed. He lives in Oxford. He was elevated to the more prestigious position of Professor of Modern History at Oxford University in September 2006, and is currently attached to Worcester College. He has been known throughout the course of his teaching career to enjoy his alcohol, especially at Merton History Society Dinners and the like, and to end up, through obviously no fault of his own, going clubbing with his students.
