Philippe Vonnard

Education and work experience

Trainings

PhD in Sport Sciences and Physical Education (specialization: contemporary history)
Title of the thesis (presented le 12.12.2016)
Genesis of European football. From FIFA to UEFA (1930-1960)
Supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Bancel (ISSUL), Prof. T. David (IEPH)
Jury: Jürgen Mittag (DSHS-Köln), Sandrine Kott (UNIGE), Fabien OHL (ISSUL)
University of Lausanne

PhD thesis published under the title:
L'Europe dans le monde du football. Genèse et formation de l'UEFA (1930-1960), Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2018
Creating a United Europe of football. The formation of UEFA (1949-1961), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
2010 - 2016
Vaud

MASTER OF ARTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
2008 - 2010
Vaud

Bachelor of Arts (specialization: International Relations)
University of Lausanne
2005 - 2008
Vaud

Formation in Bank + MPC
2002 - 2004

Entrance exam Fac. SSP (University of Lausanne)
2004 - 2005

Work experience

SNSF Senior researcher fellow (University of Fribourg/History section) (70%)
Coordination of the projet: "The globalisation of the Alps: from landscape to environment. A transnational history through mountaineering (1930s - 1990s)" (207784)
Research team of Prof. Claude Hauser
2022

Lecturer (University of Lausanne - ISSUL/SSP) (14%)
Course: "Research methodology"
2022 - 2023

Lecturer (University of Neuchâtel) (15%)
Course: Socio-historcal approach of sports"
2022 - 2022

SNSF Senior researcher fellow (University of Lausanne/ISSUL) (80%)
Coordinator of the proje: "La Fabrique des sports nationaux. Les élites du sport suisse et l'institutionnalisation d'un champ sportif suisse (années 1860-1930)" (no 189521)
Research Team of Dr. Grégory Quin.

2019 - 2022
Vaud

Head of project (University of Lausanne/ISSUL) (20%)
Help to the research and to the publications (Research team of Dr. Grégory Quin)
2018 - 2018
Vaud

Head of project (University of Lausanne) (20%)
Project: "Les agents du professionnalisme. L'émergence de nouvelles professions dans le football européen
(années 1960 - années 2000)"
Funder: University of Lausanne
2019 - 2020
Vaud

Visiting scholars (University of Paris-Sorbonne/ISCC) (100%)
Project: "Connecter l'Europe par le football. Pour une approche "relationnelle" de l'histoire de l'UEFA (années 1960-années 1980)"
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant: Early Postdoc.mobility, no 171799)
Place: Conducted within the LabEx "Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l'Europe" (EHNE), axis 1.
2017 - 2018
France

Visiting scholars (Deutsche sporthochschule, Köln) (100%)
Project: "L'Europe de l'Union... une Europe avant l'heure. L'UEFA : un lieu diplomatique européen au temps de la première phase de la Guerre froide (1946-1972)"
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant: Doc.mobility, no 155077)
Place: Conducted in collaboration with the work of Prof. J. Mittag about Europe and sport
2014 - 2015
Allemagne

PhD student & teaching assistant (University of Lausanne/ISSUL) (100%)
Teaching-assistant on the course of Prof. Nicolas Bancel
Logistical help at the Institute work
2010 - 2016
Vaud

Others activities

Co-director of the CRHIM
Centre of International History and Political Studies of Globalization
2019 - 2021
Suisse

Editorial activities
Anonymous reviews for the following journals:
Sport in history, Soccer & Society, Sciences sociales & Sport, Storia dello sport. Rivista di studi contemporanei, Sport History Review, Teoros

Member of the board of the journals:
Les sports modernes
Football(s)

Co-editor of the collection: RERIS studies in International Sports Relations (Oldenburg, De Gruyter)

UNIL-ULB privileged parnerships coordinator
Co-coordinator (with Prof. F. Louault, ULB) of the projet: "Les enjeux du passage au professionnalisme dans le football. Regards croisés et interdisciplinaires à partir d'étude de cas en Belgique et en Suisse"
2019 - 2020
Suisse

RERIS coordinator
Co-founder and webmaster of the Réseau d'études des relations internationales sportives (RERIS)
www.reris.net
2015

AvaHs president
Président of the l'Association pour la valorisation des archives et de l'histoire des sports (avahs.net), qui promotes cultural and scientific mediations in the domains of sports.

Competences

Research topics