Marcandria Peraut

Marcandria Peraut is a postdoctoral researcher in history at the University of the Antilles and the Maison Française d’Oxford, from January to December 2025. His current research focuses on the connections and circulations between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean from the 18th to the 21st century. He pays particular attention to the large-scale deportations of Corsicans and Antilleans under the Consulate and the Empire.

Specialised in issues of memory, he completed a PhD in history and historical anthropology at the University of Corsica. Entitled Between History and Memory: Uses, Representations, and Metamorphoses of Memory in Corsica, 18th–21st Centuries, the thesis, defended in November 2024, will be published by Le Bord de l’eau in August 2025.

He recently published an article in the Revue d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles on the political use of Paoli in the United States during the American Revolution. He has spoken at various academic events, including at Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle (“Memory and Forgetting”), in Bordeaux (“Revolts and Revolutions in Europe and the Americas”), and in Montpellier (“Representations of Mediterranean Space in the 17th and 18th Centuries”).

He has also given two lectures in Martinique, at the Territorial Archives (Corsican and Antillean Deportees under the Consulate and the Empire (1802–1803)) and at the University of the Antilles (Protest in Martinique (1635–2021): From the Mango Tree of Liberty to the Toppling of Statues).