Emmanuel Delille

Emmanuel Delille is a Professor of Contemporary History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM) in Lyon. He holds an HDR (2022) and a PhD (2008) from prestigious institutions. His research focuses on the history of psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, and medical history, with particular attention to France, Germany, and Canada. He has been a researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) and the Centre d'Archives en Philosophie, Histoire et Édition des Sciences (CAPHES, Paris).

Education: PhD in History from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2008), HDR from École Normale Supérieure-PSL (2022).

Research Interests include psychiatric epidemiology, intellectual networks, and the history of mental health concepts. He collaborates with international teams on projects like transcultural psychiatry's origins and post-war mental health studies.

Awards: 2022 Prix Paul Vigné d’Octon for his book on Henri Ellenberger.

He contributes to supervising doctoral students and organizes conferences on topics like psychiatric history and ethical decision-making in extreme situations. His work bridges history, philosophy, and medical anthropology, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches.