Alex Tipei est une historienne transnationale. Ses recherches portent sur les réseaux d’élites politiques et intellectuels qui ont lié l’Europe du sud-est à la France pendant le XIXe siècle. Elle a obtenu son doctorat à l’Université d’Indiana et elle a eu des postes en tant que chercheure et/ou enseignante aux universités d’Illinois, Princeton, McGill et de Bucarest avant de commencer sa position chez UdeM.

A transnational historian of Europe, Alex Tipei’s research focuses on networks of political and intellectual elites that connected Southeastern Europe (notably the lands that make up present-day Romania and Greece) and France in the early nineteenth century. She received her PhD from Indiana University and held research and teaching positions at the University of Illinois, Princeton University, McGill University, and the University of Bucharest before coming to UdeM.

Monographs:

Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, & the Post-Napoleonic World, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.

In progress:

Empirical Plunder: France’s Scientific Expeditions, (In)Formal Empire, & the Making of Peripheries

Edited Volumes (co-editor):

Conceptualizing Corruption: Between Old Regimes & New Orders in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s), co-edited with Silvia Marton. Bloomsbury Press, anticipated fall 2026.

Journal Articles:

“What Did Romanianness Mean to Ion? Moving Beyond Methodological Nationalism through Keith Hitchin’s Pedagogy,” Journal of Romanian Studies, 6:2(2024): 217-237.

“‘And Mama Studied with Me’: Elementary Education, Modernization, Gendered Curricula, & the Reconfiguration of the Public & Private in the Danubian Principalities & Greek lands, 1810s-1840s,” East European Politics & Societies, 31:1 (2023): 239-263.

“How to Make Friends & Influence People: Elementary Education, French ‘Influence,’ & the Balkans, 1815-40s” Modern Intellectual History, 15:3 (Nov., 2018): 621-649.

     Romanian Translation: “Cum să-ți faci prieteni și să ‘influența’ franceză și Balcanii, anii 1815-1830” Revista Istorică, 32:4-6 (2021): 373-398.

“Audience Matters: ‘Civilization-Speak,’ Educational Discourses, & Balkan Nationalism, 1815-40,” European History Quarterly, 48:4 (Fall, 2018): 658-685.

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

“Greek Brothers & Phanariot Foes: Ion Eliade-Rădulescu, Anti-Phanariotism, & the Legacies of Grecophone Culture in the Danubian Lands,” in Phanariot Corruption. Silvia Marton, Andrei-Dan Sorescu, & Alex R. Tipei (eds.), in progress.

“Introduction” (co-authored with Silvia Marton) in Conceptualizing Corruption: Between Old Regimes & New Orders in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s). Silvia Marton & Alex R. Tipei (eds.). Bloomsbury Press, anticipated fall 2026.

“Critique & Construct: Good Governance, Corruption, & Modernity across the Transition to Greek Independence,” in Silvia Marton & Alex R. Tipei (eds.). Bloomsbury Press, anticipated fall 2026.

“Accusations of Tyranny & the Foreign Financing of Infrastructure in the Early Greek State: Mobilizing the Imperial Past in Pursuit of French Informal Empire,” in What Binds Must Also Separate: Infrastructural Development, Corruption, Xenophobia, & Colonial Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century South-Eastern Europe, Silvia Marton & Andrei-Dan Sorescu (eds.), Central European University Press, 2026.

“A Corrupt Governor? Kapodistrias’s Assassination in the Francophone Press,” in New Dimensions of 1821, Christine Philliou & Katerina Lagos (eds.), Bloomsbury Press, under review.

“Korais’s Greece & Napoleon’s Empire: The Egyptian Campaign, Race Science, & the Europeanization of an Idea,” in From the Napoleonic Age to the Age of Empires: Empire after the Emperor, Thomas Dodman & Aurélien Lignereux (eds.), (Palgrave, 2023).

Conference Proceedings:

“Care & the Politics of Sentiment,” The Workshop (Proceedings of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 4 (June, 2016): 70-72.

“Civilization & the Xenos,” The Workshop (Proceedings of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 3 (June, 2015): 41-42.

Book Reviews:

J. Hobbs, Gender, Emotion, & the Origins of the Democracy in July Monarchy France: The Liberal Crucible, H-France Review, forthcoming.

C. Ardeleanu, The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 43:1 (May, 2025).

T. Zervas, Formal & Informal Education during the Rise of Greek Nationalism: Learning to Be Greek, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 37:1 (May, 2019).

E. Davidova, Balkan Transitions to Modernity & Nation-States. Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s), Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 34:1 (May, 2016):177-178.

Opinion Pieces:

“Why All Humanists Should Go to Prison,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 30, 2016, print & online.