Philippe Poirrier , born in 1963, is a historian French specialist in the cultural Histoire of contemporary France. He is professor of Modern history to the Université of Burgundy and member of the Center Georges-Chevrier (UMR n° 5605 of CNRS).

He is member of the Comité of history of the Ministry for the Culture (France) and associated member of the Center of cultural history of the contemporary companies of the Université of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines. He is also responsible for the heading “Notes of reading” of the review Policultures , and person in charge of the pole “Inheritances” of the House of the social sciences of Dijon.Il is responsible for the edition of the electronic Letter of the Association for the development of the cultural history (ADHC). He is editor association of the review U-Culture (S) .

Its current research relates on the history of the public policies of the culture and to the history of social sciences, in particular the cultural history.

Principal publications

• Gothic. Burgundian Middle Ages and its modern and contemporary second readings , with Laurent Baridon, Dijon-Paris, University Editions of Dijon/History at the Present, 1992. historical work, 1991, n° 27.

• Lives and legends of Saint Bernard: creation, diffusion, reception. Acts of the meetings of Dijon. June 6th and 7th 1991 , with Jacques Berlioz and Patrick Arabeyre, Cîteaux, Cîteaux, commentarii cistercienses, 1993.
• Company and culture in France since 1945 , the Threshold, Paris, 1998
• the State and Culture in France at the 20th century , French general Bookstore ( the Book of Pocket ), Paris, 2000. Second edition brought up to date in 2006.
• To approach the history , the Threshold, Paris, 2000
• Local government agencies and the Culture. Forms of institutionalization (19th-20th centuries) , with Vincent Dubois, French Documentation, Paris, 2002
• Cultural policies in France , French Documentation, Paris, 2002
• For a history of the policies of the inheritance , with Loïc Vadelorge, French Documentation and Committee of history of the Ministry for the Culture, Paris, 2003
• the Invention of the inheritance in Burgundy , university Editions of Dijon, Dijon, 2004
• Stakes of the cultural history , the Threshold (" Histoire" points;), Paris, 2004
• the Cultural policy in debate. Anthology, 1955-2005 , with Genevieve Nice, French Documentation, Paris, 2006
• the time of the social sciences. Gaston Roupnel and the Thirties , with Annie Bleton-Ruget, Paris, Editions the Manuscript, 2006
• Art and capacity of 1848 to our days, Paris, Cndp, 2006
• Cultural policy and inheritances, Culture & Museums , January-June 2007, n°9.