Laurent Heyberger is professor of modern history, research center FEMTO-ST 6174 of the CNRS, University of technology of Belfort-Montbéliard. He specialises in cliometrics and demographic history, more specifically in the New Anthropometric History of France and Algeria (last book: Laurent Heyberger, Les Corps en colonie. Faim, maladies, guerres et crises démographiques en Algérie au XIXe siècle. Approche anthropométrique, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2019 and in English « A great colonial divergence of the biological standards of living? The secular trend of stature among indigenous people and settlers in Algeria, 1880-1940 », Popolazione e Storia, 2021, 2, p. 33-57), but also more recently in gender history.
Laurent Heyberger is professor of modern history, research center FEMTO-ST 6174 of the CNRS, University of technology of Belfort-Montbéliard. He specialises in cliometrics and demographic history, more specifically in the New Anthropometric History of France and Algeria (last book: Laurent Heyberger, Les Corps en colonie. Faim, maladies, guerres et crises démographiques en Algérie au XIXe siècle. Approche anthropométrique, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2019 and in English « A great colonial divergence of the biological standards of living? The secular trend of stature among indigenous people and settlers in Algeria, 1880-1940 », Popolazione e Storia, 2021, 2, p. 33-57), but also more recently in gender history.