Fabien KNITTEL

Fabien Knittel is a lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Franche-Comté and a researcher at the Centre Lucien Febvre. He is also deputy general secretary of the Association d'Histoire des Sociétés Rurales. His current research focuses on the history of rural farming techniques in nineteenth-century France and Western Europe. With Pascal Raggi and Nadège Mariotti, he co-edited Le travail en Europe occidentale des années 1830 aux années 1930. Mains-d'œuvre artisanales et industrielles, pratiques et questions sociales (Ellipses, 2020). He is also the author of Agronomie et techniques laitières. Le cas des fruitières de l'Arc jurassien (1790-1914), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021, 392 p. He recently published the article "Milk and hygiene in Eastern France: the 'goutte de lait' at Besançon and the 'œuvre du bon lait' at Bar-le-Duc (Late Nineteenth to early Twentieth Centuries)", French History, vol. 36-3, September 2022, pp. 334-347. Finally, he wrote the book La Fabrique du lait. Europe occidentale (Moyen Âge-XXe siècle), Paris, CNRS éditions, 2023, 216 p.