Books and Special Issues
Claire Nicolas, Une si longue course : Sport, genre et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire au xxe siècle (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024). Open Access
Prosperetti, Elisa, and Claire Nicolas, eds. « Special Issue: Reconsidering Ghana’s Long 1970s (1966-1979). » Ghana Studies 27 (2024). https://gs.uwpress.org/content/27/1
Georgia Cervin and Claire Nicolas, ed. Histories of Women’s Work in Global Sport. A Man’s World ? (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). Finalist of the North American Society Prize for Sport History Anthologies, 2020.
Journal articles
Nicolas, Claire. “On the Field: Race, Gender and Sports in Colonial Ghana.” Gender & History 37 (2025): 621–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12773
Angelo, Anaïs, Chikouna Cissé, Camille Evrard, Martin Mourre, Claire Nicolas, Sara Panata, Karine Ramondy, Romain Tiquet, and Joseph Tsigbé. “Editorial” Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique 8 (2025): 1-2. https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2025.edito1
Prosperetti, Elisa, and Claire Nicolas, “Ghana’s Long 1970s: Historical Contingency and the Dark Side of Nation Building.” Ghana Studies 27, no. 1 (2024): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3368/gs.27.1.1
Solène Froidevaux and Claire Nicolas, “Penser les corps sportifs en féministes,” Nouvelles Questions Féministes 43, no. 1 (2024): 12-25. https://doi.org/10.3917/nqf.431.0012
Claire Nicolas, “Amitiés féminines postcoloniales : le difficile dépassement des héritages impériaux (Suisse – Côte d’Ivoire, 1968-1975),” Monde(s) 2, no. 24 (2023): 163-182. https://doi.org/10.3917/mond1.224.0163
Claire Nicolas, “Physical Education in the Colonial Gold Coast: From a Civilizing Mission to ‘Useful Citizens’,” Social Sciences 10, no. 2 (2021):1‑17. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020077
Claire Nicolas, “Upstanding Youngsters: Ivorian Scouting and the Manufacture of a Subordinate Citizenship (1937–1979),” Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2, art. 568013 (2020): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2020.568013
Claire Nicolas, “De l’histoire comparée à la démarche multi-située : sur les traces des cadres sportifs africains,” Espaces et Sociétés 3, no. 178 (2019): 55-72. https://doi.org/10.3917/esp.178.0055
Claire Nicolas and Philippe Vonnard, “Ohene Djan. A Pan-Africanist activist taking over FIFA?,” Staps 3, no. 125 (2019): 49-68 (French and English). https://doi.org/10.3917/sta.125.0049
Claire Nicolas, “Des corps connectés : les Ghana Young Pioneers, tête de proue de la mondialisation du nkrumahisme (1960-1966),” Politique Africaine 3, no. 147 (2017): 87-107. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.147.0087
Georgia Cervin, Claire Nicolas, Sylvain Dufraisse, Anaïs Bohuon and Grégory Quin, “Gymnastics’ Centre of Gravity: the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, its Governance and the Cold War, 1956–1976”, Sport in History 3, no. 37 (2017): 309-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2017.1363081
Claire Nicolas, Thomas Riot and Nicolas Bancel, “Afrique 50 : Le cri anticolonialiste de René Vauthier,” Décadrages, no. 29-30 (2015): 12-30. https://doi.org/10.4000/decadrages.785
Book Chapters
Claire Nicolas, “Honors and Dishonors: Table Tennis Champions Representing Ghana Abroad.” In Beyond National Allegiances: Circulation, Collaboration, and Identities in the Global Search of Soft Power, 1800-2000, edited by Sylvia Dümmer Scheel, Charlotte Faucher and Camila Gatica Mizala (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press,2024) : 160-177. Open Access
Claire Nicolas, “La mission civilisatrice par corps : genre, « race » et éducation physique en Côte d’Ivoire (1940-1945)”. In L’école en mutation : politiques et dynamiques scolaires en Afrique (années 1940-1980), edited by Pierre Guidi, Jean-Luc Martineau and Florence Wenzek (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2024): 51-64.
Claire Nicolas, “From Handball Courts to Ministries, the Cousins of Côte d’Ivoire,” In Histories of Women’s Work in Global Sport. A Man’s World?, edited by Georgia Cervin and Claire Nicolas (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019): 217-244.
Florys Castan-Vicente, Claire Nicolas and Georgia Cervin, “Women in Sport Organisations: Historiographical and Epistemological challenges,” in Histories of Women’s Work in Global Sport. A Man’s World?, edited by Georgia Cervin and Claire Nicolas (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019): 17-48.
Georgia Cervin and Claire Nicolas, “Introduction”. in Histories of Women’s Work in Global Sport. A Man’s World?, edited by Georgia Cervin and Claire Nicolas (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019): 1-17.
Claire Nicolas, “The Ghana Young Pioneers: Intertwining global connections to build a Pan-Africanist youth”. In Beyond Boycotts. Sport during Cold War in Europe, edited by Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti and Grégory Quin (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017): 157-177.
Book Reviews
Claire Nicolas, “Sororité et colonialisme : Françaises et Africaines au temps de la guerre froide (1944-1962), un livre de Pascale Barthélémy,” RevueAlarmer, 2023. Online.
Claire Nicolas, “Rillon Ophélie, Le genre de la lutte : Une autre histoire du Mali contemporain (1956-1991). Paris: ENS éditions, 2022, 245 p., 22 €”, 20 & 21. Revue d’histoire. 20 & 21 Revue d’Histoire 3, no. 155 (2022), XII-XII. https://doi.org/10.3917/vin.155.0217l .
Claire Nicolas, “Anne Hugon (2020) – Être mère en situation coloniale (Gold Coast, années 1910-1950)”, Revue d’histoire Contemporaine De l’Afrique, no. 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e512
Claire Nicolas, “Cooper Frederick, Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 320 p., 2nd Edition, 28 €”, 20 & 21. Revue d’histoire 4, no. 148 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3917/vin.148.0187
Claire Nicolas, “AHLMAN (Jeffrey S.) Living with Nkrumahism. Nation, State and Pan-Africanism in Ghana”, Politique africaine 2, no. 150 (2018): 203-204. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.150.0203
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