The board

Gwenaël Guyon

Gwenaël Guyon is associate professor in Law at the French Military Academy Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, on secondment from the University Paris Cité. He is Director of the Law and Ethics Department at CReC Saint-Cyr (the Academy’s research center). He studied at the University of Rennes, the University of Cardiff and the University of Glasgow.

He teaches courses on comparative military justice and comparative history of military justice to French and international cadets. His research is currently focused on military justice in wartime and on the history of French military justice.

In 2021, he founded the International Military Justice Forum.

He is a Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University and an International Research Fellow at the National Institute of Military Justice in Washington D.C.

Evert Kleynhans

Evert Kleynhans is associate professor within the Department of Military History of the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University.

His doctorate focused on the Axis and Allied maritime operations around southern Africa during the Second World War – an area that previously received scant historical attention. His main historical interests revolve around the South African participation in both world wars, counterinsurgency warfare in Africa, access to military archives, as well as the broader influence of geography on warfare.

He is currently researching on South African military justice during the First World War.

Stéphane Baudens

Stéphane Baudens is associate professor in law at the French Military Academy Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. He is the head of the CReC Saint-Cyr.

His research interests are focused on Military law, Constitutional law, and Homeland Security. He is the Director of the Chair « Homeland Security » at CReC Saint-Cyr.

Dr. Mariella Terzoli

Dr. Mariella Terzoli earned her PhD in contemporary history in 2023 at the University of Milan in cotutelle with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research focused on Italians who fought in Indochina within the French Foreign Legion (1946-1956), from enlistment to the end of their contracts. She subsequently began a one-year postdoc at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” on the production and circulation of trade guns from Europe to Central Africa in the nineteenth century. She has recently begun a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris within the ERC Advanced Grant ‘The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945’. She investigates the interwar development of air strategies and, in parallel, the links between the Allies’ bombardment and Fascist Italy’s home front during the Second World War.

Anna La Grange

Anna La Grange is a DFG Military Cultures of Violence research group member and a PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam’s Global History chair. Her research critically examines excessive violence by white South African troops during the first half of the twentieth century from a postcolonial and international law perspective. La Grange has published several articles and contributed book chapters in various international contexts. She has secured funding from several organisations to support her research, including the DFG, Erasmus+, EDUC, and the DAAD. She has participated in conferences, colloquiums, workshops, and seminars in Germany, England, Cyprus, South Africa, France, and Poland. She is also co-editing a volume exploring military encounters between Italy and South Africa in the twentieth century with Prof. Evert Kleynhans and Dr. Mariella Terzoli.