Emmanuel Dalle Mulle is Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid and Research Associate at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. He is specialised in the history and politics of nationalism in Europe in the 20th and early 21st centuries. His current project, 'From Heterogeneity to Diversity: A History of the Geographical and Semantic Evolution of the Concept of Minority, 1930s-1990s', examines shifting understandings of difference in Europe and North America in the second half of the 20th century. He previously worked at the Geneva Graduate Institute as a lecturer, researcher and coordinator of the SNSF-funded project The Myth of Homogeneity: Minority Protection and Assimilation in Western Europe, 1919-1939. He also taught at the University of Geneva and held visiting researcher positions at KU Leuven, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), the London School of Economics, Boston University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His book ‘The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland’ won the 2018 Latsis Prize for the University of Geneva. His research interests include nationalism, majority-minority relations, human rights and the welfare state.
Books
- Dalle Mulle, E., The Myth of Homogeneity: Minority Questions in Interwar Western Europe, under review.
- Dalle Mulle, E., Rodogno, D., Bieling, M. (eds.) (2023) Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Dalle Mulle, E. (2017)The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland. London: Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Articles (Selection)
- Dalle Mulle, E. (2026). The Switch: How Nationality Questions Morphed into Minority Questions and Were Confined to Eastern Europe in the Process. Nationalities Papers, 1–21.
- Dalle Mulle, E. (2026). The Improbable Minority: Flanders and the Fluidity of Minority and Nationality Questions, 1919–1944. Contemporary European History, 35, e14.
- Dalle Mulle, E., Prott, V., & Ambrosino, A. (2025). The Paris System in Western Europe: Minorities, Self-Determination, and the Management of Difference in the “Civilized West”. Nationalities Papers, 53(3), 533–553.
- Dalle Mulle, E., & Ambrosino, A. (2023). The 1939 Option Agreement and the ‘Consistent Ambivalence’ of Fascist Policies towards Minorities in the Italian New Provinces. The Historical Journal, 66(4), 887–908.
- Dalle Mulle, E., & Bieling, M. (2023). Autonomy over Independence: Self-Determination in Catalonia, Flanders and South Tyrol in the Aftermath of the Great War. European History Quarterly, 53(4), 641–663.
- Dalle Mulle, E., & Kernalegenn, T. (2023). The Left(s) and Nationalism(s) in Contemporary Western Europe. Nations and Nationalism, 29(2), 405–413.
- Dalle Mulle, E., & Serrano, I. (2023). Universalism Within: The Tension between Universalism and Community in Progressive Ideology. Nations and Nationalism, 29(2), 449–466.
- Dalle Mulle, E., Bieling, M., (2021), The Ambivalent Legacy of Minority Protection for Human Rights, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue suisse d’histoire, 71/2, 267-290.
- Abts, K., Dalle Mulle, E., van Kessel, S., Michel, E. (2021), The Welfare Agenda of the Populist Radical Rights in Western Europe:
Combining Welfare Chauvinism, Producerism and Populism, Swiss Political Science Review, 27(1), 21-40.