Co-directed with S. Donato, In the Shadow. Women on the Move, 2024.

Monography:

Marie Ruiz. Female Emigration Societies and the New World (1860-1914),Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Preface: Philippa Levine (University of Texas at Austin).

Educted volumes:

Bénédicte Miyamoto & Marie Ruiz (eds.). Art & Migration, Revisioning the Borders of Community, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.

Marie Ruiz (eds.).Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History. In Memoriam Eric Richards,London: Anthem Press, 2020.

Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, Immanuel Ness (eds.). TThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises,Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Marie Ruiz (ed.). International Migrations in the Victorian Era,Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Edited special issue:

Marie Ruiz & Mélanie Grué (eds.),« Documents in Women’s History »,Women’s History, Women’s History Network, vol. 2, n° 8, Summer 2017.

Peer-reviewed publications :

Articles:

1. «Identity in Transit: Women Migrants’ Identity Documentation in the 19^th-Century British Empire, from Application Forms to Reference Letters », Women’s History Review (forthcoming in2026).

2. « Maria Rye and hegemonic femininity. Case study of a Victorian migration broker and actress of social change », Journal of International Migration & Integration (2024).

3. WithBénédicte Miyamoto, «‘Les artistes sont la quintessence du paradigme migratoire.’ Le pouvoir de l’art d’ébranler les frontières politiques », CYCNOS (2022).
4. « Migration infrastructure and brokerage in Victorian female emigration societies », Journal of Migration History, Vol 7 issue 1 (April 2021).

Book chapters:

1. « Letter writing through the Empire: assisted migrants and women’s emigration societies (1860-1903) », in Josephine McDonagh, Charlotte Sussman & Hadji Bakara (dirs.) Migrations in Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025) (in press).
2. « Art and Migration: a road map to understand the construction of migration crises », in Aline Hemond & Fabienne de Pierrebourg (eds.) Artistes-migrants et frontière : agir par l'art en diaspora, Presses de l’INALCO (forthcoming in2026).
3. Biographical entry onMary Hewetson in an edited volume on unknown stories of women migrants(in progress, accepted by the editors).
4. « 12 janvier 1863 : la ruée vers l'or d'épouses britanniques », in LABEX EHNE, Chroniques de l’Europe(Éditions du CNRS, 2022), 106-107.
5. « Sociétés d’émigration de femmes et impérialisme au féminin (1860-1914) », in Virginie Chaillou et Françoise Lejeune (eds.) Circulations coloniales: une lecture genrée, Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2020).
6. Bénédicte Miyamoto & Marie Ruiz. «Revisioning Art and Migration » (p. 1-31), in Art and Migration. Revisioning the Borders of Community. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
7. Bénédicte Miyamoto & Marie Ruiz. «Reflexions on Positionality » (p. 297-305), in Art and Migration. Revisioning the Borders of Community. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
8. « Eric Richards, Positionality and Migration History », in Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History. In Memoriam Eric Richards. Londres: Anthem Press, 2020, p. 3-25.
9. Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz & Immanuel Ness, «Migration Crises: Definitions, Critiques, and Global Contexts » (p. 1-20) in The Handbook of Migration Crises, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
10. « Nineteenth Century British Female Emigration Societies » in Immanuel Ness & Zack Cope (dirs.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2^nde édition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, May2019, 1-13.
11. « La statistique au service d’une pensée binaire dans l’Angleterre victorienne: genre, émigration féminine et recensements », in Epistémologies du genre. Croisement des disciplines, intersections des rapports de domination, Lyon: Editions de l'ENS, 2018, 142-151.
12. « Introduction » (p. 1-30) in Marie Ruiz (dir.) International Migrations in the Victorian Era, Leiden: Brill, 2018.
13. « Conclusion » (p. 555-562) in Marie Ruiz (dir.) International Migrations in the Victorian Era, Leiden: Brill, 2018.
14. Marie Ruiz & Mélanie Grué, «Documents in Women’s History » (p. 1-5) in Women’s History, Women’s History Network, vol. 2, n° 8, été 2017.
15. « Filer à l'anglaise », in Julie Le Gac & Fabrice Virgili (eds.), L’Europe des femmes XVIIIe-XXIe, Paris: Perrin, 2017, 256-259.

Policy briefs

1. Ruiz M., S. Donato. «Women migrant workers’ (WMWS) deskilling ». Open Research Europe, 2024.
2. Ruiz M., S. Donato. «Reception centers and practices for women migrants ». Open Research Europe, 2024.
3. S. Donato, Ruiz M. «Gender mainstreaming and gender-disaggregated data on migrant women ». Open Research Europe, 2024.

Recensions d’ouvrages

1. « Victoria Bates, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England. Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts », Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire, n° 52, 2021.
2. « Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America », Cercles, 2021.
3. « A. James Hammerton, Migrants of the British Diaspora since the 1960s: Stories from Modern Nomads », Reviews in History, August 2018.
4. « Florence Binard, Marc Calvini-Lefebvre & Guyonne Leduc (dir.), Femmes, sexe, genre dans l'aire anglophone. Stigmatisation, invisibilisation et combats », Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire n° 48, 2018.

Conferences and seminars

1. WithStellamarina Donato, « Language, Barrier and Belonging: Migrant Women’s Strategies for Learning in Marginalized Contexts ».IMISCOE Conference: Language Diversity, Education and Learning in the Context of Migration and Diaspora, 13–14 November 2025, Iscte, Lisbon(accepted).
2. « Educating for the British Empire: Imperial Instruction for British Women at the Swanley Horticultural College and the MacDonald Institute ». Conference Schooling for Empire, c. 1750-1945, Institute of Historical Research, London, 20 June 2025.
3. Invited discussant(round table): « Teaching migration history in an age of border restriction » Raphael Samuel History Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, 5 June 2025.
4. Guest speaker (online introduction to conference) : « Gender Perspectives and Social Change », University of Tirana's International Conference, Albania, 6 May2025.
5. « Qualification credentials and women’s migration in the 19th century British Empire », European Social Science History Conference, Leiden, 26 March 2025.
6. Guest speaker: « Letter writing through the Empire: assisted migrants and women’s emigration societies (1860-1903) ». Migration in Literature workshop, University of Chicago, 5-7 December 2024.
7. « Women on the Move: intermediaries of migration. Schools for women migrants in 19th century Britain »,International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH) conference, Tokyo, Japan, August 2024.
8. With Tatjana Šarić « WEMov Tracing Documents on Transatlantic Women’s Migrations », 22nd conference Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA), Lancaster UK, July 2024.
9. Guest speaker: « Women on the Move : un réseau et un documentaire », colloque « La question migratoire dans les sociétés post-industrielles : regards croisés sur l’eurorégion Nord-Transmanche », MESHS, Sciences Po Lille, 26 March2024.
10. Guest speaker: « Training immigrants : the MacDonald Institute of Domestic Science », séminaire Rural History Roundtable, Guelph University, 28 June2023.
11. Guest speaker: « Enseigner l’économie domestique aux migrantes : le cas du MacDonald Institute », séminaire laboratoire junior ERLIS, université de Caen, 13 April2023.
12. Guest speaker: « Colonial training centers for Victorian migrants to the British Empire: a gender perspective », WEMov Summer School, Paris, 10 June2022.
13. Guest speaker: « Migrant women's forgotten contribution to the building of Europe ». International Women's Day« Femmes & Migrations », Centre de Documentation Sur les Migrations Humaines - CDMH inDudelange, Luxembourg (15 March 2022).
14. « Art and Migration: a road map to understand how migration crises are constructed », conference« Artistes-Migrants et Frontières. The Border Crossed Us », Museum Quai Branly, 25 November 2021.
15. Guest speaker: « Framing Victorian migrants’ adaptation and socialization within the British Empire: exclusive education in colonial training centers ». Bulgarian Academy of Science, « Between the Worlds: Migrants, Margins, and Social Environment », Sofia, 1-2 December 2021.
16. Invited discussant(round table): « Mémoire, culture matérielle et archives des migrations et de l’exil », conference #ECOS, Paris City Hall, 18 October 2021.
17. « From city life to rural life: colonial training for British gentlewomen emigrants at Swanley Horticultural College, England, and McDonald Institute, Guelph, Canada ». Rural Women's Studies Conference, Guelph, Canada, 11 May2021.
18. « Female migrants’ scientific education: the case of colonial training centers in Britain and Canada », Hidden Histories: Women and Science in the Twentieth Century, University of Bucharest & Heidelberg, 7 May2021.
19. Guest speaker:« Training emigrants to the New World: schools of horticulture and agriculture in Britain and Canada », Séminaire Franco-britannique d’Histoire, Sorbonne, 11 February2021.
20. Guest speaker: « Women on the Move: invisible migrant workers in European history », Séminaire Axe Histoire du Politiquedu LARCA, université Paris Cité, 14 December 2020.
21. With Bénédicte Miyamoto « ‘Les artistes sont la quintessence du paradigme migratoire'. Représenter l'ébranlement des frontières politiques », Frontière(s) et espace(s)-frontière(s) dans l’aire anglophone, Université Côte d’Azur, 10-11 December 2020.
22. « A woman who is to be of practical use in the colonies must be prepared », North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS), Vancouver, 14-17 November 2019.
23. Guest speaker: « Men and women of good character and capacity: British colonial training centers at the turn of the twentieth century », workshop« Mobility and capabilities », Cambridge University, 5 July2019.
24. Guest speaker: « Unmarried gentlewomen’s emigrant letters to British female emigration societies (1860s) ». Workshop « Migration and Gender »,Cambridge University, 8-10 November 2018.
25. With Claire Deligny, « The ‘Bastilles of Australia’? a Metropolitan Gentlewoman's Perception of Colonial Lunatic Asylums ». ConferenceBritain and the World, London, 22-24 June2016.
26. « La statistique au service d’une pensée binaire dans l’Angleterre victorienne : genre, émigration féminine et recensements ». ConferenceGenERe, Le(s) genre(s) Définitions, modèles, épistémologie, ENS de Lyon, 17-18 December2015.
27. « De l’enlèvement des Sabines à la migration des Anglaises : construction de l’identité féminine au prisme de l’Empire britannique (1860-1914) ». Workshop of Flora Tristan network, Genre et mobilités dans les mondes anglophones, universitiesParis Diderot & Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, 9 November2015.
28. « ‘Women are the real builders of Empire’: l’émigration organisée des Anglaises vers l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande (1860-1914) ». LabEx EHNE conference, Les circulations européennes à l’âge des Empires coloniaux au XIXe siècle : une lecture genrée, université de Nantes, 4-5 December2014.
29. « What could they do with their ‘unsealable goods’? Organising the transaction of English Women to the Australian colonies (1860-1914) », Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Imperial and World History Seminar: Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop, London, 27 October 2014.
30. « Australia: an Alternative Space for Victorian ‘Surplus Women’ ». Colloque Alternative Spaces, KIASH Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Kent, Reid Hall, Paris, 16 June2014.
31. « ‘Surplus Women’: Emigration as the 19th century Solution to Female Overpopulation », séminaire Victorian Persistence, université Paris-Diderot, 17 April 2013.
32. « Les sociétés d’émigration féminines dans l’Angleterre victorienne : frontière et marginalisation dans une société androcentrée », Doctoral workshopCIRLEP, La Marge : Espace de Libertés et de Transgressions, université de Reims, 23 November2012.
33. « ‘Des individus de sexe féminin qui posent problème’: les sociétés d’émigration et les célibataires des classes moyennes dans l’Angleterre victorienne », Doctoral workshopLARCA, université Paris Diderot, March2012.

Discussant

Discussant for guest lectures organized by the international networkWomen on the Move (2020-25) : Léo Lucassen, Floya Anthias, Parvati Raghuram, Marlou Schrover.

Panel chair: conference« La question migratoire dans les sociétés post-industrielles : regards croisés sur l’eurorégion Nord-Transmanche », MESHS, Sciences Po Lille, 26 March 2024. Panel including Noura Amer (CESCuP, Université Libre de Bruxelles) ; Elsa Maarawi (CURAPP-ESS (université Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens) ; Yoko Iwashita (CECILLE, Université de Lille) and Jihan Safar (OMAM (MSH-ULB)

SeminarIn Search of Britain (Amiens)

31 January 2024: Jim McAloon (Victoria University of Wellington).

15 March 2023: Julia Stryker (University of Texas at Austin

16 March 2022: Stefanie Shackleton (University of Texas at Austin)

18 September 2019: Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam University)

13 March 2019: Maia Silber (Oxford University)

5 April 2018: Kathrin Levitan (College of William & Mary)

4 December 2017 : Myriam Boussahba Bravard (université de Paris)

Discussant duringWomen on the Move's Summer Schools (université Paris Cité, June 2022): Marko Lovec (University of Ljubjana - 8 June 2022) et Justyna Bell (Olso MET - 9 June 2022).

Panel chair : « JE Mobility and capabilities » (Cambridge University) - 5 July 2019.

Seminar discussantVictorian Persistence (université Paris Cité) - 12 June 2019 : Richard Bates (University of Nottingham)

Discussant at seminar Franco-britannique d’Histoire (Sorbonne université) – 28 February 2019 : Jill Bender (University of North Carolina)

Panel chair :Workshop « The Home Rule Issue » (université de Rouen) - 25 January 2019 : Catriona McDonald (University of Glasgow) and Paul O'Leary (Aberystwyth University).

1. Organization of 6 to 13 conferences per year and 2 summer schools (Paris and Bosnia) within the framework of the COST networkWomen on the Move(2020–25): 30 in total over the project period.
2. Organization of an exhibition at the European Parliament (Brussels); Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi, Georgia; University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens; Ethnographic Museum of Sofia, Bulgaria; University of Nicosia, Cyprus; and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
3. Screening and discussion of the documentary filmIn the Shadow. Women on the Moveat the European Parliament (June 2025); Sciences Po Paris; ENS Ulm and ENS Saclay; United Nations University (Costa Rica); University of Iceland; UCD Dublin; Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi, Georgia; LUMSA, Rome; University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens; Université Paris Cité; Universities of Málaga and Córdoba, Spain; COST, Brussels; Universities of Lille and Avignon; the European Commission in Madrid; the European Parliament in Dublin, Bucharest (Romania), Vienna (Austria), and Lisbon (Portugal); the French Embassy in Costa Rica; and the National University of Costa Rica (UNA).
4. International workshop, « A History of Science and Technology in Great Britain », Amiens, 10 December 2021
5. International conference« Colonial and Wartime Migration, 1815-1918 », Amiens, 13-14 September 2018. Keynote Speaker: Eric Richards:
6. Co-organization of international conference« Windrush (1948) and Rivers of Blood (1968): Legacy and Assessment » withTrevor Harris, Amiens, 24-25 May2018. Keynote Speakers: Trevor Phillips, OBE and Patrick Vernon, OBE.
7. Seminar co-convenorIn Search of Britainsince2017, Amiens, withTrevor Harris, thenMélanie Torrent.

Organisation of twointernational Summer schools(Paris 2022 and Bosnia 2023) gathering MA and PhD students from over 20 nationalities every year.

Member of the PhD jury for Kieran Murphy, "French and British Policy and Culture in Egypt 1798–1841: The Reign of Muhammad Ali and the Eastern Crisis", defended on 13 December 2019. Thesis supervised by Andrekos Varnava (Flinders University) and Trevor Harris (University of Bordeaux).

2024: Reviewer of the PhD thesis of Mario Vecchi,Dorsetshire Refugees, not Immigrants. The Blandford Branch of the Colonisation Society and the 1849 Voyage of the Emigrant, May 2024. Thesis defended at the University of New England, Australia.

MA dissertations supervision

2025 – 2026 1 student in Teaching Master's degree (MEEF1)
2022 – 2023 1 student in Teaching Master's degree (MEEF1)
2022 – 2023 1 student in Research Master's degree (1st year)
2016 – 2022 1 student in Research Master's degree (1st and 2nd year)
2016 – 2021 9student in Teaching Master's degree (MEEF1)

Guest speaker to the panel « Masculin/Féminin, la place du genre ». CNRS Sciences & Citoyens, Amiens, France (March 2020).

Interviews:

Le Micro Francophone (Universidad Nacional du Costa Rica (UNA) - 2025: SpotifyandYoutube.

Women Moving On and Up(COST - Horizon Europe) - 2023.

Women in Science (COST - Horizon Europe) - 2022.

Women on the Move and the Making of Europe(COST - Horizon Europe) - 2021.

Women on the Move, réseau international sur l'histoire des migrations (Institut du Genre) - 2020: Youtube

Podcast series

Marie Ruiz & Stellamarina Donato. «Women on the Move». Spotify, 2024-25 (17 episodes of about 10mn).

Exhibitions

Virtual: Women migrants' objects of migration

Chronology of Women's Migration in Europe, WEMov

At the EU Parliament, Brussels 2024: Women on the Move

Guides tour

Women's Migration walking tour, Amiens

Reviewer/Evaluator for European projects

Horizon Europe - 2024
COST - 2020
ESF review panel member since 2020

Reviews of manuscripts and academic articles / Peer Reviews

Endeavor, Journal of Labor and Society (Wiley-Blackwell); Thomas Riggs & Company / Gale Cengage Learning; Diasporas, circulations, migrations, histoire; Immigrants & Minorities; Le Temps des Médias; Cycnos ; MIT Press; Manchester University Press; Routledge.

SAES
CRECIB
GenMig
WiRL
Institut du Genre
Mnemosyne
Women's History Network
British Scholar Society
Women also know history
Expertes
COST CA19112

Scientific committee member

Congress on Gender Studies CGS21

2025 : Erasmus Training at Høgskulen i Volda, Norway ;
2024 : Università di Roma LUMSA, Italy ;
2023 : Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland, 2023 ;
2021 : University Consortium of Pori, Finland.

Since January 2025: Elected Member of the Board of Directors (CA), UPJV

2020–2024: Elected Member of the Research Commission, UPJV

2024: Member of the selection committee for an Associate Professor(Maître de conférences)position in British history, Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle

2023: Member of the selection committee for an Associate Professor(Maître de conférences)position in British history, Université Saint-Étienne

Since 2023: Co-Director of the Master MEEF English programme (PGCE), UPJV

Since 2022: Coordinator for Student Mobility, Faculty of Languages, UPJV

Since 2021: Erasmus Coordinator for English-speaking destinations, Faculty of Languages, UPJV

2019: Member of the selection committee for an Associate Professor(Maître de conférences)position in British civilisation (Section 11), Université Paris Cité

Since 2018: Elected Member of the Board of the CORPUS UR UPJV 4295 research unit (Treasurer, then Partnership Officer)

2018–2020: Coordinator for British history, Anglophone Studies Department, UPJV

2011–2013: Elected Member of the Research Council, Université Paris Diderot

2008–2013: Certified TOEIC Test Administrator (ETS France)

2011–2013: Doctoral Student Representative, LARCA (UMR-8225)

2012–2013: Co-organiser of LARCA Doctoral workshop (2012 and 2013)