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
Parr Rosalind, Claire Nicolas, Agnieska Sobocinska, Darshi Thoradeniya and Jana Tschurenev. “III. Scales.” Journal of Global History. Preview (2026). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022826100606
Nicolas, Claire. “From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth-Century Global Sports.” History (2026): Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.70137
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