Florian Bobin is a PhD candidate in History at the Université de Sherbrooke and in Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux (Les Afriques dans le monde / LAM research institute). His initial research focuses on the formation of the postcolonial state in Senegal and its modalities of political violence, with particular attention to repression, surveillance, and the management of dissent. More broadly, his work examines militant circulations, revolutionary imaginaries, and transnational practices of political contestation across the Atlantic world— particularly Senegambia, the United States, and England—during the “global 1960s.” His scholarship lies at the intersection of political history, intellectual history, and archival studies, with a focus on the material conditions through which revolutionary movements produced, circulated, and preserved political knowledge.

He is the author of Cette si longue quête. Vie et mort d’Omar Blondin Diop (Dakar: Jimsaan, 2024), a biographical and archival study of the Senegalese revolutionary intellectual Omar Blondin Diop. He has also been responsible for the classification and organization of the literary archival collection of the Senegalese writer Ken Bugul, contributing to his work on archival preservation, memory, and postcolonial cultural production. His current research engages directly with revolutionary archives produced in Africa and the Atlantic world, including the Kwame Ture Papers, where he serves as head classifier.