Dominique Kalifa (12 September 1957 – 12 September 2020) was a French historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he was director of the Centre of 19th Century History[1][2] and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A student of Michelle Perrot, he specialised in the history of crime, transgression, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th France and Europe. He also taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) from 2008 to 2015, and was several times "Invited professor" at NYU and "Visiting Scholar" at the University of Saint Andrews.