Sarah Dunstan is Lecturer in the History of International Human Rights at the University of Glasgow, and her research seeks to understand how 19th and 20th century understandings of what it means to be human shaped ideas around human rights and citizenship rights. Her first book, Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War, maps collaborations between black activists in Africa, France and the United States over questions of human rights and citizenship from 1919 until 1962. Her current project is titled: “Crises of Man: Crafting Human Rights and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century” and is funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.
Martin Evans is a historian of empires whose work focuses on how empires begin, how they rule, how they are resisted, how they end and their complex aftermaths. His research focuses on the political, social and cultural consequences of empires through the example of the French Empire in general and modern Algeria and modern Morocco in particular. He co-curated the exhibition 'Paris-Londres. Music Migrations. 1962-89' which ran at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris, France between 12 March 2019 and 5 January 2020 and attracted 117,000 visitors, and is currently completing a research monograph with Yale University Press on modern Morocco.
Annette Joseph-Gabriel is John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. She conducts research and teaches courses on race, gender, and citizenship in France, the Caribbean, and Africa. She is the author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press 2020), published in France as Imaginer la libération: Des femmes noires face à l'empire (Éditions Rot-Bo-Krik 2023) and her current book project examines what writings by enslaved children can teach us about history and narrative.
Julian Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at QMUL. He is the author of a number of books on modern French history covering the defeat of France in 1940, the German Occupation, homosexuality in postwar France, the ‘events’ of May 1968, a biography of Charles de Gaulle and most recently on the trial of Marshal Petain.
Roxanne Panchasi is Associate Professor in History at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in the study of a wide range of cultural objects and moments from the French past. Her first book, Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars, examines representations of the future and the futuristic between 1918 and 1939, and her current research focuses on the cultural politics of the "French" bomb after 1945, including the history and legacies of France's nuclear weapons detonations in Algeria and Maohi Nui (French Polynesia) from the early 1960s through the mid-1990s. She is also the founding host of New Books in French Studies a podcast channel on the New Books Network that she launched in 2013.
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