Dr. Todd Shepard is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents (St. Martin’s, 2014) and The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Cornell, 2006). This presentation is drawn from his latest book Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 (U of Chicago Press, 2017).

Sponsored by Department of French & Italian, Contemporary French Civilization, Department of History, School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies & The Center for Middle Eastern Studies