Dr. Joseph Peterson
Assistant Professor
Bio
Joseph Peterson is a historian of Modern France, imperialism, and religion, with an interest in the history of Muslim-Christian contact. At USM, he teaches courses in World and European history.
Book: Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria (Oxford UP, 2022) Open Access version:
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
鈥淔rom P猫re-Lachaise to the Creole Blues: The Fight for Anti-Racist Collective Memories in 19th-Century France and Today,鈥� (Age of Revolutions, February 2024).
鈥淗onor, Excrement, Ethnography: Colonial Knowledge Between Missionary and Militaire in French Algeria,鈥� (Journal of Modern History, March 2021).
鈥溾�楢dmiration鈥or all that is sincerely religious鈥�: Louis Veuillot and Catholic Representations of Islam and Empire in July Monarchy France,鈥� French Historical Studies (Aug-Sept. 2017).
- PHD - Yale University (2017)
- MA - Clemson University (2010)
- BA - Bob Jones University (2007)