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: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/103173
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“From Père-Lachaise to the Creole Blues: The Fight for Anti-Racist Collective Memories in 19th-Century France and Today,” (Age of Revolutions, February 2024).
“Honor, Excrement, Ethnography: Colonial Knowledge Between Missionary and Militaire in French Algeria,” (Journal of Modern History, March 2021).
“‘Admiration…for all that is sincerely religious’: Louis Veuillot and Catholic Representations of Islam and Empire in July Monarchy France,” French Historical Studies (Aug-Sept. 2017).
- PHD - Yale University (2017)
- MA - Clemson University (2010)
- BA - Bob Jones University (2007)