My work is explicitly framed as a history of the present, namely an effort to understand how and why Islamophobia in France—and beyond—is bound up with fantasies about not only religion and race, but also gender and sex. There is a longer colonial history to to..
Judith Surkis
Judith Surkis is Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is author of Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria 1830-1930 (Cornell, 2019), Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell, 2006), and articles on critical theory and historical methodology in the American Historical Review, Public Culture, and the History of the Present. She is currently working on a new book project entitled, The Intimate life of International Law: Children, Development, and Decolonization.