Terrence Peterson (Fellow, 麻豆高清 CISAC)
Speaker(s): Terrence Peters
Topic: TBA
Terrence Peterson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC for 2015-2016, where he is working on the development of French and international counterinsurgency theories during the period of decolonization. He earned a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. His dissertation, entitled 鈥淐ounterinsurgent Bodies: Social Welfare and Psychological Warfare in French Algeria, 1956-1962,鈥 examines the French Army鈥檚 efforts to counter a nationalist revolution by combining population development projects and mass psychology techniques to 鈥榤odernize鈥 Algerian Muslims and remake them in the image of Frenchmen. His current research focuses on the intersections between the Cold War, decolonization conflicts, and the development of counterinsurgency doctrines. In addition to several articles under way, his article 鈥淭he 鈥楯ewish Question鈥 and the 鈥業talian Peril鈥: Vichy, Italy, and the Jews of Tunisia, 1940-1942鈥 appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History in April 2015.