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Prostitution and Colonization: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco 1830-1962

Wednesday, September 20
7:00 PM
Olin Rice 250
Christelle Taraud

taraudChristelle Taraud teaches History in Paris for Columbia University, Vassar, Wesleyan College, the Institute of European Studies, Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. She is Associate Researcher at the GTMS lab center (Genèse et Transformation des Mondes Sociaux), a joint research center of the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). She leads a research seminar on Inheritance and Identity in the Mediterranean.

She studies the role and intervention of colonial French administration in the control of prostitution and the role played by prostitutes in North Africa with various groups.


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