About Sarah Miles

I am a historian of 20th century France and the francophone world interested in the social history of ideas, empire and decolonization, and print and reading culture. Having graduated with my PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I'm now a postdoctoral fellow with the CRIDAQ and the University of Québec at Montreal. My current work focuses on transnational leftist networks and print media as part of revolutionary anticolonialism in the francophone world, particularly focused on Québec, France, and Algeria.

Sarah Miles is a historian of 20th century France and the francophone world. More about her can be found at sarahkmiles.wordpress.com.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Sarah:

Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

November 6, 2024

The Suicide Archive

Doyle D. Calhoun
Hosted by Sarah Miles

A note about content: This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of slavery, colonization and empire. Please use your…

Amanda Shoaf Vincent, "Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

October 18, 2024

Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City

Amanda Shoaf Vincent
Hosted by Sarah Miles

In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professional…

Darcie Fontaine, "Modern France and the World" (Routledge, 2023)

August 2, 2023

Modern France and the World

Darcie Fontaine
Hosted by Sarah Miles
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As she taught university-level courses on modern French history, Darcie Fontaine felt like she could not find a textbook that provided an up-to-date n…

Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

July 8, 2023

Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France

Nicole Bauer
Hosted by Sarah Miles
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Between September 1793 and July 1794, the French politicians and even the general public seemed positively overcome by the urge to denounce their peer…

Joseph W. Peterson, "Sacred Rivals: Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria" (Oxford UP, 2022)

March 14, 2023

Sacred Rivals

Joseph W. Peterson
Hosted by Sarah Miles

Upon the French invasion of Algeria in 1830, the territory quickly became a placeholder for French dreams, debates, and experiments in social engineer…