Frederick Cooper (History, NYU)
Mamadou Diouf (Institute of African Studies, Columbia)
Mark Mazower (History, Columbia)
Gregory Mann (History, Columbia)

Frederick Cooper’s Citizenship between Empire and Nation (Princeton UP, 2014) examines momentous changes in notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state, and empire in France and French Africa in a time of acute uncertainty about the future of a world that had earlier been divided into colonial empires.

Frederick Cooper is a Professor of History at New York University and has been visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the École Normale Supérieure, and the Université de Paris VII. His many books include Colonialism in Question and Empires in World History (Princeton).

Co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française and Institute of African Studies