Judith Surkis is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University and specializes in modern European history, with an emphasis on France and the French Empire, gender and sexuality, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is finishing a book, “Scandalous Subjects: Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930.”
Judith Surkis
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A Muslim Future to Come?
The devastating attacks of November 13 on Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements viciously targeted the “progressive” heart of the city. When I am there, that is where I live. Like many other inhabitants and observers, I find it difficult to comprehend why the militants assaulted this historically working-class, vibrant, multicultural, and youthful neighborhood—admittedly often characterized […]
