Guillaume Aubert
Contact:
gaubert@williams.edu
North Academic Building, Rm 224
597-3731
Office Hours:
Assistant Professor of History
B.A. and M.A.(1992 and 1993) Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
Ph.D. (2002) Tulane University
Research Interests:
Histories of concepts of race in the Americas, Europe, and West Africa
European-Indian encounters in North America
Comparative slavery
Selected Publications:
Articles & Essays:
"'The Blood of France': Race and Purity of Blood in the French Atlantic World," William and Mary Quarterly 61 (July 2004): 439-478.
"Coureurs de bois" and "Louisiana," in Bill Marshall, ed., France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (ABC-CLIO, 2005).
"'Des Colonies d’abomination, de vices et d'ordures’: Le contre-exemple Ibérique et la hantise du métissage dans le discours colonial" in Cécile Vidal, ed., L'Atlantique français, numéro special d’ Outre-Mers (forthcoming, 2008)
“Ovaries, Testicles, and the Gendered Constructions of Race in the French Enlightenment" in James Delbourgo and Maria Elena Martinez, eds. The Science of Color and Race in the Enlightenment, a special issue of Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming, 2008)