Herrick Chapman
Professor of History at NYU
Herrick Chapman is a modern European historian working mainly on the social, economic, and political history of twentieth-century France. Since 1992 he has been teaching at the Institute of French Studies and the Department of History at New York University, where his courses have included the study of slavery, emancipation, and race relations in the French Caribbean. Much of his work focuses on the uses of state authority in French society, and from that optic he has written on labor relations and business enterprise, gender and the welfare state, shopkeepers and anti-tax rebellions, and racism and discrimination. His latest book, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic (Harvard University Press, 2018), explores how the French rebuilt their economy and their polity after the Second World War. He is beginning new work on the impact of colonial wars on metropolitan France. Chapman also serves as the longtime editor of the journal, French Politics, Culture & Society, which has been jointly sponsored by NYU and Harvard University since 1999. He has traveled widely in Europe, Latin America, and in several countries once part of the former French empire.
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