Faculty Book Talk with Dr. Miranda Spieler, 10/30
48 Professors Row
Join us and the Center for Public History on October 30 at noon to hear Dr. Miranda Spieler discuss her new book.
Miranda Spieler is an historian of France and the French overseas empire. Her areas of expertise include European legal history, slavery and emancipation, the history of French Guiana and the Caribbean, policing and carceral systems, human rights, and the history of Paris.
She is joining us to discuss her new book, Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories (Harvard, May 2025), a biographical study of enslaved people who lived in France's capital city between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. She pieces together vivid, granular portraits of men, women and children who came from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean, revealing their strategies and hiding places, their family histories and relationships to well-known Enlightenment figures.
All are welcome. for questions, contact cph@tufts.edu.
