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First Name
Caroline
Last Name
Sequin
Country
United States
State
Affiliation
Lafayette College
Website URL
https://sites.lafayette.edu/sequinc/
Keywords
modern France, French Empire, gender, sexuality, race, Atlantic world, prostitution, colonialism, cultural history, social history, nineteenth century, twentieth century
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

I am an associate professor of Modern European History at Lafayette College, PA. My award-winning book, Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2024) uncovers the intertwined history of sexual and racial politics in France and colonial Senegal.

I am currently at work on two book projects. One of them explores the history of Franco-colonial marriages and family migration in the twentieth century. The other pertains to history of the French war brides who married American soldiers during and at the end of the First and Second World Wars.

Recent Publications

Caroline Sequin, Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).

Caroline Sequin, “Marie Piquemal, the ‘Colonial Madam’: Brothel Prostitution, Migration, and the Making of Whiteness in Interwar Dakar,” Journal of Women’s History 33, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 118-141.

Caroline Sequin, “White French Women, Colonial Migration, and Sexual Labor Between Metropole and Colony,” in Dagmar Herzog and Chelsea Schields, eds. The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Caroline Sequin, The Moving Contours of Colonial Prostitution (Fort-de-France, Martinique, 1940-1947),” Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire 50.2 (November 2019): 19-36.

Caroline Sequin, “Les Contours mouvants de la prostitution coloniale, Fort-de-France, 1940-1947,” Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire 50.2 (November 2019): 19-36.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
France
Expertise by Geography
Africa, Caribbean, France
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Emancipation, Gender, Migration & Immigration, Race, Sexuality, Women