Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Miles
- Country
- United States
- State
- NC North Carolina
- skmiles@live.unc.edu
- Affiliation
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Website URL
- https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/sarah-miles/
- Keywords
- Global history, French history, Canadian history, Quebec, decolonization, francophone, Algeria, France, intellectual history, cultural history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
My name is Sarah Miles and I’m a PhD student at UNC, Chapel Hill. I did my Bachelor’s at the University of Oklahoma, also in history, and am passionate rather disparate things: the history of the left, the francophone world, Quebecois separatism, and shipwrecks.
My research focuses on the twentieth-century francophone world, focusing on the role of intellectuals, identity construction, and the left, with particular attention to how these were shaped by transnational exchange. In particular, my dissertation examines publication networks and the question of postcolonial commensurability among radical leftists in France, Quebec, Algeria, and the French Caribbean.
I am currently a teaching assistant, the co-editor of the student-run history journal Traces, and a (sometimes) writing assistant in the history department.
- Recent Publications
- “Watching May Unfurl in Quebec,” Tocqueville 21 Blog
- “For a Global Liberation: International Anti-Colonialism and the Construction of Quebecois National Identity in Parti Pris, 1963-1968,” Past Tense Journal
- “Decolonizing the Uncolonized: France, French Canadian Identity, and the Quebecois Nationalist Movement, 1945-1967,” University of Oklahoma Libraries Undergraduate Research Repository
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @Miles_SarahK
- Country Focus
- France, Canada, Algeria
- Expertise by Geography
- France, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Libraries & Archives, Politics
