Libby Thompson

Associate Professor of History

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6423

Address:
PO Box 400180
Levering Hall, 208
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4180

Research Interests

I am now conducting a comparative study of statebuilding and citizenship in the late French empire, roughly from the 1890s to the 1950s. I will use comparisons among the Levant, North Africa, West Africa, and Indochina to problematize conceptual boundaries that have divided the histories of metropole and colony, of the East and the West, and of colonial and postcolonial eras.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Harvard University
• Master of International Affairs (MIA), Columbia University
• Master of Philosophy (MPHIL), Columbia University
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Columbia University