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JP Daughton
Department of History
Office: (650) 725-1320
daughton@stanford.eduField: Late Modern European History, with particular interest in nineteenth and twentieth-century France and the history of French colonialism and imperialism.
Research Interests: Modern French political and cultural history; Colonialism and Imperialism; religious missionaries; French republicanism; French national identity; Indochina, Madagascar, Tahiti and the Marquesas.
J.P. Daughton earned his Master’s degree in European Studies from Cambridge University (1994) and his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley (2002). His current project, Civilizing Missions: Missionaries, Republicans, and French Colonialism, 1885-1914, explores the political and cultural implications of conflict between religious missionaries and republican colonialists in Indochina, Madagascar, and French Polynesia. In addition to conducting archival research in France, Italy, and Tahiti, he was a visiting fellow in the Faculty of History at the National University of Vietnam, Hanoi. He was awarded the John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical Association in 2000, and received a J. William Fulbright fellowship for research in France, as well as dissertation fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson foundations.
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